Hospitals will Adopt Team Ontario Approach to Critical Care Crisis
"Today, provincial modelling data revealed that Ontario is at a 'dangerous' point in the pandemic. The number of new COVID-19 cases is growing by...
Changes to admission and recovery processes enhance efficiency in Cardiac Short Stay Unit
By Madeline Dwyer
A recent partnership with the Medtronic Integrated Health Solutions (IHS) team and Southlake Regional Health Centre’s Regional Cardiac Care Program has improved...
The lost years or a spectacular 2021: Health leadership in 2021
By Jaason Geerts
The early months of 2021 will define health leadership as it advances.
The recent approval and distribution of vaccines suggest to many...
A call to relax no-visitor policies at hospitals in Canada
Hospitals in Canada should relax policies that bar families and caregivers from visiting loved ones, as the restrictions may result in more harm than...
We will pull through
By Dr. Ann Collins
2020 will go down in the books as the Year of Sacrifice. While the COVID-19 pandemic has upended our lives in...
New guideline establishes national standard for managing ALS
The first Canadian guideline for the care and management of patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) — Lou Gehrig's disease — recommends a patient-focused approach, with...
Understanding drug shortages during a pandemic
By Christina Adams
For many years, hospital pharmacists and pharmacy technicians have been managing significant drug shortages in Canadian hospitals.
The reasons for drug shortages are...
Our post-pandemic future
By Vanessa MacDonnell, Sophie Thériault and Sridhar Venkatapuram
What will our post-pandemic future look like?
This is a question on the minds of many these days....
Engineering our way through a pandemic
By Mary Wells and Abbey Israel
While the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic abated, we had a chance to catch our breath and reflect...
Sounding the alarm on wait times, delays in children’s health care
Ontario’s pediatric hospitals and mental health care providers have come together to sound the alarm about excessive wait times and delayed care for children and families in Ontario,...