“ The Government of Canada has projected that 60 million doses of vaccine will be available to ensure that every Canadian can be vaccinated by September 2021.”
Anne W. Snowdon, Alexandra Wright and Michael Saunders

Insights

Living Our Lessons: The Roadmap for the Healthcare System of Tomorrow

Lisa Purdy, Sarah Newbery, Chris Wilson, Erik Sande and Bernard Lord

The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the urgency to fix the fundamental pain points in our system and implement a vision for the future of healthcare that meets patients’ needs. It has also armed us with a new frame of mind for accomplishing just that by generating real-world opportunities to pressure-test concepts, forge dynamic collaborations and expand existing approaches for wider adoption.

Off the Cuff

In an uncertain time, Steini Brown has been the Ontario science table’s model of certainty

Tam urges second doses as Delta variant emerges ‘essentially across Canada’

2nd dose vaccine eligibility expands, 2 new deaths linked to Alpha COVID-19 variant

Ontario 'actively considering' prioritizing second doses of COVID-19 vaccine to hot-spot areas

Pharmacies prepare for 2nd doses of AstraZeneca vaccine

Canada now among top countries for 1st doses of COVID-19 vaccines. So how high can we go?

Doctors torn on reopening as some ICUs still grapple with COVID-19 patients

Three communities declare state of emergency as COVID-19 cases spike in Northern Ontario

B.C. Interior care homes receive national grant to strengthen future pandemic response

Winnipeg ER doctors pen letter to province, health authorities over senior nurses quitting

Spat at, abused, attacked: healthcare staff face rising violence during COVID

The invisible wounds inflicted by pandemic journalism: André Picard

Three leaders discuss driving change in unprecedented times – this Wednesday join Tara Kessaram, World Health Organization, Adriaan Van Rensburg, University Health Network and Atif Zia, Novocol Pharma.

Did you miss Addressing the needs of executive-level decision-makers in areas related to security, operations, risk, human resources, clinical operations, emergency management, and supply chains. Watch on-demand with Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, President Bill Clinton, Dr. Madeleine K. Albright and more

More from the Longwoods Archives:

• Developing Competencies for Health System Impact: Early Lessons learned from the Health System Impact Fellows by Meghan McMahon, Adalsteinn Brown, Stephen Bornstei and Robyn Tamblyn (Healthcare Policy, 2019)
• The Challenge of Rural and Northern Health Systems by Adalsteinn D. Brown (Healthcare Papers, 2018)
• Exploring Mentorship as a Strategy to Build Capacity and Optimize the Embedded Scientist Workforce by Stephen Bornstein, Meghan McMahon, Verna Yiu, Vinita Haroun, Heather Manson, Paul Holyoke, Tracy Wasylak, Robyn Tamblyn and Adalsteinn Brown (Healthcare Policy, 2019)
• Getting to Now: The Challenge of Stimulating Innovation in Complex Systems by Adalsteinn D. Brown and William Charnetski (Healthcare Papers, 2017)

Events

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News

• Indigenous health professionals describe from the inside the systemic racism revealed in the Echaquan inquest
• More Ontarians can book 2nd vaccine shot through provincial system
• A tale of two pandemics: AIDS and COVID-19: André Picard
• COVID-19 shows pharmacists have bigger role to play in Canada's healthcare system, experts say
• Ontario set to enter province wide COVID-19 reopening plan on June 11
• G7 health ministers won’t commit to timeline for sharing COVID-19 vaccine supply with low-income countries
• Nursing homes with repeated violations continue to break law, despite Ontario's promise to crack down
• Royal Victoria Regional Health Centre Selects Everbridge to Improve Patient and Visitor Experience with Industry-Leading Wayfinding Solution
• The Mental Health Commission of Canada and CCHL Partner to Offer a Health Leadership Specialty in Psychological Health and Safety in the Workplace
• ICN calls on G7 leaders to put nurses at the heart of a new pandemic treaty after WHO confirms 115,000 health and care workers have died from COVID-19 so far
• Canada to recommend mixing and matching AstraZeneca, Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines 

Conferences

• June 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
• June 9, 2021: Webinar. Healthcare and Life Sciences Leadership in Unprecedented Times
• June 15, 2021: Virtual. Canada Health Infoway: Improving Patient / Caregiver Digital Health Literacy
• July 20, 2021: Virtual. Canada Health Infoway: Partnering for Success
• October 4-6, 2021: Toronto. North American Conference on Integrated Care

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• Associate Director, Program Operations - PACE Independent Living, Toronto, ON
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Transitions

• Lori Beach to Interim Director, Mobile Vaccination Strategy and Delivery, University Health Network, Toronto, ON
• Natalie Stake-Doucet to Clinical Nurse, CIUSSS du Centre-Sud-de-l'Île-de-Montréal, Montreal, QC
• Marie-Douce Primeau to Coordinator, International Health Unit, Montreal, QC
• Jimmy Yang to Managing Director, Strategy and Consulting, Health, Accenture, Toronto, ON
• Dvorah Richier to Head, Breakthroughs, Innovation Hive, Roche, Mississauga, ON
• Frank Cesa to Director, Policy and Planning, Controlled Substance and Cannabis, Health Canada, Ottawa, ON
• Roberta Timothy to Black Health Lead, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON
• Amélie Fortin to Chief Pharmacist, Cree Board of Health and Social Services of James Bay, Chisasibi, QC
• Ingrid Waldron to HOPE Chair in Peace and Health, Faculty of Humanities, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON
• Jack Mintz to Board Member, Alberta Health Services, Edmonton, AB
• Bobby Gheorghiu to Director Analytics, Canada Health Infoway, Toronto, ON
• Bethany Foster to Chair, Department of Pediatrics, McGill University and Pediatrician in Chief, McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, QC
• Matt Ainley to Board Chair, Scarborough Health Network, Toronto, ON
• John Gilbert to Interim Director, Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC
• Conor Cox to R4 Program Lead, Internal Medicine Program, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON
• David Rudoler to Research Chair in Population Health and Innovation in Mental Health, Ontario Shores and Dalla Lana School of Public Health, Toronto, ON
• Ken McMillan to Interim Information Technology Director, Lakeridge Health, Oshawa, ON