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Using Mass Screening To Combat Outbreaks
February 4th, 2021 News Articles Mass screening is an important weapon in preventing COVID-19 outbreaks on hospital units. As many as 20% of cases are detected in asymptomatic individuals. Line Breault, Manager – Prevention and health promotion When an …
More vaccinations!
February 25th, 2021 Articles News Staff are eagerly sending in their post-vaccination pictures, and we're thrilled to share them with you. On behalf of our patients, staff, and our city, thank you healthcare workers for saying yes to the vaccine! …
THANK YOU: National Nursing Week 2020
May 13th, 2020 Articles News A heartfelt thank you from Chantal Souligny, director of nursing at the McGill University Health Centre, In honour of National Nursing Week …
CHAMPIONS in Occupational Therapy
May 21st, 2020 Articles News Jaclyn Stevenson, occupational therapist When you speak from the heart, you use the language of CHAMPIONS. Jaclyn Stevenson, an occupational therapist, faced a language barrier with a patient on the COVID unit and …
“We are thinking of you”
May 26th, 2020 Articles News “We want COVID patients to know that we are thinking of them,” says Catherine Barnes, a secondary 5 student who mobilized her friends and members of her community to hand craft Get Well cards for patients being treated for …
CHAMPIONS at the Lachine Hospital
May 29th, 2020 Articles News When difficult times bring out the best in your colleagues, you know you belong to a team of CHAMPIONS. At the Lachine Hospital, a championship was won when three medical tents were installed in record time, making sure the …
Improvement, empowerment, autonomy: Physiotherapists aim at getting COVID patients back on their feet
May 29th, 2020 Articles News (six, from left to right) : Suma Das, Joe Pazienza, Patricia Barassi, Maria Pourasadi, Angelo Simonelli and Angela Di Girolamo (COVID physio team, absent: Timothy Ho) May is known as National Physiotherapy Month and this …
MGH resuscitation tent provides critical support and space during COVID-19 pandemic
June 1st, 2020 Articles News Stephanie Di Nunzio, Assistant a nurse manager - Dr. Mathieu Toulouse, Trauma Fellow - Adam Burcheri, Unit coordinator Rachel Nadeau, Nurse - Simon Cloutier-Gagné, Nurse - Jeanesse Bourgeois, Assistant nurse manager Jacques …
MUHC Prevention and Health Promotion team: meeting the demands of COVID-19
June 4th, 2020 Articles News Thanks in large part to the fastidious work of the Prevention and Health Promotion (PHP) department, the McGill University Health Centre (MUHC) has recorded a remarkably low level of nosocomial infections of COVID-19 . How? …
Collaborative recycling
June 5th, 2020 Articles News Members of the Armenian community sewing masks out of the wrappers' fabric How unprecedented collaboration is at work to support our healthcare professionals - while recycling! “This is what it’s all about,” says Steeve …