Hospital News

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

London Ontario’s annual St. Patrick’s Day festivities will be a little grander this year, as the Juno Awards, being hosted by the city, align on the same weekend: March 15 -17. Before the revelry begins, London Health Sciences Centre’s (LHSC) injury

March 15, 2019 On March 12 London Health Sciences Centre (LHSC), St. Joseph’s Health Care London, and Western University announced the formation of a unique partnership with Canon Medical Systems Canada in advanced Computed Tomography (CT) that will