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Conversations with health leaders and researchers hosted by Dr. Kathleen MacMillan. Episode 5 featuring Ru Taggar is the Executive Vice President, Chief Nursing and Health Professions Executive at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre and Irene Andress, Vice-President, Programs, Services and Chief Nursing Executive, Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital

Sept 16, 2021 with Dr. Kwame McKenzie, CEO, the Wellesley Institute. 

There were huge inequities in rates of Covid-19 infection, hospitalization and deaths for low income and racialized groups. Data from the vaccination roll-out show similar disparities in immunization rates, but, these figures do not tell the full story. They do not tell the story of the many promising approaches developed at the community, primary care and hospital interfaces that have pushed Canada to the forefront of international discussions about sustainable health system recovery. This presentation will use examples from the pandemic to discuss how we can produce more effective and efficient health systems.

Conversations with health leaders and researchers hosted by Dr. Kathleen MacMillan. Episode 4 featuring Mike Villeneuve, Chief Executive Officer, Canadian Nurses Association

Conversations with health leaders and researchers hosted by Dr. Kathleen MacMillan. Episode 3 featuring Pat Armstrong, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, York University

Conversations with health leaders and researchers hosted by Dr. Kathleen MacMillan. Episode 2 featuring Linda Silas, President, Canadian Federation of Nurses Unions

Conversations with health leaders and researchers hosted by Dr. Kathleen MacMillan. Episode 1 featuring Dr. Anne Snowdon, professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship at the Odette School of Business, University of Windsor and the Scientific Director and CEO of the Supply Chain Advancement in Health Network of Centres of Excellence (NCE). 

Reflections in a Time of Crisis: What it Takes to Manage and Lead Integrated Systems of Care 

Viktoria Stein, Robin Miller, Jodeme Goldhar and Anne Wojtak

The leadership and management for integrated systems of care requires new capabilities, ones that challenge the status quo and overcome the institutionalized siloes within professions and within organizations. It requires shifting the way we design, lead and implement health and social care. This leadership imperative predates COVID-19, but the global pandemic has become the tipping point for change.

June 8, 2021 with Jennifer Zelmer, President and CEO, Healthcare Excellence Canada. Everyone in Canada wants and deserves excellence in healthcare, but that is not the reality for all. Access to quality care is uneven; health outcomes vary even more widely. And great ideas for addressing these challenges often get stuck as pilot projects, benefiting only the lucky people in the organization or region served by the initial innovator. While that doesn’t have to be the case, it’s also true that safer, higher quality care at scale doesn’t just happen. Smart approaches that move wise practice from spread to scale – and build resilience in the health sector – will be key to health system transformation as we move beyond the current phase of the pandemic.

The Power of Collaboration

Jamie McIntosh

As the second wave of COVID-19 loomed in the fall of 2020, hospitals in Ottawa, ON, and the surrounding areas were all short-staffed. Where and how would they find the recruits they needed? Their innovative answer was to stop competing and start cooperating.

An interview with Greg Hedgecoe, vice president of People, Performance Improvement and Diagnostic Services at Queensway Carleton Hospital in Ottawa, ON, and chair of the Regional HR Committee. 

Timely Access to Child and Adolescent Mental Healthcare Matters Now More Than Ever

Rob Meeder and Nadiya Sunderji

 

COVID-19 has amplified what was already a growing problem – children struggling with their mental health and inadequate access to specialized mental healthcare, especially physician-delivered care.