Hospital-Institutional

TORONTO _ The Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario and PatientOrderSets.com are partnering with the aim of optimizing the quality of care, improving patient safety and reducing healthcare costs.

RICHMOND HILL, ONT. _ Mackenzie Health is a new regional healthcare provider formed to serve southwest York Region, just north of Toronto. It will include two full-service hospitals: the renamed Mackenzie Richmond Hill Hospital, formerly known as York Central Hospital, and the future Mackenzie Vaughan Hospital, to be operational in 2018-'19.

TORONTO _ The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) has launched the Centre for Genetic Medicine. Its goal is to make individualized treatment a standard of care for all children.

In a reversal from past years, there has been a decline in performance for patients receiving care in the five areas identified as priorities by federal, provincial and territorial governments under the 2004 Health Accord.

MARKHAM, ONT. _ Community care provider Saint Elizabeth has announced the first recipient of a new scholarship awarded to graduate students aspiring to be Canada’s future healthcare leaders.

Home-care services in eastern Ontario are being revamped to focus on the most acutely ill clients.