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Unity Health Toronto Newswire:
January 2023

New year, new newsletter? You bet. Each month, we’re rounding up highlights from across Unity Health Toronto, from buzzworthy stories to the latest in innovation to profiles of our fantastic people. Read on to see January’s highlights.

The MDRD team at St. Joseph's Health Centre

The MDRD team at St. Joseph's Health Centre

Did you know the Medical Device Reprocessing Department sterilizes more than 16,000 medical instruments in an average month? Give these folks all the applause! Head behind the scenes and read more about out how the team provides clean, sterile, and functioning instruments to our clinicians.

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Buzzworthy

Dr. Stephen Hwang

How our specialty programs support unhoused people

Caring for people who are unhoused is a core part of Unity Health’s mission, including unique programs serving seniors in the shelter system and those who need psychiatric care.

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Dr. Marie Buitendyk and Dr. Sybil Judah

St. Joseph’s opens
clinic for high-risk pregnancies

People with high-risk pregnancies can now receive maternal-fetal specialty care at St. Joseph’s Health Centre, filling a gap in Toronto’s south-west region.

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Innovation

These vending machines dispense HIV and COVID self-testing kits for free

The machines, called Our Healthbox, also give out clean needles, naloxone kits, condoms and other essential harm reduction and sexual health supplies. This St. Michael’s-driven innovation launched this month in New Brunswick with plans for 100 more across Canada.

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Our Healthbox

Improving patient care beyond our walls with Signal 1

Signal 1, a health AI startup formed out of a collaboration with Unity Health, has launched an AI-powered clinical decision support system at Grand River Hospital, a community hospital in Kitchener, Ont.

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Signal 1
Dorinda Sinnott and Allison Rinne Care Transition Facilitators

Dorinda Sinnott and Allison Rinne Care Transition Facilitators


Dorinda: “Everything we’re doing with this role is to make the discharge process run smoother and more efficiently for everyone.”


Allison: “You can’t navigate patients to services that don’t exist. Beyond Unity Health we need to continue to advocate for the best way to support people.”

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Patient perspectives

John Crisp

“The team (at the clinic) were patient, kind, supportive and also demanding. They meant business and that’s great. It’s exactly what I needed to push myself to get stronger.”

John Crisp, patient who attended the Falls Prevention Clinic at Providence Healthcare


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Quote of the day

“Captain of my ship.”

What patient Allan Carpenter calls his long-time physician Dr. Gordon Arbess in a story highlighting Unity Health’s team-based primary care as a model for the rest of Canada in The Globe and Mail.


Read the story at The Globe and Mail

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Providence Healthcare marks anniversary of the ‘Caravan of Kindness’

Providence Healthcare marks anniversary of the ‘Caravan of Kindness’

On a wintery morning 60 years ago, a massive moving day got underway in downtown Toronto. Visit our Instagram channel for more photos or read the story.

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