A Pandemic and OHT Symbiosis through Stages of Grief and Appreciative Inquiry
Healthcare leaders were recently challenged to create Ontario Health Teams (OHTs). In the midst of that game-changing work, came the COVID-19 pandemic.
Make the Healthy Choice: Retain Volunteers Post COVID-19
How do you persuade temporary volunteers to become long-term ones? Some ways are self-evident, such as ensuring that volunteers feel valued and are performing tasks that suit their interests and ...
Virtual Family Visits in Ontario's Hospitals: A Necessary Implementation
This essay analyzes a recently released judicial review regarding visitation rights during COVID-19 and explains the urgency of establishing a directive across hospitals in Ontario to host virtual family visits ...
COVID-19 and SARS - Learnings from 2 Health Systems: Australia and Canada
As a chief nurse in Ontario during the SARS outbreak in 2003, I never thought I would experience anything even remotely similar, let alone exponentially worse, in my lifetime. Seventeen ...
Sustaining Social Distancing and Mass Quarantine in the COVID-19 Era: Lessons Learned
Containing disease spread is less about treatment and vaccines, and more about the capacity of systems, communities and individuals to actually prevent the spread of the disease.
Planning for COVID-19 in the Provision of Surgical Services in Nova Scotia
Dr. Saxe-Braithwaite presents a high-level synopsis of the key elements of Nova Scotia's COVID-19 surgical care plan and how healthcare systems have prepared for, and responded to, this unprecedented healthcare ...
Austerity and COVID-19
We will see the social determinants of health play out in the COVID-19 pandemic. In the US, there already are early reports of race-based disparities in risk of infection, and ...
The Light at the End of the COVID-19 Tunnel
If history has taught us anything, these unusual times are not a first and they will definitely not be the last. As a Stockdale optimist, I am confident that this ...
An Open Letter to Nursing Executives and Managers
Please remember this is uncharted territory for us all, including our new graduates, who will eagerly hit the ground running – but this is a marathon, not a sprint.
COVID-19: Some Observations
My point of reference for COVID-19 is SARS. I was a Toronto hospital CEO in the thick of the SARS outbreak, but I am much more removed from the COVID-19 ...
