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RVH’s Cancer and Palliative Care Unit…
Mark Johnston hugged his wife Sheri Lynn, for the last time. She was unaware of the embrace. She was already gone. In the early hours of August 31st Sheri Lynn, 41, took her last breath and succumbed to the disease she ...
Bridging the distance Sunnybrook’s Odette Cancer
Centre uses e-health technologies to support colorectal
cancer patients in the community
Peter Duffy turns 68 this year. He and wife Rita will likely celebrate with a special bottle of champagne because the occasion marks more than his birthday. They will toast to the fact that Peter is living 10 years out ...
St. Joe’s clinic strives to help the community’s
“orphan” seniors
Dr. David Tal, Chief of Geriatric Services at St. Joe’s, strives to help patients including “orphan” seniors at our Elderly Community Health Services clinic.Photo credit: Greg Majster There are thousands of seniors living in the diverse communities surrounding St. Joseph’s ...
Teamwork keeps birth close to home at rural
community hospitals
Natalie Wright (right), a registered midwife at Caring Hands Midwifery Services in Alliston, enjoys positive working relationships with the members of the health care team at Stevenson Memorial Hospital, including Dr. Glasine Lawson (left) an OB/GYN at the hospital. In ...
Art Links Lives (A.L.L.): An Intergenerational,
Intercultural Art Program
: 15 year-old Zoë Ruel-Fraser and her "buddy" 90 year-old Jewish Eldercare resident Noah Chmielas participate in the award-winning Art Links Lives (ALL) program. 15-year old Zoë loves getting together with her buddy Noah. They eat pizza together and tell ...
Creating Comfort When There is No Cure
: Mount Sinai’s Temmy Latner Centre for Palliative Care Director Dr. Russell Goldman and Counsellor Andrea Warnick review some of their cases. It takes a different approach to medicine to treat patients who are living out their final months, weeks ...
Keeping you in control of your health-care choices
Mississauga Halton CCAC End-of-life health and
support services
Marlene Grzesiak (left) and Judy Chapman. Our palliative case managers are experts who help you live as pain and symptom-free as possible and to support your wish to die in your place of choice, whether it is at home, ...
St. Joe’s aims for safe use of opioids in
pain management
A nurse at St. Joseph’s Health Centre accesses one of our standardized, colour-coded narcotics cupboards. (Photo credit: Lauren Pelley) A big part of our job at St. Joseph’s Health Centre is minimizing the pain experienced by patients during their hospital ...
Understanding childhood arthritis: from diagnosis
to treatment
Despite the challenges they face with childhood arthritis, children like Emily-Marie Tonner have a positive outlook on life. Imagine you are a seven-year-old child, full of energy, happiness and with a lust for life. Playing outside with friends is your ...
PRHC’s specialty Pain Clinic expands to serve
additional patients
PRHC patient Kendra Shaughnessy receives an epidural steroid injection from RN Kathy Drumm (L) and anaesthesiologist Dr. Bharat Maini. Kendra Shaughnessy was thrilled to hear in early 2013 that she would at long last have access to PRHC’s Pain Clinic ...
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Meeting Patient Needs with Runnymede’s LTLD Rehabilitation Program
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Holland Bloorview youth realizes a dream – a highlight on adaptive technology
With determination, imagination and a lot of specialized skill, Holland Bloorview’s staff and clients are revolutionizing the way technology and equipment enables children [...]
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Rouge Valley offers surgical follow-up over Skype
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Nurses meet with politicians in the community, and at work
For the last 14 years, registered nurses (RN) have visited Queen’s Park to meet one-on-one with MPPs and cabinet ministers. Dubbed Queen’s Park [...]
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Christine Erickson is no stranger to the operating room. For 10 years she worked as a Perioperative Nurse before embarking upon her current [...]
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St. Michael’s Memory Disorders Clinic
When she was in her late 60s, Diana Pritchard began noticing that her memory wasn’t what it used to be. She’d forget to [...]
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Home is best: Are you ready?
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MOVE ON: Why rest is not necessarily best
Although many people believe rest is best during a hospital stay, mobility actually plays a far greater role in recovery. “A lot of [...]
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RVH’s Cancer and Palliative Care Unit…
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Broadening access to specialized care: The growth of telemedicine connects patients to the caregivers
For nearly 13 years, Providence Care has been the hub for telemedicine in southeastern Ontario, connecting patients from distant communities to [...]
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Oncology
Bridging the distance Sunnybrook’s Odette Cancer Centre uses e-health technologies to support colorectal cancer patients in the community
Peter Duffy turns 68 this year. He and wife Rita will likely celebrate with a special bottle of champagne because the occasion marks [...]
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Geriatrics and Aging
St. Joe’s clinic strives to help the community’s “orphan” seniors
There are thousands of seniors living in the diverse communities surrounding St. Joseph’s Health Centre, and each year the number of seniors we [...]
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