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St. Joe’s clinic strives to help the community’s
“orphan” seniors
Dr. David Tal, Chief of Geriatric Services at St. Joe’s, strives to help patients including “orphan” seniors at our Elderly Community Health Services clinic.Photo credit: Greg Majster There are thousands of seniors living in the diverse communities surrounding St. Joseph’s ...
St. Joe’s aims for safe use of opioids in
pain management
A nurse at St. Joseph’s Health Centre accesses one of our standardized, colour-coded narcotics cupboards. (Photo credit: Lauren Pelley) A big part of our job at St. Joseph’s Health Centre is minimizing the pain experienced by patients during their hospital ...
St. Joseph’s Health Centre’s Leadership Development
Program gives leaders the tools they need for success
The Leadership Development Program at St. Joseph’s Health Centre, Toronto, enables our management team to enhance their leadership capabilities and competencies and gives them the tools they need to be successful in their roles. Providing this important program to our ...
Expanded Family Birthing Centre offers more space and
capacity to care for more moms and babies
The new Family Birthing Centre at St. Joseph's Health Centre is addressing the growing need for obstetrical care in Toronto’s West end with increased capacity to welcome 4,000 new babies into this world every year. This summer, St. Joseph's Health Centre ...
Executive patient experience rounds put patients first
Most people would agree that the last place they want to be is in the hospital. But unfortunately, there comes a point in everyone’s life when they need to be treated in hospital for health-related issues. Here at St. Joseph’s ...
Enhancing interprofessional care for Diabetes
Clinic patients
St. Joseph's Health Centre’s Diabetes Clinic team is using new strategies that are enhancing their interprofessional approach to care, which have improved wait times for clinic appointments, improved the patient care experience and increased staff satisfaction. Over the past two years, ...
Medical clerks get access to wide range of paediatric
cases at St. Joe’s
Third-year medical student Miralem Mrkonjic is still deciding what field he’d like to specialize in as a doctor, but the clerkship rotations he is doing at four hospitals may help him choose his specialty. Mrkonjic is currently doing a six-week clerkship ...
Former employees return to hospital as volunteers
Vilma Sharp may have retired as a nurse 22 years ago, but she still visits St. Joseph’s Health Centre in Toronto weekly. That’s because after she retired in 1989 following 26 years of employment as a nurse at the Health ...
New space for child and adolescent mental health
It’s been 10 years since St. Joseph’s Health Centre inToronto(St. Joe’s) first opened its Child and Adolescent Mental Health program in what was renovated space in the paediatric unit. Now a decade later, this program will be housed for the ...
New interprofessional team puts patients first
After years of discussion on ways to improve the care provided to patients living with a tracheostomy, St. Joseph’s Health Centre Toronto (St. Joe’s) created a new Tracheostomy Team on November 23, 2010. The core group in this new interprofessional tracheostomy ...
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According to Health Canada, falls are by far the most common cause of major injury for seniors in Ontario, accounting for 90 per [...]
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Nurses meet with politicians in the community, and at work
For the last 14 years, registered nurses (RN) have visited Queen’s Park to meet one-on-one with MPPs and cabinet ministers. Dubbed Queen’s Park [...]
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A Power of Attorney for Personal Care (“POA”) is a legal document in which an individual can specify who has authority to make [...]
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Leadership, research and renewal at St. Michael’s Hospital
Before I talk about our renewal project at St. Michael’s Hospital, I want to take advantage of this column’s publication in May to [...]
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Behind the Mask
Christine Erickson is no stranger to the operating room. For 10 years she worked as a Perioperative Nurse before embarking upon her current [...]
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St. Michael’s Memory Disorders Clinic
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Home is best: Are you ready?
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MOVE ON: Why rest is not necessarily best
Although many people believe rest is best during a hospital stay, mobility actually plays a far greater role in recovery. “A lot of [...]
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RVH’s Cancer and Palliative Care Unit…
Mark Johnston hugged his wife Sheri Lynn, for the last time. She was unaware of the embrace. She was already gone. In the [...]
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Broadening access to specialized care: The growth of telemedicine connects patients to the caregivers
For nearly 13 years, Providence Care has been the hub for telemedicine in southeastern Ontario, connecting patients from distant communities to [...]
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