Hard times can bring out the best in people, and this year has been no exception. Meet a group of Jewish General Hospital staffers who have gone above and beyond, even under exceptionally difficult circumstances. One sewed tiny Superman capes for premature babies....
For several weeks, the last thing Pharmacist Wangqi Chen did before going to bed was check his iPhone. He wasn’t looking at his Facebook feed. He was making sure that the freezer containing COVID-19 vaccines at the Maimonides Geriatric Centre was cold enough. The...
Donation to cancer patient praised as “heroic” One day in late December, Emélie Elkrief flew thousands of kilometres to give a life-saving gift to a perfect stranger. A Nurse Clinician in the Jewish General Hospital’s Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Ms. Elkrief...
Nearly all the orderlies who joined our CIUSSS during the coronavirus crisis remain on the job Dave Morin was a manager in a downtown Montreal restaurant when the COVID-19 pandemic struck, and it changed the course of his life. The 36-year-old decided to swap food...
It’s not every day that celebrities join forces with directors from our CIUSSS to extend a message of thanks to staff. But then, this is no ordinary year. To mark the end of 2020, Montreal personalities and senior managers from CIUSSS West-Central Montreal have come...
After Ezra Jeffrey died of COVID-19, co-workers made sure his memory lived on Ezra Jeffrey was an orderly who gave to others before he took for himself. He always brought an extra coffee for a colleague. He shared his lunch if someone forgot theirs. And at the annual...
The 2020 edition of our CIUSSS’s staff photo contest commemorates a year like no other. For those who lived through it, the period will be remembered for intense work, innovation, and, above all, solidarity. To mark this exceptional year, we are featuring photos...
They’ve quick, they’re agile, and they move in swiftly to avert a crisis. No wonder they’re known as the COVID-19 SWAT team. Since the start of the pandemic, a multi-disciplinary team from our CIUSSS has been working behind the scenes to tackle one of the most...
When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, Psycho-educator Rachelle Fagen noticed that some families in the Child Psychiatry Program of the Jewish General Hospital were struggling. Deprived of their usual livelihoods, they were having a hard time making ends meet. So Ms. Fagen...
To focus on care’s “human side,” staff taped photos of their faces to their protective gowns When Nurse Suzanne Djomkam was told in April she would be working with COVID-19 patients, her first response was panic. “I was in shock. I was afraid I’d get contaminated and...