COVID-19: Year two
By: Dr. Catherine Zahn
In the summer of 2020, I wrote about the capacity of the COVID-19 pandemic to power change. One year after the...
Supporting the provincial pandemic response
By Altaf Stationwala
This past year, we have seen the health care system manage inconceivable challenges brought on by a global pandemic. We have also...
Collective action for pandemic response in long-term care
By Jennifer Zelmer and Julie Weir
Despite best efforts, the long-term care (LTC) sector has been devastated by outbreaks of COVID-19. LTC residents accounted for...
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...
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