Celebrating Allied Health Professionals Week
May 9-13, 2022
The WRHA’s many Allied Health professionals represent a wide range of health professions. Together, they are a critical – if sometimes unsung – component of Manitoba’s health-care system. Throughout the pandemic, they have demonstrated remarkable resilience and compassion along with an unwavering commitment to quality patient care.
Allied Health professionals include:
- Audiologists
- Cardiology Technician/Technologists
- Cardiovascular Technologists
- Child Life Specialists
- Dental Assistants
- Dental Hygienists
- Dietetic Technicians
- Dietitians
- EEG Technician/Technologists
- EKG Technician/Technologist Technicians
- EMG Technologists
- Genetic Assistants
- Genetic Counsellors
- Laboratory Technologists
- MRI Technologists
- Music Therapists
- Nuclear Medicine Technologists
- Occupational Therapists
- Orthopedic Technician/Technologists
- Orthoptists
- Orthotists
- Pharmacists
- Pharmacy Aides
- Pharmacy Assistants
- Pharmacy Technicians
- Physiotherapists
- Polysomnography Technician/Technologists
- Pulmonary Technologists
- Radiation Therapists
- Radiological Technologists
- Radiopharmacy Technologists
- Recreation Coordinator/Therapists
- Rehabilitation Assistants
- Respiratory Assistants
- Respiratory Therapists
- Social Workers
- Sonographers
- Speech Language Pathologists
- Spiritual Health Practitioners
Click here to read a special thank you from Mary Anne Lynch, Regional Lead, Health Services – Acute Care & Chief Nursing Officer’s message to WRHA Allied Health Professionals
Profiles in excellence
To help highlight the great work undertaken by programs and individuals working in various capacities in the field of Allied Health, we've compiled the following Q&A profiles that put a spotlight on just some of their many contributions. While we can't profile every program and discipline, rest assured that your efforts are noticed and appreciated. “Thank You!” to all of our Allied Health professionals. You are truly inspirational.
Long COVID Self-Management Group
The Long COVID Self-Management Group provides multidisciplinary rehabilitation for individuals with Long COVID (long-term effects of COVID-19) through self-management education and clinician and peer support.
Spiritual Health
Receiving a new diagnosis or learning to live with a chronic illness or coming to the end of our lives challenges us to sort through a wide variety of thoughts and emotions. Spiritual Health practitioners are highly skilled listeners and counsellors when it comes to facilitating release of honest emotions.
Victoria Hospital 4S Allied Health team
The Victoria Hospital 4S Allied Health team provides exceptional care to the patients and families of a 28-bed Geriatric Rehabilitation unit. Together with other health-care professionals, the team supports patients 65 years and older who require inpatient rehabilitation services in order to reach their functional baseline.
Respiratory Therapists
Respiratory Therapists (RTs) play a vital role in the care of patients from birth to death, as well as from the hospital to the home. With COVID -19 being a respiratory illness, the pandemic put respiratory therapists squarely in the spotlight - a challenge they've met with the utmost skill, endurance and dedication.
