“ ... while Canada has historically been a world leader in health service delivery, over the past two decades, we have seen a steady decline in our relative performance when compared to other industrialized nations ...”
Hugh MacLeod and Martin Vogel

Insights

Staffing for Nursing Home Care: COVID-19 and Beyond (Insights, July 2020)

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 .

Off the Cuff

Just Released! Healthcare Quarterly Vol. 34, No.1: Responding to the COVID-19 Pandemic

Federal budget 2021: Liberals’ fiscal anchor banks on rapid pandemic recovery

‘Our healthcare system is going to totally collapse.’ These doctors listened to Doug Ford’s new plan and heard defeat and death

As ICUs fill up, doctors confront grim choice of who gets life-saving care

Future-Proofing The Healthcare Experience

3 Ways to Humanize the Virtual Health Care Experience

How Covid Has Sped Up The Future In Healthcare

How artificial intelligence is transforming the future of healthcare one step at a time

On-demand healthcare is the future

Patients, providers and the future of health care

How am I Doing? Working in a health care setting, there is often no time to stop and think about your own mental health

How Can I Help my Team?

Mental health resources for healthcare working during COVID-19 from CAMH

Wellness resources for health professionals from the Royal College

Psychologists giving back to front line service providers

Strengthening Mental Health and Wellness During COVID-19

As pandemic worsens, more kids are in crisis than ever and mental health agencies are struggling to keep up

EXTRA: Executive Training Program: Ready to make a connection?  Now accepting applications for Cohort 17. Healthcare Excellence Canada

More from the Longwoods Archives:

• Physician Experience at the Leading Edge of the Digital Healthcare Transformation by Michael Gardam (Healthcare Quarterly, 2020)
• Shaping the Future of Patient Experience Measurement in Canadian Healthcare by Jason M. Sutherland (Healthcare Papers, 2020)
• Future of Healthcare 2036 – An Integration of Providers, Consumers and Technology by Kevin PD Smith (Insights, 2016)

Events

Longwoods Breakfast Series

Speakers coming in 2021 include:

• Jennifer Zelmer, President and CEO, Healthcare Excellence Canada

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News

• Our actions can help pull Canada’s healthcare system back from the brink
• Ontario's failure to control the third wave has implications for all of Canada
• Meet the Canadian doctors working to identify and treat the rare blood clots linked to COVID-19 vaccines
• How a COVID-19 vaccine can (and cannot) affect menstruation, mammograms and more
• How old do you have to be to get the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine in each province?
• Canada's healthcare workers brace for the painful blow of a punishing third wave
• Modelling the impact of restrictions to prepare for next public health crisis
• COVID-19 cases in Ontario will remain high into summer without six week stay-at-home order, modelling shows
• CMA calls for extraordinary measures as pandemic surpasses critical point
• Rare blood clots may be linked to AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine, but benefits still outweigh risks: Health Canada
• Lessons from Quebec City's gym outbreak, one of Canada's largest COVID-19 superspreading events
• Pre-registering all Ontarians right away for COVID-19 vaccine could help with supply problems, hesitancy, councillor and health experts say
• Two Toronto health networks forced to limit or close COVID-19 vaccine clinics due to shortages
• Hospitalization of 3 vaccinated COVID-19 patients 'a bit surprising,' says epidemiologist 

Conferences

• April 20,2021: Virtual. TELUS Health Annual Conference
• April 22-May 27, 2021: Online Weekly. NIHI-McMaster University Artificial Intelligence in Health Care Module 2
• April 23-June 25, 2021: Online 10 Sessions. NIHI-McMaster Connected Health & IoT Course
• April 27-June 29, 2021: Online 10 Sessions. NIHI-McMaster Navigating Healthcare Procurement Course
• May 3, 17, 31, 2021: Online 13 sessions. NIHI-McMaster Cybersecurity Management Course
• May 13-14, 2021: Online: Emergency Preparedness for the Health Care Industry
• May 17-18 2021: Virtual. ARCC2021 10th Annual Conference
• May 19-21, 2021: Virtual. Hindsight, Insight and Foresight - 2021 Annual CAHSPR Conference
• June 2, 7, 9, 14, 16, 21, & 23, 2021: Online. NIHI-McMaster University Artificial Intelligence in Health Care Module 3
• June 9, 2021: Online. Home and Community Care Conference
• October 4-6, 2021: Toronto. North American Conference on Integrated Care

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Featured Jobs

• President and Chief Executive Officer - The South Huron Hospital Association and Grand Bend Area Community Health Centre, Grand Bend, ON 
• Chief and Medical Director, Medicine - Trillium Health Partners, Mississauga, ON
• Vice President + Chief Nursing Executive - Chatham-Kent Health Alliance, Chatham, ON
• Director, Negotiations Branch / Director, Primary Health Care Branch - Ontario 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 

Transitions

• Andra Campitelli to Chief of Functional Medicine, ReGen Scientific, Toronto, ON
• Daphne Sniekers to Manager, Performance Measurement and Management, Ontario Ministry of Health, Toronto, ON
• Noorjean Hassam to Chief Student Health Officer, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC
• Lisa Thibeau to Assistant Deputy Minister, Mental Health and Addictions, Government of Prince Edward Island, Charlottetown, PE
• Patricia Houston to Acting Dean, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON
• Patrick Levesque to President and CEO, Vision Loss Rehabilitation Canada, Toronto, ON
• Susan Lynch to College General Manager, College of Health Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB
• Kathy Steegstra to Chief Virtual Health Officer and Trauma Services, Provincial Health Services Authority, Vancouver, BC
• Colin James to Sr. Director, Digital Health and IT, Guelph General Hospital, Guelph, ON
• Elliott Archer to Manager, Mississauga Halton Palliative Care Network, Ontario Health, Toronto, ON