“ The COVID-19 pandemic is not like any other crisis we have experienced in our collective lifetime. We can only imagine the toll of this pandemic when it is finally over.”
Lynn M. Nagle
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Insights
Staffing for Nursing Home Care: COVID-19 and Beyond
Pat Armstrong, Charlene Harrington and Margaret McGregor
As we search for ways to deal with COVID-19 in nursing homes, and to prevent such tragedies in the future, it seems obvious that we need to begin with staffing.
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Longwoods Breakfast Series
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The Longwoods Breakfast Series is a year of healthcare learning briefings. Each season we provide monthly educational sessions that provide invited leaders in healthcare the opportunity to share new ideas, policies and/or best practices with colleagues
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Catherine Gaulton, Chief Executive Officer & Attorney-in-Fact, Healthcare Insurance Reciprocal of Canada
Topic: A Lens on Healthcare Liability, Safety and the Pandemic's Impact
Location: From the comfort of your own home or space via Zoom. Bring Your Own Breakfast
Sponsors: Abbott, CFHI, CIHI, HealthPro, HIROC, Medtronic and Workday
Register here
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Speakers coming in 2021 include:
- Juggy Sihota, Vice President Consumer Health and Diane McIntosh, Chief Neuroscience Officer, TELUS Health
- Verna Yiu, President and CEO, Alberta Health Services
- Jennifer Zelmer, President and CEO, Canadian Foundation for Healthcare Improvement
Sign up here to be notified of dates and registration.
Click here to see videos of past speakers.
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Healthcare Quarterly Pre-Release
An Evidence-Based Strategy to Scale Vaccination in Canada
Anne W. Snowdon, Alexandra Wright and Michael Saunders
Vaccination rollout efforts in Canada have been criticized for being slow to get under way. The results emerging from a national research study document the underlying factors contributing to the challenges of vaccination planning.
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News
- When will we stop studying long-term care and start fixing it? André Picard
- Ontario is expanding asymptomatic COVID-19 testing in schools. Here's what you need to know
- When will it be my turn to get the COVID-19 vaccine? And how will I know?
- Wondering how and when to book your COVID vaccine? Your family doctor has the same questions, please don’t call them yet
- The hunt for herd immunity: Suddenly, the U.S. seems in better shape on COVID-19
- Provinces are working with outdated vaccine tracking systems, hindering national data
- Calgary biotech company has approval for recruiting symptomatic Covid-19 patients for clinical trial in Alberta
- COVID-19 vaccine developers say lack of federal funding hurt domestic capabilities
- COVID-19 variants will drive resurgence without stronger health measures, modelling warns
- Ottawa to relax penalties for drug offences, encouraged to treat possession as a health issue
- BD-Canada Donates Rapid, Point-of-Care Antigen Tests to Safehaven Project for Community Living
- COVID-19 vaccine deliveries back on track following weeks of delay, says Public Health Agency
- B.C. researchers working to develop breath test for COVID-19
- As Canada’s overdose deaths soar, the safe-supply debate enters a new and urgent phase
- Without a Nurse, a Hospital Bed Is Just a Bed
- Global COVID-19 cases have dropped by half, and experts are looking for explanations
More news
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Conferences
- February 24-April 7, 2021: Online Weekly. NIHI-McMaster University Return on Investment in Health Care
- March 8 and 22, 2021: Online. NIHI-McMaster University Data Analytics III: Hands-on Data Analytics Skills
- March 22-23, 2021: Online. 2021 Rotman Research Institute Virtual Conference - Aging & Brain Health: Optimizing Cognitive & Behavioural Function in Disorders of the Aging Brain
- April 8-May 27, 2021: Online Weekly. NIHI-McMaster University Artificial Intelligence in Health Care Module 2
- May 5, 2021: Virtual. RNFOO Gala celebrating nurses and nursing students
- May 26-28, 2021: Virtual. Behind the Mask: Canadian Bioethics Society Annual Conference
- June 2, 7, 9, 14, 16, 21, & 23, 2021: Online. NIHI-McMaster University Artificial Intelligence in Health Care Module 3
- October 4-6, 2021: Toronto. North American Conference on Integrated Care
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jobs.Longwoods.com
Better Careers | Better Candidates
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Featured Jobs
- Territorial Manager, Laboratory & Diagnostic Imaging - PracticeNWT, Yellowknife, NT
- President & CEO - Campbellford Memorial Hospital, Campbellford, ON
- President and CEO - St. Joseph’s Care Group, Thunder Bay, ON
- Manager, Hospital Finances & Accounting - The University of Guelph, Guelph, ON
- Senior Policy Advisor - Ministry of Health, Toronto, ON
- Assistant Deputy Minister, Multiple Positions - Ministry of Health, Toronto, ON
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Transitions
- Angela Tibando to Digital Excellence in Health Executive, Ontario Health, Toronto, ON
- Liz Pawlowski to Program Director for Medicine, Post-Acute and Patient Flow, Joseph Brant Hospital, Burlington ON
- Jackie Houston to Program Director, Clinical Business Development and Strategy, Baycrest Health Sciences, Toronto, ON
- Ali Vahit Esensoy to Vice President, Data Science, Klick Consulting, Toronto, ON
- Stephen Vanner to Interim Vice-Dean (Clinical), School of Medicine, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON
- Tracey Bear to Director Indigenous Research Institute, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON
- Alexander Lim to Transformation Lead, Hills of Headwaters Collaborative, OHT, Orangeville, ON
- Vanessa Gadoury-Lévesque to Assistant Professor, Adolescent Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, QC
- Catherine Rich to Assistant Professor, General Pediatrics, McGill University, Montreal, QC
- Josh Tuinema to Associated Medical Officer, Algoma Public Health, Sault Ste Marie, ON
- Christal Huang to Sr. Policy Advisor, Children’s Mental Health Ontario, Toronto, ON
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