Changing the model for case and contact management in public health
By Linda Dempster
Fraser Health Authority is the second largest health authority in Canada. We are responsible for the delivery of hospital and community-based health...
Strategic planning during a pandemic
By Dr. Naveed Mohammad
As hospital administrators, we’re constantly evolving our services and models of care in response to changing health care needs and to...
Together is better
By Dr. Gillian Kernaghan
“We’re in this together” became a unifying phrase that emerged in the early months of the pandemic - simultaneously a rallying...
Importance of partnerships for mental health care in a pandemic
By Carol Lambie
The alarming mental health and addiction statistics we are seeing with the COVID-19 pandemic heightens the importance of September as national Recovery...
Lessons learned from the first wave of COVID-19
By Dr. Tim Rutledge
What will the second wave be like? It’s a question we are all asking as we face the coming cold and...
Children are bearing the brunt of COVID-19
By Alex Munter
Last year, the Ontario government challenged the health-care sector to re-organize and make care less complicated to access.
The government introduced the concept...
COVID-19 can power change
By Dr. Catherine Zahn
The COVID-19 pandemic has set societal disparities in stark relief. There is evidence of this everywhere. We see it in who...
Advancing patient and family centered care in the COVID-19 era
By Dr. Joshua Tepper
In the last 90 days hospitals have been faced with an inordinate volume of difficult decisions. One of the hardest has...
Transforming health care through innovation
By David Diamond
As President and CEO of Eastern Health, I am thrilled that we have embarked on an exciting innovation journey to transform health...
Excellent patient care meets environmental stewardship
By Anne-Marie Malek
As noted in The Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change’s annual report (2019), Canada’s health care sector produces the third-highest per...