Providence Healthcare

We held our third 2024 summer BBQ at Providence Healthcare last week. 🍔🌭 The teams at Providence enjoyed a delicious lunch, an art-making station and Dr. Tim Rutledge, our president and CEO, playing the saxophone with the band! 🎷 Thank you to all who helped make this year’s BBQs a success.☺️

An update re: the global tech outage: All Unity Health Toronto sites are operating normally and patients can continue to come to us for their appointments and urgent/emergency care needs. 

For 15 years, Providence Healthcare's golf transition program has been supporting patients across various units, particularly those in the stroke and orthopedic and amputee rehabilitation programs, to explore a new leisure activity, reintegrate into the community, and for some, return to golf. "The social opportunity is what we really like about golf,” says Mary Scarborough, recreation therapist at Providence. “We partnered with Para Golf Ontario for the program, so it gives patients the opportunity to create a community beyond Providence." Read more about the program: https://lnkd.in/eM2jm2zh

Providence Health Care is hosting the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) for an information clinic about TTC Wheel Trans services. 🗓 Thurs., July 18 at 10-10:45a.m. and 11a.m.-2p.m. 🔗 Register here: https://lnkd.in/geecSZmK

In the seven years since Unity Health Toronto became a network, we have worked to drive system transformation and improve patient care by harnessing the collective power of our individual sites to create the best care experiences, together. Unity Health’s 2023-24 Annual Report highlights the ways we have leveraged the connection of our communities to be leaders in our areas of world class specialty care, artificial intelligence and health equity. Because of these communities, we have accomplished many things: having our trauma program verified as a Level 1 Trauma Centre by the American College of Surgeons, preparing for our new Electronic Patient Record, and taking meaningful steps to promote equity and to make sure everyone who works at and enters our sites feels welcomed, respected and included. This report features the hard work and dedication of so many staff, physicians, learners, volunteers and patient family partners, and tells the stories of the incredible patients and families who have sought care at our sites. Thank you to everyone who has contributed to Unity Health’s achievements this year. None of it would be possible without you. Read the Annual Report: https://lnkd.in/dMM23Dfr

Myositis is a disease that makes your immune system attack your muscles. The skin, joints, lungs and heart could also be affected. It causes muscle inflammation that leads to progressive weakness and functional limitations. While there is no cure, there are effective treatments to control the condition together with physical rehabilitation. Through a first-of-its-kind rehab pathway in Ontario, a team of clinicians in rheumatology and neurology at St. Michael's Hospital and in rehabilitation at Providence Healthcare worked together to support patients with myositis to receive treatment and rehabilitation to manage their symptoms. The team held an inaugural symposium at Providence with the goal of building the knowledge base and educating Unity Health Toronto and community providers on the assessment and care of patients with myositis.

CHARTWatch is an AI model used to predict 48 hours in advance when a patient may need ICU care or die. Hear from the team who helped create and now use CHARTWatch on how it’s saving lives. Watch the full video here: https://lnkd.in/gJjNsPsi #AI2Care Amol Verma, Chloé Pou-Prom, Yuna Lee

Unity Health Toronto is launching a network-wide electronic patient record (EPR) system on November 30, 2024. This system will transform communication and information sharing between patients, families and their care teams, improving the way clinical teams deliver care and empowering patients to play a more significant role in their care journey. Ahead of November 30, Unity Health is rolling out several new devices that are compatible with the Epic EPR system. Watch Giuseppe Cammisa, Senior Director, EPR, unbox many of the new devices, which piled up while he was away! #unboxing #haul #ProjectConnect

Hear from Muhammad Mamdani, VP of Data Science and Advanced Analytics at Unity Health Toronto, on how the network is using AI to make better decisions and improve patient outcomes. Watch the full video here: https://lnkd.in/gJjNsPsi #AI2Care

July is Disability Pride Month - an opportunity to honour the history, achievements, experiences, struggles, cultures and identities of people who experience disability. Unity Health Toronto is committed to improving the experiences that people experiencing disability have within our organization. In 2023, we established an Equity of Access Committee to help identify, develop, implement and evaluate programs and services that drive accessibility at all of our sites. The committee’s mandate is to ensure continued compliance with the regulatory requirements as outlined in the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA), coordinate ongoing accessibility efforts and support a culture of anti-ableism across all Unity Health sites. Several clinics, patient and family partners and teams across Unity Health are also spearheading efforts to improve accessibility in all of our spaces and systems. You can learn more about these efforts and the Equity of Access Committee in this web story: https://lnkd.in/gdC5xaip Wishing everyone a meaningful Disability Pride Month.