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Designing for cognitive well-being
By Monica Fleck
Imagine you’re a third-year college student in an interior design program
and you’ve just completed six weeks...
First hospital in Canada to be equipped with state-of-the-art, self-sanitizing technology
By Lisa van Kolfschoten
Five private inpatient rooms at the Collingwood General and Marine Hospital (CGMH)...
Creating a safer, greener and cleaner hospital
By
Andrew Aggerholm
Markham Stouffville Hospital’s (MSH) Infection
Prevention and Control Department (IPAC) and Corporate Services Department are
teaming up to create...
Leveraging technology to improve outbreak notifications
By Emily Dawson
Historically, when an
outbreak was declared at Providence Healthcare’s long-term care home,
staff...
Paid to play
By Jonathan Sher
It may seem quite the hike from Rwanda to Western University in London, Ontario, but for nursing student Amy Olson, the trip...
Inspecting every single element of a nearly 400,000 square-foot new hospital
Are all systems go? That’s the question that needs to be answered during the commissioning of the new HSC Winnipeg Women’s Hospital.
“Throughout the construction...
Doctors without Borders: Memorial
By Courtney Bercan
Years later, I still don’t want to think about it, let alone type it out. Three children, babies practically, dead before me....
Collaborative and patient-centred design
By Mariela Castro
Embracing innovation has always been one of the fundamental pillars of West Park Healthcare Centre. At its recent “turning of the soil”...
Building community ownership: A new way for hospitals to engage the public
By Sarah Hartwick
Building a new, modern health and research centre in the heart of Ottawa is about health care – and it’s about the...
Face-to-face with infection prevention and control
By Michael Oreskovich
Infections are the most common kind of complication for hospitalized patients, responsible for thousands of deaths each year according to the Public...
