Providence Healthcare is a leading Toronto health care facility that offers rehabilitation, palliative care, outpatient clinics and services, caregiver support and long-term care. Providence is the perfect example of an organization taking steps to make their workplace safer for employees ...

It takes a lot of courage to acknowledge your weakness. Peterborough Regional Health Centre (PRHC) is a hospital determined to create a high performance culture with courage and hope. Following a series of consistently low employee engagement surveys, the hospital ...

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 ...

The first doctor I ever knew had his jet-black hair slicked back in a way that made him look like Dracula. For many years my younger sister and I went to him for checkups. His hair aside, what I remember ...

Happiness is a skill. One day. Twenty-four hours. 1,440 minutes. 86,400 seconds. How much time do you dedicate to your own happiness in one day? For Velta Vikmanis, at least 30 minutes.  Vikmanis, Coordinator, Nursing Transitions and Commitment, University Health Network (UHN), wears many hats while ...

This past March, Providence Health Care (PHC) in Vancouver was selected by Mediacorp Canada Inc. as one of the 35 Best Employers for New Canadians for 2011, a designation that recognizes the nation's best employers for recent immigrants. A great ...

Only six months out of the gate, London Health Sciences Centre’s (LHSC) pilot fitness program is delivering big rewards to participants. The pilot fitness program was launched in response to a Healthy Workplace Team Report along with feedback from focus ...

Thanks to improvements being made to the Rouge Valley Health System musculoskeletal program, fewer staff members at the hospital’s two campuses are experiencing job-related injuries. The most recent statistics show that musculoskeletal (MSK) injuries – typically injuries sustained in the hands, ...

At St. Joseph’s Health Centre, Toronto, physician leadership is critical to our ability to deliver on our strategy to be The Best. We rely on our physicians to take on leadership roles to participate in decision making that will help ...

Whether for the body, mind or soul, Toronto East General Hospital’s (TEGH) award winning Wellness Program recognizes that a healthy and positive work environment goes far beyond the desk, nursing station or patient room. That is why the Wellness Program, ...