Honouring Staff and Improving Care: VHA’s Client Choice Awards
It started as a way to model spectacular care – the kind of care that we want every client to receive. It quickly became a pivotal tool in addressing the ...
The Harris Legacy in Healthcare
There have been three successful sets of healthcare reforms in Ontario since the creation of Medicare in the author's opinion.
The Mess of the System: Firsthand
Experiencing the health system firsthand has left me at a loss. There are/were many well-intentioned professionals doing the best they could within a system that prevented true full person/family care. ...
Talking For Change Brings Prevention Focus to Fight Against Child Sexual Abuse
As the first and only government-funded program of its kind in Canada, Talking for Change provides treatment and anonymous support to anyone worried about their sexual interest in children, their ...
The Time for Small Care Homes Is Now
For decades, older Canadians have been telling us that they want to age in place in their own homes and communities, and now nearly 100% want to avoid institutional-style nursing ...
The Illicit and Toxic Drug Crisis in Canada: An Epidemic among Young Men at Home
More than 800 lives in British Columbia (BC) were lost to unregulated toxic drugs in the first four months of 2023. The latest report by the BC Coroner’s Service shows ...
ChatGPT: Knows what we know …*
2023 will mark a significant turning point in data science, data and analytics and how an organization uses its data for competitive advantage and improvement. We are no longer at ...
Use Extreme Caution When Looking to the US For Guidance on “Value-Based” Healthcare
The US offers little innovation in the way of healthcare funding policy for Canada.
Strategic Opportunism and the Moral Imperative to Grow
As a not-for-profit homecare provider operating in communities across the province, VHA is a member of 18 different Ontario Health Teams (OHTs). With so many partners, our team could become ...
Innovating Healthcare for Deep Space and Remote Areas on Earth: Phyxable and the Canadian Space Agency’s “Health Beyond Initiative”
Phyxable, selected as 1 of 5 Canadian companies for the Health Beyond Initiative to position Canada as a global leader in remote healthcare. The Connected Care Medical Module (C²M²) will ...
