In a utility room on the ninth floor of Pavilion K, Storekeeper Alex Woo conducts an inventory of medical supplies that have just been delivered. This data helps the new AI replenishment tool to predict what kinds of items and how many of them will have to be restocked the next day. (Click on this photo to enlarge it.)
August 2026Spotlight feature

Utility rooms reliably stocked with in-demand medical supplies, thanks to new AI-enhanced tool

The Intelligent Distribution System minimizes the chances that shortages will suddenly occur and that certain items will expire unused.

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In the Postpartum Unit, Head Nurse Vasthie Pierre-Louis speaks with a new mother about her baby’s health.
February 2026Spotlight feature

Cancer during pregnancy: Fear, anxiety and, in many cases, a joyous outcome

Despite the difficulties faced by mothers-to-be with cancer, a multidisciplinary treatment team at the JGH gives them good reason to hope for the best.

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The Perinatal Loss Kit (on the table) was developed by Lauren Baer-Tenenbaum (right), with support from Nadine Fava (centre) and Louna Kadoch of the Perinatal Loss Committee, as well as a financial contribution and encouragement from the hospital’s Humanization of Care Committee.
October 2025Spotlight feature

Perinatal Loss Kit helps ease mothers’ grief after losing a baby during pregnancy

The kit’s contents provide emotional solace and physical comfort to mothers who know their baby will not survive.

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Dr. Osama Roshdy and Dr. Jessica Ho, a medical resident in dermatology, take a biopsy of a cancerous growth behind the right ear of Robert Bixenspanner. (Click on this or any photo to enlarge it.)
June 2025Spotlight feature

Odds of beating cancer boosted through cooperation among doctors in multiple specialties

In battling cancer, JGH physicians in various medical specialties work closely together to maximize the quality of treatment.

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Carla Peters, a Nurse Clinician with the JGH’s Nursing Vascular Access Team, refers to an ultrasound image of a patient’s arm as she prepares to insert a midline catheter into a vein.
February 2025Spotlight feature

Waiting time for intravenous catheters significantly cut by new nursing team

The Nursing Vascular Access Team relies on nurses’ expertise to help maintain the timely flow of patients through the JGH.

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Maria Rivera (left) and her 3-month-old daughter, Olivia, meet with Sabina Figueira, who is a Clinical Nurse in the Goldman Herzl Family Practice Centre and a facilitator in the Fourth Trimester Program.
December 2024Spotlight feature

New JGH program addresses mothers’ needs in the weeks after childbirth

The Fourth Trimester supports maternal mental health by providing new mothers with the skills and information they need.

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To keep physically and mentally stimulated while in the hospital, Louis Schiff participates in various activities—including a round of balloon volleyball—during a visit from Giuliano Rico, a volunteer in the Hospital Elder Life Program. (Click on this photo to enlarge it.)
October 2024Spotlight feature

JGH patients in program for elderly are likelier to leave hospital sooner, data confirms

The data confirms it: the Hospital Elder Life Program plays a major role in enabling certain elderly patients to be discharged sooner.

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A simulation exercise is conducted in the ambulance bay adjoining the JGH Emergency Department (ED). Residents in emergency medicine play the ED’s medical staff (in hazmat suits), while medical students portray the victims of a toxic chemical spill. To remove the noxious substance to which he has been exposed, a mock patient washes himself in the inflatable shower tent (centre), while his child (a doll, right of centre) is entrusted to medical personnel. Meanwhile, a mock patient in a wheelchair (left) is washed by medical staff using hand-held shower nozzles. (Click on this or any photo to enlarge it.)
July 2024Spotlight feature

Simulation exercise offers vital training in coping with effects of toxic chemical spill

Emergency medicine residents in a simulation exercise experience the real-world pressure of assisting the victims of a toxic chemical spill.

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Dr. Maurice Anidjar, Chief of the Department of Urology, destroys prostate cancer cells by performing a minimally invasive procedure known as irreversible electroporation (IRE). Irreparable holes are created in the cells by an electrical field that is created by encircling the tumour with electrodes. (Click on this or any photo to enlarge it.)
May 2024Spotlight feature

Improved surgical procedures offer new hope in treating prostate cancer

Minimally invasive procedures—one new, one upgraded—are viable alternatives to radical surgery and radiation therapy.

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At the JGH’s first robotic colorectal surgery on January 18, Dr. Allison Pang (at left, near the rear wall) sits at a console, looks through a viewfinder and guides the movements of the four robotic arms (at centre, over the operating table). Displayed on several screens are images of the interior of the patient’s body, relayed by a fibre-optic camera at the tip of one of the robotic arms. Observing the surgery is Dr. Susie Lau (right), an expert in robotic surgery for gynecologic oncology.
February 2024Spotlight feature

Robotic colorectal surgery launched at the JGH

Colorectal surgeons are using a robot to perform certain minimally invasive procedures with greater ease, accuracy and speed.

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