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The latest from Waterloo Regional Health Network
Materials management: a cornerstone of exceptional care (and GRH team award winners)
July 13, 2016WRHN’s materials management team makes sure needed supplies get to patient care areas in a timely way. Their dedication to this huge role has helped the group win the hospital’s latest team award of excellence.
High tech treatment, compassionate care: interventional radiology team wins GRH award of excellence
July 8, 2016They make the best use of sophisticated medical imaging and surgical tools, combined with compassion for their patients, warm blankets and helping hands. WRHN’s interventional radiology suite team has won the hospital’s latest team award of excellence, recognizing their hard work on behalf of patients.
The Dietitian's Dish: healthy eating is child’s play
June 24, 2016Trying to make healthy eating happen for little ones? In the latest Dietitian's Dish, Jason DaMaren has some advice that might make dinner preferable to dessert!
GRH and St. Mary’s interim chief of staff wins McMaster surgical teaching award
June 24, 2016Dr. Peter Potts, the interim chief of staff for Waterloo Regional Health Network and St. Mary’s General Hospital, has won an inaugural award recognizing excellence in surgical teaching.
Freeport marks 100 years with garden party
June 22, 2016WRHN has marked 100 years of exceptional care at its Freeport Campus with a fabulous garden party!
Andy Medwid of GRH security wins hospital's award of excellence
June 20, 2016Andy Medwid is the kind of security officer who exemplifies and advances compassionate care at Waterloo Regional Health Network. Andy has won WRHN’s June award of excellence for his service to patients and the hospital community.
Stay smart in the heat to avoid an emergency department visit
June 20, 2016Heat-related deaths and illness are preventable and anyone can suffer heat-related illness when their bodies can't compensate and properly cool. It’s important to be aware risk factors and what actions can be taken to prevent a heat-related illness or death.
Photos: ION construction at GRH
June 16, 2016Take a look at progress being made through more than a year of ION light rail construction near WRHN's KW Campus
GRH's regional cancer centre hosts McMaster medical students for clinical exams
June 15, 2016For the first time in its nine-year history, McMaster University’s Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine Waterloo Regional Campus carried out the first-year OSCE, or objective structured clinical examination, at Waterloo Regional Health Network’s regional cancer centre the evening of Tuesday June 14th.
ION light rail update: emergency entrance open during construction; main entrance re-opened
June 13, 2016Crews are now working at the King and Pine intersection, which is the emergency department access to WRHN's KW Campus. The emergency entrance and intersection will be open at all times during construction. Crews plan to work on half of the intersection at a time. This will allow traffic to continue flowing at this key access point to the hospital.