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Southlake Acknowledged at Provincial and National Levels
for Quality and Innovation
Southlake Regional Health Centre in Newmarket, Ontario, has been recognized with two recent awards for its outstanding dedication to quality, and its leadership in implementing innovative technology for the benefit of its patients and the overall healthcare system. “Within a period ...
Preparing health care facilities for climate change and
extreme weather
Climate change and natural disaster preparedness are topics of growing interest and concern for health care facilities in Canada. These are two of the most critical areas in which facility planning and management need to take into account how a ...
Providence Manor demonstrates care and efficiency in
“Code Green” emergency evacuation exercise
Whether it’s an overheating electrical device, a worn out wire or a stove left unattended – a fire can occur from many unforeseen circumstances. That is why it is extremely important to be aware of your surroundings and know how ...
Runnymede Healthcare Centre Leading the Way in
Facilities Management
Runnymede Healthcare Centre received an overall score of 96 per cent in a rigorous audit assessing the hospital’s commitment to high quality standards and performance in the delivery of support services, such as housekeeping and laundry. The audit was the final ...
St Joseph’s Hospital: A new look for a new era of care
St. Joseph’s Hospital in London, Ontario is getting a make-over – peeling back the old layers to reveal a brand new modern look. The next time you visit the hospital, you’ll be greeted by a sleek, new look, and a ...
Putting the fun back in fundraising
By day, Royal Victoria Regional Health Centre’s (RVH) Dr. Jim Delaney and Dr. Scott McKenzie are mild-mannered, scrub-wearing, scalpel-holding orthopedic surgeons and Dr. Paul Wilson spends long days treating patients in a very busy emergency department. But at night, Delaney puts ...
New emergency department opens in Barrie
In the wee hours of Saturday, June 9, the doors were shut and the lights turned off as emergency department staff at the Royal Victoria Regional Health Centre (RVH) in Barrie said “Goodbye” to their last patient in the old ...
Canadian initiative helps strengthen emergency care
in Haiti
Picture a hospital. Ambulances race into the ER, doctors perform life-saving surgery, nurses wrap casts and machines beep. Now imagine if the hospital had nothing but bare walls and a ceiling. How do you turn this space into a hospital ...
Practice makes perfect for Lakeridge Health’s
code responders
An overhead page “Mock Code Grey, Diagnostic Imaging” is heard throughout Lakeridge Health Bowmanville. Immediately clinical staff grab their department’s Code Manual to find out what they have to do. Some quickly jump into leadership positions – thriving on the ...
New Respiratory Unit at Royal Victoria Hospital
Royal Victoria Regional Health Centre’s (RVH) new Respiratory Unit recently welcomed its very first patient. Doreen Beamish, 80, from Barrie was the first person to be admitted to the new 32-bed unit where she was greeted by the enthusiastic and ...
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Innovation leads to better efficiency, improved patient care in Rouge Valley Chemotherapy Clinic
Technology being used in Rouge Valley Health System’s chemotherapy clinic is helping to improve efficiency, accuracy and patient care. One simple solution is [...]
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Second MRI Offers Flexibility at Mackenzie Health
MRI scans have become vital diagnostic tools for hospitals around the world. Without exposing patients to radiation, MRI scans can show more precise [...]
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Heart in Hand boutique helps women recovering from cancer
Shelley Gable and I opened Heart in Hand Boutique in the fall of 2012 when we both saw a need for a one [...]
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New Xenon Polarizer in place to advance imaging research
On Friday, April 26, the Honourable Reza Moridi, Ontario’s Minister of Research and Innovation, viewed the Thunder Bay Regional Research Institute’s (TBRRI) xenon [...]
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Work to be done to improve patient safety in paediatrics
We go to great lengths to protect our children, doing our best to keep them safe from harm. Unfortunately, more than nine per [...]
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Getting the Facts on Genetic Testing
Angelina Jolie’s recent editorial in the New York Times resulted in a whirlwind of discussion. Her announcement to decide to undergo a double [...]
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Progress against Cancer
It’s been three years since Bluewater Health first saw an opportunity to transform its cancer program and refocus priorities on the needs of [...]
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Millennials help scientists transform breast cancer research
What compels a twelve year old to commit to a five-year research study? It’s a mixture of cool and curiosity. Just ask Mackenzie [...]
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Annual meeting of nurses: A grand event
In April, about 650 RNs and nursing students attended the Registered Nurses’ Association of Ontario (RNAO) annual general meeting (AGM). There was praise [...]
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Improving the paediatric day surgery patient experience
In January of 2012, Registered Nurse Halona Scott of London Health Science Centre was challenged with finding a way to give teary-eyed children [...]
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Cord blood from Canada’s new national public cord blood bank will help save more lives
After Amy and Mike Lupton’s son, Nate, was born on April 7, 2010, he was diagnosed with Wiskott Aldrich Syndrome, a rare immune [...]
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A Year in the Life: How Local Cancer Care Made All the Difference for Nina Ruberto
Two days after her 40th birthday, Nina Ruberto was diagnosed with an aggressive form of breast cancer. That’s the day, she said, that [...]
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NICU at North Bay Regional Health Centre: Caring for our smallest patients
When Kristen Roy’s water broke at 34 weeks, she didn’t quite believe it. “I didn’t know what to do. I didn’t even think [...]
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New mental health safety standard may impact employers’ duties related to employee mental health
Recent studies have shown that one in five Canadians will experience a mental illness in their lifetime, and that mental health is the [...]
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Responding to a Sentinel Event: Why having a policy in place is critical
People ask me – what is the most difficult part of your day to day job as a Hospital CEO? For me, responding [...]
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Caregiver
Lots of support needs, lots of choices: what’s best to do?
Families across Canada are more and more facing a dilemma: how to ensure aging parents and other loved ones have the kind of [...]
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‘Why didn’t my daughter’s therapist check with me about this counselling?”
Gone are the days when healthcare practitioners needed to recall the legal age of consent for treatment –18, 12, 9, 15? In most [...]
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St. Joe’s makes speech-language therapy fun for our youngest patients
Does your toddler seem tongue-tied? Don’t worry – they’re not alone. Speech and language delays are a common issue for many Canadian kids, [...]
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Lightening the load of chemotherapy for teens, one backpack at a time
Until now, treatment for paediatric sarcoma (bone and/or muscle tumour) in Canada has been done in the hospital. Typically, patients check in for [...]
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Smiles Prescribed at PRHC’s Paediatric Outpatient Clinic
Children laughing, playing and running around are the first sounds and sights that greet you as you walk through the doors of Peterborough [...]
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