It’s the start of a new era: A majority of nurses at the Jewish General Hospital University Health Centre are now recording patients’ vital signs in the Connected Health Record (CHR), a step that improves patient safety and leaves more time for bedside care. For many...
Getting a complete, unified picture of a patient's care trajectory can sometimes be a real headache. But now, these challenges are fast disappearing for Dr. Roland Grad, a family physician in the Goldman Herzl Family Practice Centre at the JGH. The key to this major...
“He ran toward the fire, putting himself at peril” A nurse at the Jewish General Hospital is being praised for showing courage and selflessness in quickly extinguishing a fire in the Emergency Department in July, an act credited with protecting the lives of patients...
Initiative directs some ED patients to physiotherapists, cutting wait times When Erika Villatoro Zamora turned to the JGH Emergency Department with severe shoulder pain recently, she expected a lengthy wait. After all, overloaded emergency rooms have been a fact of...