News & stories

Leading up to World Suicide Prevention Day on September 10th, WRHN mental health peer navigator Andrew Torrens provides insight into how to support someone having suicidal thoughts.

Waterloo Regional Health Network and Conestoga College recently marked their education partnership as WRHN’s mental health and addictions program received the Leadership Award for Exemplary Education/Practice Collaboration from the college. 

Waterloo Regional Health Network is bringing vastly-improved technology to a childhood rite of passage: having one’s tonsils removed.

To advance care at a hospital, learning has to be constant. Waterloo Regional Health Network has on-going education occurring throughout the hospital tailored to the varying needs of care providers.

Meet Monica Caudle, Kris Ronan, Nikki Weiler, Jeff Horst and Seth Jutzi. These young professionals are making a difference at Waterloo Regional Health Network.

From the Waterloo Regional Health Network Foundation (opens in a new window)

WRHN is using a bio-typer that helps cut identification times of various pathogens from days to just minutes in some cases…  helping inform care providers’ decisions faster.

New infant warmers are making a difference in Waterloo Regional Health Network’s childbirth program and neonatal intensive care unit. The warmers are critical to the hospital’s neonatal resuscitation program.

WRHN’s integrated department of pathology and laboratory medicine is using a new automated plate streaker in its microbiology lab. In additional to providing faster results to improve care, it also helps meet consistent standards when preparing 100,000 specimens a year for analysis

When a “Code Pink” is paged throughout Waterloo Regional Health Network, a newborn baby is having distress in their first minutes of life and needs assistance. Skilled care providers step into action using the best evidence to quickly and effectively provide this urgently-needed help.

WRHN’s communication technology clinic (CTC) has skilled and caring staff members using the latest technology. They enable clients to communicate with a speech-generating device or access a computer with assistive technology.