Midwives practice in rural, remote and northern communities across Ontario. Some of these midwives work in practices with midwifery colleagues, others are solo practitioners. Committed to their clients, they work hard to provide excellent primary care to women outside of urban ...

The idea of moving out of hospital and back home seems, on the surface, to be a transition worth celebrating. After all, for many patients it means returning to a familiar environment where they can enjoy creature comforts on the ...

Behind a small, understated storefront on East Hastings Street in Vancouver is Insite, the only legal, free-standing supervised injection site in North America. The line to get into Insite each morning starts on the street well before opening at 10 a.m. ...

The Lower Mainland Recycling Renewal project is the first of its kind for BC health authorities. Previous recycling efforts at most of our hospitals have been uncoordinated and largely lacked appropriate support. To date, any recycling that exists in the ...

A nurse rolls her eyes when you ask her for help. A new nurse is given the most difficult patient on the floor so others can, “See what she’s made of.” A circulator doesn’t tell the scrub nurse that the ...

When a medical malpractice lawsuit occurs, the hospital and all members of the health care team may be named as defendants. This might include the nurses, physicians, nurse practitioners, midwives, ambulance attendants, laboratory technicians, respiratory therapists, nursing and medical students ...

  CARE Centre for Internationally Educated Nurses (IENs) recently celebrated its tenth anniversary, and over those ten years has helped more than 1,000 nurses from 140 countries to achieve registration to practice in Ontario. Nurses are often called the backbone of ...

When it comes to health care costs in Canada, the challenges facing the system are well documented.  Nationally, health care utilization is on the rise, with expenditures expected to grow to 11 per cent of GDP. As population health needs ...

Mark Wilson didn't have to have a medical degree to know that something was horribly wrong with him. The blood in his stool said it all. With a strong family history of colorectal cancer, Wilson assumed the worst and was prepared to ...

Imagine suffering for six years from incredibly heavy menstrual flow only to discover you can solve the problem in 90 seconds – in an outpatient clinic, with local anesthetic and no incisions and be back on your feet the same ...