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Infection Control
Going better than green for cleaning
The cost of Hospital Acquired Infections (HAI’s) to both the patient and the bottom line is staggering for hospitals. Patients attend a hospital to be healed, not harmed. At the same time, the daily financial cost to the system for ...
Reusable sharps containers making healthcare safer
and greener
Plastic disposable sharps containers account for a significant portion of the total sharps waste stream. In recent years the amount of sharps waste has been compounded with the adoption of sharps safety devices (safety needles) which can be much bulkier ...
Accredited online education on immunization offered to
health care providers
Ontario has launched four online learning courses to help health care providers respond to patients’ questions about immunization and Ontario’s expanded publicly funded immunization schedule. “Earlier this year, we added more free immunizations to protect babies and children from serious infectious ...
Immunization is not a bad word
If you want to start a heated debate amongst a group of new moms all you have to do is say immunization. It’s a guaranteed firestarter, at least amongst the baby groups and Mother Goose classes I have been a ...
Connecting patient safety and infection prevention
When SARS claimed 44 lives in Ontario in 2003—even though no one died at the Brant Community Healthcare System—it significantly changed the way care was delivered. SARS convinced the Board of Directors that oversees the Brantford General, a 300+ bed acute ...
Women’s College Hospital scientist will teach Haitian
women to prevent HIV
An innovative program in Haiti, spearheaded by Women’s College Research Institute (WCRI) post-doctoral fellow Carmen Logie, will use solar-powered tablets to teach women about HIV prevention. Recently awarded $100,000 by Grand Challenges Canada, Logie shares the spotlight with 18 of ...
Hospital staff fostering innovation to increase hand
hygiene rates
With awareness regarding hospital-based infection rates on the rise, it is now more important than ever for health-care workers to clean their hands at the right moments. Southlake Regional Health Centre’s Infection Prevention and Control (IPAC) department recognizes that the threat ...
Patient Safety Advocates are good news for quality care
“Having worked at several hospitals – both large and small, urban and rural – and since coming to Campbellford Memorial Hospital (CMH), I have not encountered a hospital that does so much to enhance patient safety as we do here,” ...
BC Children’s PICU learns quality improvement lesson
the hard way
The Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) at BC Children’s Hospital has achieved a significant milestone. They haven’t had a short-term central line infection in any of their patients since October 2008. Central lines are inserted in acutely ill patients who ...
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Education and Professional Development
Search on for outstanding senior volunteers
You’ll likely find them around every corner: senior volunteers who make a difference each day in hospitals, community organizations, neighbourhoods and senior centres. [...]
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The first comprehensive recycling program in British Columbia health care
The Lower Mainland Recycling Renewal project is the first of its kind for BC health authorities. Previous recycling efforts at most of our [...]
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An analysis of NICU departmental ‘Plan Typologies’ in a single room care model
As the single room care model becomes the norm in Neonatal Intensive Care Unit planning and design, the single rooms can be arranged [...]
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Implementation of ePatient Record improves quality of care
As the implementation of electronic patient record (ePR) begins at Providence Care in Kingston, examination of current processes and planning for future processes [...]
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St. Joseph’s electronic patient records focus on improving quality of care
St. Joseph’s Health Centre, Toronto is excited about our progress to date as we enter the later stages of Phase 2 of our [...]
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Operating Room Supply Chain: Want OR efficiency? Learn to find best locations for supplies
Pilot study finds key supply chain projects like optimizing your OR inventory can reduce costs and improve staff satisfaction. This is the second [...]
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Bringing local food to health care food service
Often the struggle for health care food service is balancing a variety of dietary needs with tight budgets. This delicate balance can make [...]
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Integrating maternal-child data for all births in Ontario
On the campus of the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO), recent privacy software innovations have been united with a clinical database to [...]
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Canada’s oldest avatars: Making healthcare smarter
Homes and condos wired with sensors and remotely monitored by clinicians could signal a whole new approach to healthcare that gives Canadian seniors [...]
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Virtual Emergency Room: Using technology to reach kids in crisis
Every year, thousands of youth experience a mental health crisis, yet Ontario’s Wait Time Strategy data shows that these children can wait up [...]
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Getting to Green: Sustainable health care training
Canada’s first sustainable health care training workshop was successfully launched recently at Toronto’s St. Michael’s Hospital thanks to funding support from Johnson & [...]
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Facilities Management and Design
Are you ready for the unexpected? Steps to help develop an effective contingency plan
We all know that the unexpected usually happens at the most inconvenient times. Be prepared for these situations by working with a trusted [...]
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Going better than green for cleaning
The cost of Hospital Acquired Infections (HAI’s) to both the patient and the bottom line is staggering for hospitals. Patients attend a hospital [...]
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On the record: Technology improves patient care
The opening of a new family doctor clinic. The purchase of the latest device for a hospital diagnostic imaging department. The recruitment of [...]
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Ten year milestone reached by lung transplant recipient
Last year, 2011 was an excellent year for Brittany Henry. At 24 years of age, she was still alive. And well enough to [...]
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Bringing improved patient safety and the latest evidence to the bedside
Patient safety at North York General Hospital (NYGH) received a major boost with the launch of bold technology that is reducing medication errors [...]
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Green Clinical Academic Campus is golden
Last fall, the Clinical Academic Campus (CAC) at Kelowna General Hospital (KGH) was recognized as Kelowna’s first LEED Canada Gold certified building. KGH [...]
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Greening the operating room
The Scarborough Hospital is being lauded as a leader in demonstrating a serious commitment to going green and using reusable textiles in [...]
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Addictions and Drugs
Drug information systems protect patients from drug interactions
It’s an easy scenario to imagine. A man consults his doctor for a particular condition. The doctor writes a prescription. Sometime later that [...]
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Disease management requires technology―and an attitude change
Multiple chronic conditions are reaching epidemic proportions and putting an unprecedented financial and logistical strain on our health care system. Chronic conditions in [...]
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