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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 ...
GoodLife Fitness invests in heart health: Collaboration
targets innovative approach to continuum of care
Celebrating a new collaboration. From left: Dr. Barry Rubin, Dr. Sherry Grace, Dr. Bob Bell, GoodLife Founder and CEO David Patchell-Evans, and Dr. Caroline Chessex. Canadians suffering from heart disease will have greater access to cardiovascular rehabilitation thanks to a ...
The Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine opens
naturopathic teaching clinic at Brampton Civic Hospital
Brampton intern James Yoon, left, confers with supervisor Jonathan Tokiwa, ND, during a patient visit Brampton and Peel Region residents have seen their primary care options expand as the Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine (CCNM) opened its naturopathic teaching clinic ...
Mindfulness as medicine at St. Michael’s
A straightforward, low-tech treatment offered at St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto has provided relief to thousands of chronic pain sufferers across Ontario. It’s not a drug, although it does need to be taken regularly – once-a-week for several weeks. It’s ...
Promoting Healthy Habits at Family Day Program
For the third year, the Museum of Health Care at Kingston held a Family Day program that focused on staying healthy, dispelling fears about doctor visits, and learning about health care history. Children aged three to eight were invited to bring ...
Combating gun violence:Hamilton RN turns grief
into action
On a fall evening in 1996, Karen Vanscoy’s 14-year-old daughter, Jasmine, was shot dead by a 17-year-old male acquaintance with an untreated mood disorder. Jasmine’s eight-year old brother witnessed the tragedy in the family’s living room. “The boy who killed ...
Medication Reconciliation: There to keep you safe
When it comes to health promotion and prevention, few things can keep you safer than proper medication management. For patients, this includes ensuring you always take your medications as directed and that you carry a detailed and up-to-date list of all ...
Requests for complementary and alternative therapies –
one more opportunity for meaningful communication
The notions of complementary and alternative therapy and medicine (CAT or CAM) capture a huge range of products and practices. Those terms potentially cover familiar ‘non-invasive’ therapies like massage and aromatherapy, but also more invasive things like acupuncture through to ...
Patient-centred leadership: A call to action
When I arrived at Kingston General Hospital (KGH) four years ago, I was faced with a number of big challenges including the reality that very few of our practices, processes and policies actually involved patients. So, I started to ask ...
New Diagnostic Imaging Suite at Southlake provides the
best in precision diagnostics and treatment
Keswick resident Dillon McCarthy has a renewed sense of hope that he will be able to continue doing the activities he loves – like taking regular walks – thanks to the opening of the newly redeveloped Diagnostic Imaging Interventional Radiology ...
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Collaborative approach proves a winning formula in falls prevention
According to Health Canada, falls are by far the most common cause of major injury for seniors in Ontario, accounting for 90 per [...]
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Gift of donated cornea changes a life
The gift of vision changed Jennifer Barton’s life. The effects of chronic eye rubbing as a child from uncontrolled allergies left Jennifer with [...]
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St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton & Baxter Partner to Employ Technology to Empower Dialysis Patients
Dialysis patients living with chronic kidney disease face many challenges. In addition to the physical symptoms of the disease, further emotional strain [...]
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Meeting Patient Needs with Runnymede’s LTLD Rehabilitation Program
May 14, 2013, will mark the one year anniversary of the opening of the Low Tolerance Long Duration (LTLD) Rehabilitation program at Runnymede [...]
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Dr. Ron Wald researching best approach to dialysis
During his training as a nephrologist, Dr. Ron Wald became interested in conducting clinical trials to determine the best way to treat patients [...]
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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
A new program offered for surgical programs at Rouge Valley Health System (RVHS) is allowing patients to get the follow-up care they need [...]
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Rouge Valley asks community to Be A Donor
Organ donation saves lives – just ask Brandon Gibson. The 20-year-old Pickering resident was three months old when he was diagnosed with cystic [...]
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A Major Milestone for Heart Transplants
If they weren’t such a modest lot—and if they hadn’t been quite so tired—you might have heard the sounds of celebration at the [...]
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Columns
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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Columns
What is the purpose of a Power of Attorney for Personal Care?
A Power of Attorney for Personal Care (“POA”) is a legal document in which an individual can specify who has authority to make [...]
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Columns
Leadership, research and renewal at St. Michael’s Hospital
Before I talk about our renewal project at St. Michael’s Hospital, I want to take advantage of this column’s publication in May to [...]
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Behind the Mask
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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Geriatrics and Aging
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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Geriatrics and Aging
Home is best: Are you ready?
As the RRSP deadline looms, many Canadians are thinking about retirement planning. Chances are you are wondering whether or not you’ll have enough [...]
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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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Palliative Care
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 [...]
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Patient Care
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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