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First Ronald McDonald Family Room® in the GTA now open
Thanks to the new Ronald McDonald Family Room, parents with ill or premature newborns in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at the Credit Valley Hospital (CVH) site of The Credit Valley Hospital and Trillium Health Centre have some much-needed ...
On the ‘road’ to recovery: Social worker turned
personal experience with depression into innovative
running program for teens
“It’s given me something to live for,” says Stephanie, a 16-year-old who suffers from clinical depression. Referring to a unique running program for teens, Stephanie echoes the feelings of numerous teens and their families who have been a part of ...
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Education and Professional Development
Leading the way in Continuing Medical Education for cardiovascular care
Regional cardiac program videoconferences weekly rounds across Ontario’s Central East Cardiologist Dr. Jason Burstein is delivering a presentation on Multi-Vessel Coronary Artery Disease […]
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Education and Professional Development
Employee engagement an essential step towards better healthcare
In every hospital, each manager believes they lead in a manner that engages employees. No one goes to work thinking they want to […]
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Education and Professional Development
Making staff wellness a top priority
Dr. William Chen is in between surgical cases so he grabs his pager and quickly leaves the operating room. Will he make it […]
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Education and Professional Development
Students as agents for change through quality improvement
A few years ago, a pediatric patient in the intensive care unit at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) in Toronto was inappropriately […]
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Education and Professional Development
‘Dragons’ Den’ program links innovation with improved patient care
‘ Dragons’ Den’-style granting program at St. Joseph’s Health Care London yields bumper crop of innovative ideas, each funded up to $10,000, to […]
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Education and Professional Development
How one hospital is recruiting and retaining top talent
At Canadian hospitals, the pressure to control expenses while at the same time, recruit and retain the best talent is getting more and […]
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Education and Professional Development
Physicians engaged to lead on organ donation in Ontario
Organ and tissue donation benefits society as a whole. It gives a second chance at life to patients waiting for transplantation and positively […]
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Education and Professional Development
New training program highlights unique needs of older patients
A new geriatric training course developed by The Michener Institute for Applied Health Sciences in partnership with Baycrest Health Sciences aims to prepare […]
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Education and Professional Development
Doing things better without adding hours to the day
Change is all around us! Thousands of passionate people at St. Michael’s Hospital are working right now on countless projects and initiatives to […]
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Education and Professional Development
Caring for the caregiver: Quality of Work and Life Program at Sunnybrook
Responding to life and death situations is part of the job description at Sunnybrook, Canada’s largest trauma centre. Our staff look after some […]
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Ethics
Staff engagement: What’s ethics got to do with it?
Engagement of staff members and physicians is a significant priority in many hospitals, and for good reason. At a high level, organizations with […]
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Diseases
New online portal to HIV education resources
The Clinical Education and Training Program at the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS (BC-CfE) has launched a new website that serves as […]
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Evidence Matters
Continuing Medical Education and CADTH: Effective CME from an unexpected source
Continuing medical education, or CME, has come a long way in recent years. At one time CME, also known as ‘continuing professional development’ […]
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Emergency Medicine
Health care providers join forces to save patient’s life
If you ask Leila Rahafrouz to tell you her story, she’ll tell you her strongest memory is suffering from a bad bout of […]
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Nursing Pulse
An appetite for advocacy
For 90 years, the Registered Nurses’ Association of Ontario (RNAO) has advocated for healthy public policy, promoted excellence in nursing practice, increased nurses’ […]
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From the CEO's Desk
At Hôpital Montfort continuing education has its dedicated centre
Hôpital Montfort, a 289-bed university teaching hospital affiliated with the University of Ottawa, delivers short-term primary and secondary health care in French and […]
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Education and Professional Development
Third edition of training in Gentle Persuasive Approaches to Dementia Care launched
Acquiring the proper form of care for a loved one living with dementia can seem overwhelming and often times hopeless. All methods of […]
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Education and Professional Development
The world is their emergency room: On the front lines of humanitarian aid
In 1985, at the age of 10 years old, I saw my first picture of a malnourished child. It was a child from […]
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Mental Health
Helping new and expecting dads cope with mental health issues
When looking back over his life, Mark* realizes that growing up he handled certain situations differently than the other kids in his elementary […]
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Health Care Policy
Health stories that made headlines in 2014
Ebola The Ebola virus causes an acute, serious illness which is often fatal if untreated. Ebola virus disease (EVD) first appeared in 1976 […]
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