Trish Lospinuso’s role at Sunnybrook received a makeover in November 2011.  The creation of the Office of the Patient Experience shifted her focus from largely reactive responses to help improve service and satisfaction for the hospital’s patients and their families, ...

Sunnybrook’s Schulich Heart Centre has developed a successful multidisciplinary strategy for greatly reducing the need for blood transfusions in primary elective coronary artery bypass grafting, commonly known as heart bypass surgery that is planned in advance. “We took it upon ourselves ...

To further improve outcomes for individuals living with cancer, the strength of research collaboration across Sunnybrook’s Odette Cancer Centre and Sunnybrook Research Institute (SRI) better propels translation to clinical care. “In imaging research and resulting discoveries for example in breast cancer,” ...

As the single room care model becomes the norm in Neonatal Intensive Care Unit planning and design, the single rooms can be arranged in a variety of configurations which have direct impacts on patient care delivery, operational efficiency and cost. Parkin ...

Volunteers have been a valued part of Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre’s busy Emergency Department (ED) for many years. Almost 50 individuals volunteer in the ED on a regular basis, directing patients and providing comfort. However, in recent years these Volunteers ...

A team of engineers, University of Toronto residents and Sunnybrook cancer surgeons are doing much more than playing games with their Xbox Kinect™, they are using the technology during surgery to view critical patient imaging. One of the challenges during cancer ...

Wendy Wilson, 56, had begun to make healthier lifestyle choices but in May 2010 she was told the lump in her right breast wasn’t one of the many benign cysts she had before. She heard those life-altering words: breast cancer. Soon ...

Surgeons at Sunnybrook’s Schulich Heart Centre have successfully performed their first port access surgery to repair a faulty mitral valve. The highly technical video-assisted procedure has only been performed at three other centres in Canada to date. The minimally invasive surgery ...