It’s that time of year again: flu season. Every year at this time influenza vaccinations for health care workers becomes a hot topic of conversation, and this year is no exception. In fact the topic is even hotter this year ...

Since its founding in 1892, St. Michael’s Hospital’s mission has been to provide the best possible care to the inner city community that surrounds it. St. Michael’s has a unique patient population given its diverse catchment area. The area includes some ...

For the second year in a row, the Birchmount campus of The Scarborough Hospital topped all Toronto community hospitals for flu vaccination compliance, posting a rate nearly 84 per cent better than the median for acute care hospitals in the ...

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 ...

Like many hospitals in Ontario, Windsor Regional Hospital has a robust Diabetic Clinic for both children and adults. Knowing that up to 85 per cent of people with diabetes have trouble managing their disease, the hospital advocates easy to access ...

When patient David Northey runs into difficulty managing his heart failure, he knows he can call the Heart Function Clinic at St. Mary’s General Hospital in Kitchener and often be seen the same day. This quick access to a highly-skilled, multidisciplinary ...

The Heart Program for Women at BC Women’s Hospital & Health Centre helps women at risk for developing heart disease and tries to prevent the need for a major medical intervention in the future. “We set out to provide a program ...

Just as “It takes a village to raise a child,” the team at Markham Stouffville Hospital believes it takes a community to ensure good long-term cardiac health, including an evolving and growing role for local community hospitals. “The way cardiac care ...

Dr. Ophira Ginsburg is establishing an innovative yet sustainable system in Bangladesh that uses affordable mobile phone technology to improve breast cancer screening, treatment adherence and survival rates. And, in Toronto’s South Asian community, she is uncovering how cultural attitudes ...

Cancer Care Ontario (CCO), in partnership with more than 400 pathologists and 100 cancer treating hospitals across Ontario, has implemented a new system and process that standardizes cancer pathology reports. This breakthrough will significantly improve the quality of cancer diagnosis and ...