Hospital News

Kirk Patterson, Patient and Family Advisor and Alicia Cooper, Patient Relations Specialist welcoming staff, patients and families as they arrive at LHSC. April 23, 2019 Patient Experience Week (April 23-27) is an opportunity to recognize and thank

April 12, 2019 There’s a subtle but important difference between equality, where everyone is treated the same, and equity, where everyone is treated fairly. According to LHSC’s Director of Patient Safety and Patient Relations Chris Harris, and LHSC’s

April 10, 2019 Volunteers exemplify the values of LHSC in their everyday interactions with physicians, staff, patients, visitors and with each other. They place patients at the centre of everything they do and they are guided by compassion, teamwork,

April 8, 2019 April 7- 13, 2019 is National Volunteer Week and the recognition is well deserved for the nearly 900 individuals who donate their time to help others at London Health Sciences Centre (LHSC). This year, three LHSC student volunteers will

April 4, 2019 The Excellent Care for All Act requires all hospitals to have and make their annual Quality Improvement Plans (QIP) public by April 1. The QIP sets targets aimed at making improvements for safe, timely, effective, efficient, equitable

April 1, 2019 While the morning of April 1 is a time for practical jokes and spreading hoaxes, it also marks the start of an important awareness month that is no laughing matter, the annual Be A Donor campaign. Each April, the Be A Donor initiative

March 26, 2019 Each year there are over one million visits to LHSC. These visits require roughly 25,000 pieces of sterile equipment per day, or just over nine million pieces per year. The Medical Device Reprocessing (MDR) team play a vital role in

March 22, 2019 LHSC’s pathology department is a tertiary care centre, seeing patients and specimens from all over South West Ontario. In the scope of this large practice, access to electronic health records (EHRs) through the cSWO Regional Clinical