Nursing

Rodolfo D. Lastimosa Jr. 2nd Place Nursing Hero

Southbridge Care Homes am honored to nominate Rodolfo D. Lastimosa Jr. for the Nursing Hero Award. Rodolfo’s career reflects a unique combination of lived experience, leadership, and a sustained commitment to improving care across the healthcare system. His journey—from caregiver to Registered Practical Nurse, Registered Nurse, and now an executive...
Wellness Zone

Sleeping against the clock: How hospital shift workers can protect their health

HN Summary • Shift work disrupts the body’s natural circadian rhythm, increasing risks of...
Emergency Medicine

HHS Urgent Medicine Day Unit a provincial first

HN Summary • Hamilton Health Sciences’ Urgent Medicine Day Unit (UMED) is a first-of-its-kind...
eHealth

Designing the future of care: Advancing an AI-enabled hospital system

HN Summary • William Osler Health System is embedding AI into its new Epic...

News & topics

Rehabilitation

First-of-its-kind study finds prehabilitation for living liver donors can improve recovery after surgery

HN Summary • A UHN feasibility study (PROPELLER) found that prehabilitation (prehab)—exercise, nutrition, and mental health support before surgery—can safely improve recovery for living liver donors.  • Donors who participated felt better prepared and recovered faster, addressing both physical and psychological challenges commonly experienced after donation.  • The program also encouraged lasting...
eHealth

Improving Patient Experience Starts with How Teams Communicate

Healthcare teams are being asked to do more with less. Staffing shortages, rising patient...
eHealth

Privacy-First AI: How Federated Learning Is Transforming Canadian Cancer Research

Imagine training an AI model on patient data from hospitals in Vancouver, Toronto, and...
eHealth

Making Clinical Research a Care Option: How Digital Infrastructure is Expanding Access to Clinical Trials in Canada

Across Canada, there is growing recognition that clinical research should not be viewed as...
eHealth

Keeping EDs Open & Reducing Wait Times

Strategic solutions to support emergency departments under strain. Emergency Departments (EDs) are the essential safety...
Hospital News Video Library

Medical Specialties

Pediatrics

Extending the monitoring period for severe pregnancy complications shows more than 40% of cases previously missed

Extending the monitoring period for severe pregnancy complications showed more than 40% of cases were missed using traditional delivery-focused monitoring, according to new research...
Diseases

Cancer clinicians call for three actions Canada’s health systems should take to improve cancer care

April Cancer Awareness Month a good time for concrete action The Cancer Clinician Advocacy Forum...
Technology and Innovation

Leading AI Note-Taking Solutions for Mental Health Professionals

If you’re a therapist in Canada, you already know the real work starts after...
Diseases

On National Caregivers Day, ALS Canada expands national mental health supports for caregivers with funding from Petro‑Canada CareMakers Foundation

Virtual program connects caregivers to mental health support anywhere in Canada. In recognition of National Caregivers Day, caregivers for people living with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) across Canada will have access to an expanded national mental health support program through the ALS Society of Canada (ALS Canada), made possible with generous funding from the Petro‑Canada CareMakers Foundation. An ALS diagnosis is life-changing, not only for the person receiving it, but for...
Mental Health

The Cost of Silence: Why Black Youth Mental Health Can’t Wait

When we talk about mental health in Canada, the general numbers often hide a much deeper crisis. National data shows that roughly 26% of...

NURSING

Nursing

Jennifer Sabalboro 1st Place Nursing Hero

Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre In 2016, Jennifer Sabalboro arrived in Toronto not as a nurse, but as a live-in caregiver for a post-stroke elderly patient—quietly carrying with her a dream that seemed distant, uncertain, and filled with obstacles. Like many internationally educated nurses, she faced...
Mental Health

How health-care professionals can protect their well-being

HN Summary • Burnout is driven by sustained system pressures, emotional labour and chronic overload...
Nursing

Relearning how to rest in health care

HN Summary • Many health-care professionals struggle to feel restored, even during time off, due...
Nursing

Survey shows progress in primary care access as Nurse Practitioners help close gaps

The Nurse Practitioners’ Association of Ontario (NPAO) welcomes findings from the 2025 OurCare National...
Nursing

The Cost of Inaction: Why the OHA’s Resistance to Staffing Ratios Defies Logic

In a recent episode of The Gritty Nurse, I sat down with Michael Hurley,...

LONGTERM CARE

Home Care

Slower-walking seniors at risk for falls benefit most from home-based exercise program

HN Summary • New research shows a home-based strength and balance exercise program can significantly reduce falls in older adults with a history of falls,...
Longterm Care

Reimagining hospital care for an aging population

HN Summary • Mackenzie Health is transforming hospital care for older adults, who make up...
Home Care

Easy to install and retrofit home emergency call sysytem with EnOcean technology

In care facilities and serviced apartments quick help in an emergency counts. Modern home...
Cardiology

Heart failure patient recovers at home thanks to a Canadian first at HHS

It felt like an elephant was sitting on my chest.” That’s how Hamilton resident Peg Kelly describes chest pressure she experienced one night in December, during the holidays. Kelly has been living with heart failure (HF) for 10 years and recognized the seriousness of her...
Longterm Care

Fostering connection in long-term care with the help of social robots

HN Summary •AI robots as companions: Vancouver researcher Dr. Lillian Hung studied LOVOT social robots in Canadian long-term care homes, finding they provided joy, comfort...