May 9, 2022 – With so many people focused on the physical impacts of COVID-19 and the added demands they have placed on the health-care system, it's worth noting that the pandemic has been equally challenging for health-care professionals specializing in mental health.
May 9, 2022 – Grace Hospital's Emergency Department nursing team features a mix of savvy veterans and talented novice nurses. And like all great teams, they've rallied together when it means the most.
May 9, 2022 – The residents of Churchill are a resilient bunch. Through frigid weather, rail disruptions and, most recently, a COVID-19 pandemic, the town's 830 residents have developed a well-earned reputation for sticking together and helping one another through life's unexpected challenges.
May 9, 2022 – Throughout the pandemic, they've not only been making "house calls," they've been actively working to find, educate, encourage and, occasionally, provide a little incentive to get their clients/participants immunized against COVID-19.
May 9, 2022 – For Rapid Response Nurses Karen Taylor, Dawn Siegers and Kayla Brown, working to help ensure their clients had access to COVID-19 testing and vaccinations was a natural extension of the kind of personal care the program was designed to provide.
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.
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.
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.
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.
April 28, 2022 – Winnipeg's emergency departments and urgent care centres are taking initial steps to address patient wait times, implementing some immediate changes while engaging front-line staff and physicians in identifying longer-term solutions to existing patient flow challenges that developed throughout the pandemic, the Winnipeg Health Region and Shared Health reported today.