Hospital News

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

March 14, 2019 March 14 is World Kidney Day, a day to raise awareness about the 850 million people worldwide who are now estimated to have kidney diseases from various causes. Chronic kidney disease (CKD) causes at least 2.4 million deaths per year

February 20, 2019 LHSC patients state the following values are what matter most when receiving care In April 2017, Patient Experience gathered feedback from patients, caregivers, and community stakeholders including advocacy groups, broader public