Spotlight
April 05, 2021Most Recent CIHI Surveys from Healthcare Quarterly
- New Data on Access to Mental Health and Addictions Services and Home and Community Care
- Hospital Stays for Harm Caused by Substance Use among Youth in Canada
- Coordination of Care Could Improve: Canadian Results from the Commonwealth Fund International Health Policy Survey of Primary Care Physicians
- Prescribed Drug Spending in Canada, 2019: A Focus on Public Drug Program
Events
Innovative Technologies for Challenging Issues: Paving the Way for More Collaborative, Patient-Centric Care
Juggy Sihota, Vice President, Consumer Health, TELUS and Dr. Diane McIntosh, Chief Neuroscience Officer, TELUS
Longwoods Radio
How to Improve Safety and Quality in an Overburdened Health System
At our Breakfast event on January 23, 2019. Dr. Kevin Smith, President and CEO, University Health Network (UHN) discusses how Ontario’s hospitals are often operating beyond 100 per cent capacity.
To hear the most recent Podcasts click here.
Featured Articles
Increased Private Healthcare for Canada: Is That the Right Solution?
Key Characteristics of a Fragile Healthcare Supply Chain: Learning from a Pandemic
Sustainable Health Systems: Who Will Answer the Call to Action, and How?
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
Proposed user fees for health services threaten the Canadian healthcare system
Interview with Kathleen MacMillan, Former Provincial Chief Nursing Officer
A Proposed Benefits Evaluation Framework for Health Information Systems in Canada
News
Rare blood clots may be linked to AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine, but benefits still outweigh risks: Health Canada
2021-04-14 from theglobeandmai.com There is enough evidence to say the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine may cause very rare blood clots but the shot is still extremely safe, very effective and will remain [...]
Lessons from Quebec City's gym outbreak, one of Canada's largest COVID-19 superspreading events Social Sharing
2021-04-14 from cbc.ca We still don't know exactly how it started — a runner on a treadmill, or perhaps someone lifting weights — but an outbreak at a gym in Quebec City has become one of [...]
Pre-registering all Ontarians right away for COVID-19 vaccine could help with supply problems, hesitancy, councillor and health experts say
2021-04-14 from thestar.com Allowing everybody in Ontario to pre-register for COVID-19 vaccination now could help the province with its supply issues as well as overcome any vaccine hesitancy, says a [...]
Editor's Picks
Background: The COVID-19 pandemic is placing unprecedented pressure on a nursing workforce that is already under considerable mental strain due to an overloaded system. Convergent evidence from the current and previous pandemics indicates that nurses experience the highest levels of psychological distress compared with other health professionals. Nurse leaders face particular challenges in mitigating risk and supporting nursing staff to negotiate moral distress and fatigue during large-scale, su [...]
Careers
Director, Negotiations Branch / Director, Primary Health Care Branch
Ministry of Health, Toronto, ON
Director, Business Analytics and Health Information Management
Orillia Soldiers' Memorial Hospital, Orillia, ON
Supervisor, Occupational Therapy
PracticeNWT, Yellowknife, NT
President & Chief Executive Officer
St. Thomas Elgin General Hospital, St. Thomas, ON
President, Foundation/Vice President Brand & Marketing
Royal Ottawa Health Care Group, Ottawa, ON
Manager, Acute Care
Northern Health, Kitimat, BC
Manager, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
VHA Home HealthCare, Toronto, ON
Recruitment for Board of Directors
Scarborough Health Network, Scarborough, ON
Vice President, Clinical Services and Chief Nurse Executive
Lakeridge Health, Oshawa, ON
Chief Executive Officer
YouthLink, Scarborough, ON
Vice President, Client Services
VHA Home HealthCare, Toronto, ON
Regional Manager, Primary Care
PracticeNWT, Fort Simpson, NT
Vice President, Clinical Services & Chief Nursing Executive
Haliburton Highlands Health Services, Haliburton, ON
Vice President, Support Services & Chief Financial Officer
Haliburton Highlands Health Services, Haliburton, ON
Multimedia
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Longwoods Breakfast SeriesA Lens on Healthcare Liability, Safety and the Pandemic's Impact
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Health Outside the Hospital - Panel DiscussionHealth Outside the Hospital
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Health Outside the Hospital - Panel Presentation
Health Outside the Hospital
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Keynote - Dr. Charles Alessi, Chief Clinical Officer – International, HIMSSHealth Outside the Hospital
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