UHN Annual Meeting 2018
Spotlight
September 19, 2018Caring for Health the People’s Way
The simple, reliable, effective, and pleasant care that so many people need, especially the frail elderly, ‘needs work’, as the saying goes. The harried woman living on a side-road with her aged mother-in-law with insulin-dependent diabetes, crippling arthritis and infected teeth, who can’t be left alone because of her developing dementia, needs care she is not getting. And neither is that homeless guy with alcoholism and other mental illnesses on his corner downtown. Read more here.
Events
The Un-Closable Hospital
Dr. Brett Belchetz - CEO & Co-founder at Maple
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Latest
Centralized Waiting Lists for Unattached Patients in Primary Care: Learning from an Intervention Implemented in Seven Canadian Provinces
Seniors in Transition: Exploring Pathways Across the Care Continuum
The Challenge of Rural and Northern Health Systems
Are You Culturally Competent?
Articles
The Nursing Human Resource Planning Best Practice Toolkit: Creating a Best Practice Resource for Nursing Managers
Preventing and Managing Conflict: Vital Pieces in the Patient Safety Puzzle
Using SBAR to Communicate Falls Risk and Management in Inter-professional Rehabilitation Teams
Clinical Nurse Specialists and Nurse Practitioners: Title Confusion and Lack of Role Clarity
Share Your Story, Shape Your Care: Engaging the Diverse and Disperse Population of Northwestern Ontario in Healthcare Priority Setting
News
AMA urges Congress not to loosen restrictions on privacy for patients with addiction history
The American Medical Association is opposing a change to patient privacy laws that would allow doctors to more freely share information about a patient’s history of substance use, a proposal tha [...]
Smoking linked to higher dementia risk
Smokers have a higher risk of developing dementia, but giving up smoking can lower that risk, according to a new study in South Korea. Long-term quitters and those who had never smoked had 14 per cen [...]
New Canadian Medical Association head calls for debate on decriminalizing opioids
The new president of the Canadian Medical Association is calling on politicians to have an "open and courageous" debate about decriminalizing opioids in the face of a nationwide overdose cri [...]
Editor's Picks
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UHN Annual Meeting 2018
Careers
Executive Lead, Communications & Government Relations (CGR)
Ontario Nurses Association, Toronto, ON
Clinical Supervisor, Emergency
Niagara Health System, St. Catharines, ON
Chief Executive Officer
Rideau Community Health Services, Merrickville, ON
Palliative Professional Practice Advisor
Mississauga Halton LHIN, Mississauga, ON
Senior Vice President, Patient Experience and Digital Transformation
Health Sciences North, Sudbury, ON
CEO & Scientific Director, CHEO Research Institute; Vice President, Research
CHEO, Ottawa, ON
Multimedia
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Challenges to shifting the mindsetDr. Brett Belchetz of Maple 'Trying to innovate Canadian Healthcare'
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Dr. Allison CrawfordReaching out without falling over: The future of outreach psychiatry
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Our fastest growing population is the elderlyDr. Samir Sinha at the Georgian Bay Healthcare Wellness Research and Innovation Day 2018
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Canadian Blood ServicesGive Blood and Give Life!