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“Now you have to understand that back on that Saturday of a long weekend in July, these new board members had seen a lot of their friends and colleagues pictured on the front page of the Ottawa Citizen with a big “Fired” sign above them. As a result, they came in highly motivated not to end up in that same predicament.” Dr. Jack Kitts discusses quality at The Ottawa Hospital.

Essays

“Ontario needs a better planned and more integrated approach to health care if it wants to improve patient services and outcomes while trimming a huge deficit, concludes a special report from hospitals and community care centres.” Report calls for integration of Ontario health services.

Off the Cuff

See our special issue on mental health: http://www.longwoods.com/pages/special-issues

Is it lawful to ride a bicycle on Sudbury sidewalks? A bicycle is defined as a vehicle under the Highway Traffic Act. As such, the bylaw states that you must not drive a vehicle on a sidewalk in the City of Greater Sudbury. Bicycles once on the roadway have to comply with all rules of the road (ie: stop signs, red lights, etc.) From the Sudbury Police Department. Thumbs up!

Call for nominations: The Margret Comack Award of Excellence in Nursing Leadership acknowledges outstanding leadership of an nurse employed in a member organization of OHA. The nomination deadline is July 29, 2011. Click here for more information.

Our Editors Recommend

• Time for a Paradigm Shift: Managing Smarter by Moving from Data and Information to Knowledge and Wisdom in Healthcare Decision-Making by Marcus J. Hollander, Christopher Corbett and Paul Pallan
• Twisting the Lion’s Tail: Collaborative Health Policy Making in British Columbia by Ronald R. Lindstrom, Stuart M. MacLeod and Adrian Levy
• Advanced Practice Nursing in Canada: Overview of a Decision Support Synthesis by Alba DiCenso, Ruth Martin-Misener, Denise Bryant-Lukosius, Ivy Bourgeault, Kelley Kilpatrick, Faith Donald, Sharon Kaasalainen, Patricia Harbman, Nancy Carter, Sandra Kioke, Julia Abelson, R. James McKinlay, Dianna Pasic, Brandi Wasyluk, Julie Vohra and Renee Charbonneau-Smith
• Informing Policy Making and Management in Healthcare: The Place for Synthesis by Catherine Pope, Nicholas Mays and Jennie Popay
• Benefits Realization Framework for a Large Complex Health System by Damon C. Mayes and Jacques S. Romney
• Treating Common Illnesses among Children under Five Years: A Portrayal of Health-Seeking Behaviours and Practices in the Northern Areas of Pakistan by Babar T. Shaikh and Dave Haran

Our Readers Recommend

• General Practice Services Committee: Improving Primary Care for BC Physicians and Patients
• Research: Evidence-based Nursing Practice: How to Get There from Here
• Work Status and Health of Women: A Comparative Study of Northern and Southern States of Rural India
• Spatial and Temporal Variations in Incidence of Tuberculosis in Africa, 1991 to 2005
• A Wake-Up Call for Healthcare Boards
• The ALIVE Program: Developing a Web-Based Professional Development Program for Nursing Leaders in the Home Healthcare Sector
• Integrating Public Health and Primary Care
• Reflections on Canada’s Public Health Enterprise in the 21st Century
• Advancing Nursing Leadership in Long-Term Care
• Office Home Care Workers’ Occupational Health: Associations with Workplace Flexibility and Worker Insecurity

News

• Manitoba Will Implement First-In-Canada, Groundbreaking Cancer Wait-Time Strategy
• Canada at the Forefront of Diabetes Research, Bringing Innovation from the Lab to the Bedside
• Mental Health Stigma Still Pervades Canadian Workplaces
• Kick-off Summer with Brain Injury Awareness
• Major National Study finds there is significant work to be done to improve the quality of stroke care in Canada
• Citizen report on future of health care in Ontario debuts June 22
• Cognitive impairment linked to reduced brain size in children with MS: York U study
• Release of 2011 Report Card on Wait Times in Canada
• Johnson & Johnson exiting $4 billion drug-coated stent business
• York University and United Way of York Region examine link between living conditions and health
• TELUS Health Solutions celebrates Pointe-de-l’Île Community Health Centre’s win of 2011 Ingenious Award
• UofT: Potential Genetic Cause of Severe Sleep Disorder Discovered, Implications for Parkinson’s Disease Research
• The Royal College revitalizes its Maintenance of Certification program and MAINPORT web application
• More…

Conferences

• June 22-24, 2011: Toronto, ON. OACCAC Knowledge and Inspiration 2011
• June 23, 2011: Toronto, ON. HIMSS Ontario AGM & 11th Annual Invitational Golf Tournament
• June 30, 2011: Toronto, ON. National Case Management Network of Canada – Call for Abstracts
• September 19-20, 2011:Toronto, ON. 4th Annual Lean in Healthcare

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For more information please contact conferences@longwoods.com

Transitions

• Leslee Thompson to Vice Chair of the Council of Academic Hospitals of Ontario(CAHO) Board of Directors
• Karl Samuelson to Vice-President of Seniors Services, Winchester District Memorial Hospital, Winchester, ON
• Amanda Bolderston to President/Chair of the Board of the Canadian Association of Medical Radiation Technologists
• Shirley Bague to Immediate Past President of the Board of the Canadian Association of Medical Radiation Technologists
• Wendy Martin-Gutjahr to Vice-President of the Board of the Canadian Association of Medical Radiation Technologists
• Kelly Nystedt to Secretary/Treasurer of the Board of the Canadian Association of Medical Radiation Technologists
• Robert Harding to the Chair of the Board of Trustees of The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids)
• Paul Reynolds to the Board of Trustees of The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids)
• Bob Weese to the Board of Trustees of The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids)
• Rita F. Ciccolini to the Board of Directors of SickKids Foundation
• Kevin Crull to the Board of Directors of SickKids Foundation
• Charles Field-Marsham to the Board of Directors of SickKids Foundation
• David Goodman to the Board of Directors of SickKids Foundation
• Christian Lassonde to the Board of Directors of SickKids Foundation
• Justin Poy to the Board of Directors of SickKids Foundation
• Stephen Beatty to Chair of the Board of Directors, St. John’s Rehab Hospital
• Louise Lambert-Lagacé to Chair of the Board of Directors at the Institut de recherches cliniques de Montréal (IRCM)
• Monique Jérôme-Forget to the Board of Directors at the Institut de recherches cliniques de Montréal (IRCM)
• Michel Lespérance to the Board of Directors at the Institut de recherches cliniques de Montréal (IRCM)
• The Ontario Agency for Health Protection and Promotion is now operating as Public Health Ontario to the Provincial Cancer Control Advisory Committee Advisory
• Dr. Pradip Ganguly to the Provincial Cancer Control Advisory Committee
• Bruce Cooper to the Provincial Cancer Control Advisory Committee
• Katherine Chubbs to the Provincial Cancer Control Advisory Committee
• Dr. Michael Zuckerman to the Provincial Cancer Control Advisory Committee
• Dr. Susan Gillam to the Provincial Cancer Control Advisory Committee
• Boyd Rowe to the Provincial Cancer Control Advisory Committee
• Dr. James Rourke to the Provincial Cancer Control Advisory Committee
• Matthew Piercey to the Provincial Cancer Control Advisory Committee
• Geoff Eaton to the Provincial Cancer Control Advisory Committee
• Rosemary Hedderson to the Provincial Cancer Control Advisory Committee
• Margot Reid to the Provincial Cancer Control Advisory Committee
• Dr. Thomas Costello to the Provincial Cancer Control Advisory Committee
• Russ Boyles to chair the board of Sudbury Regional Hospital
• Michael McCann to the board of Sudbury Regional Hospital
• Mark Burgess to the board of Sudbury Regional Hospital
• Stephen Petrovic to the board of Sudbury Regional Hospital
• Roger Pitblado to the board of Sudbury Regional Hospital

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Featured Careers

See the entire list of leadership and nursing careers at Jobs.Longwoods.com

• Executive Director, H.R. & Organizational Development – Bilingual – Laurentian University, Sudbury, ON
• Strategic Human Resources Business Partner – William Osler Health System, Brampton, ON
• Community Health Care Client Services Managers – Toronto Central Community Care Access Centre, Toronto, ON
• President and Chief Executive Officer – Niagara Health System, St. Catharines, ON
• Decision Support Analyst – Council of Academic Hospitals of Ontario (CAHO), Toronto, ON
• Nurse Practitioner, Oncology – Humber River Regional Hospital, Downsview, ON
• Clinical Practice Leader, Critical Care Unit – Humber River Regional Hospital, Downsview, ON

For more information or to post a position go to Jobs.Longwoods.com or email Susan Hale

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