Low staff morale. It's the carbon monoxide of health care cultures. Indeed, problems with employee morale can lead to a host of unpleasant side effects, including, but not limited to, burnout, increased employee absences, lower staff retention rates and, of course, ...

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 ...

Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre (TBRHSC) is taking wellness seriously. As part of a strategic visioning and renewal process, Prevention and Screening Services emerged late last year as a new service to help promote and support wellness across the ...

Like many healthcare providers, Providence Care knows about change. The need to embrace change – as individuals, as an organization and as an industry – is our new reality. With new standards of care, a growing population and shifting demographics, ...

More than 300 health professionals and medical students descended at a Toronto hotel recently for a St. Michael’s Hospital-led international course on endoscopy techniques —considered the gold standard in endoscopy courses. “This course is unique in Canada,” said Dr. Gary May, ...

The grief that physicians feel over the loss of their patients is something that is often significantly underestimated. With Mount Sinai Hospital physicians treating patients with increasingly complex cancers as well as many other complicated illnesses, patient loss is a ...

This summer, the Association of Ontario Midwives (AOM) released its newest clinical practice guideline, Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy. The guideline is available in various formats, making the information even more accessible for midwives, pregnant women and other health care providers. The ...

More than 21,000 cases – that’s how many times CritiCall Ontario answered calls from Ontario physicians who needed assistance caring for a critically or emergently ill or injured patient this past year. In fact, for the past five years, call ...

In an innovative use of telemedicine technology, interventional cardiologists from the Peter Munk Cardiac Centre and St. Michael’s Hospital collaborated on a best practices course in complex, minimally-invasive cardiac interventional procedures on May 3 and 4 to a group of ...

Today, there are more than nine million Canadians living with diabetes or prediabetes. The Canadian Diabetes Association is dedicated to leading the fight against diabetes by helping people with diabetes live healthy lives while working to find a cure.  The ...