Chantal Desmarais, Coordinator of Medical Records
CIUSSS West-Central MontrealMay 2023

Protecting confidentiality of users’ health information in the Connected Health Record

Chantal Desmarais, Coordinator of Medical Records, is helping to ensure the privacy of users’ medical charts in the Connected Health Record.

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Mike Shulha, Ph.D., Associate to the Director of Digital Health, in the Design Lab at the JGH, where work is under way to develop the Connected Health Record.
CIUSSS West-Central MontrealMarch 2023

For Mike Shulha, transforming fresh ideas into responsive software is crucial in building Connected Health Record

As work progresses on building a Connected Health Record, Mike Shulha is determined to have the new digital tool respond to the daily, real-life needs of staff.

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The seventh annual Public Information Meeting of CIUSSS West-Central Montreal was held at the Jewish General Hospital on November 2. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic during the past two years, this was the first such meeting in person since 2019. (Click on this or any photo to enlarge it.)
CIUSSS West-Central MontrealNovember 2022

Embrace change to ensure ongoing improvement in care, CIUSSS staff urged

At the CIUSSS’s Public Information Meeting, leaders said ongoing improvements to care are possible only if change is embraced.

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Elliott Silverman, Associate Director of Digital Health for CIUSSS West-Central Montreal.
CIUSSS West-Central MontrealOctober 2022

Elliott Silverman plays key role in developing Connected Health Record

As a member of the Digital Health team, Elliott Silverman is looking forward to his role in developing the CIUSSS’s Connected Health Record.

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To demonstrate how communication takes place between residents’ representatives and staff in long-term care centres, Shannan Clement, an Orderly Coach at Donald Berman Maimonides Geriatric Centre, is assisted by Nayla Pallard, an Innovation Management Specialist with CIUSSS West-Central Montreal. The colour-coded sticky notes help to pinpoint areas where barriers or breakdowns in communication may occur. (Click on this or any image to enlarge it.)
CIUSSS West-Central MontrealMay 2022

Improving care by bringing staff together and ideas to life

OROT provides crucial guidance in the creation of solutions that match users’ needs t’s mid-morning and the elderly resident of a long-term care centre is becoming increasingly worried: Her relative was supposed to drop by for visit some time ago, but he still hasn’t shown up. Maybe he had to …

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Members of the PANDAWebRx implementation team at Julius Richardson Hospital: (from left) Assistant Head Nurse Parveen Ahuja; Licensed Practical Nurse Solly Thomas; Registered Nurse Chelsey Tanoja; LPN Rubena Michael; Discharge Planning Nurse Somayeh Majidi; and LPN Faryah Shaista. (Click to enlarge.)
CIUSSS West-Central MontrealFebruary 2022

CIUSSS-wide digital system speeds delivery of medication while boosting safety

Thanks to a CIUSSS-wide digital system, prescriptions are being filled and medication is being administered with unprecedented speed and accuracy.

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At the Public Information Meeting of CIUSSS West-Central Montreal on November 17, presentations were made by (bottom, from left) Dan Gabay, Assistant Executive Director; Dr. Lawrence Rosenberg, President and CEO; Francine Dupuis, Associate CEO; (top centre) Jean-Philippe Payment, Interim Service Quality and Complaints Commissioner; and (top right) Carrie Bogante, Director of Finance. The online event was moderated by (top left) Shaun McMahon, who is Associate to the Director of Human Resources, Communications and Legal Affairs, and also Manager of Communications and Media Relations. (Click on this or any photo to enlarge it.)
CIUSSS West-Central MontrealNovember 2021

Upgrades in user-centred care to continue despite pandemic pressures, CIUSSS official pledges

Despite the pandemic, numerous improvements are continuing in user-centred care, an audience was told at the CIUSSS’s annual Public Information Meeting.

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Montreal's Top Employer
CIUSSS West-Central MontrealFebruary 2021

Third year in a row! CIUSSS West-Central Montreal among Montreal’s top employers

For the third year in a row, CIUSSS West-Central Montreal has been named one of Montreal’s Top Employers.

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In a photo that she submitted to the CIUSSS’s “A Shot of Happiness” competition for staff, Alyssa Pambuan, a JGH Nurse and Stroke Team Coordinator, captured her team’s camaraderie during the COVID-19 pandemic. (Click on photo to see a larger version.)
CIUSSS West-Central MontrealNovember 2020

Photos capture spirit of staff solidarity during pandemic

In this year’s edition of “A Shot of Happiness”, the photography competition for CIUSSS staff, more than 120 photos captured the camaraderie of employees during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Screenshot from a JGH video: Healthcare providers use a manikin to simulate the treatment of a COVID-positive patient who had a cardiac arrest shortly after arriving at the hospital.
CIUSSS West-Central MontrealMay 2020

JGH Zoom presentation on treating COVID-19 patients draws over 500 participants from Quebec hospitals

To help fight COVID-19, healthcare providers across Quebec are viewing videos of simulation exercises, conducted by the JGH Emergency Medicine Simulation team.

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