JGH Foundation

For the first time in Quebec, vascular surgeons are using ultrasound imaging to view blood vessels with greater clarity to improve the quality of surgical procedures.

Ensuring that staff feel properly trained, guided and supported is essential in their transition to the Connected Health Record.

As the launch of the Connected Health Record gets closer, the IT Department is playing a key role in such areas as cyber-security, user authentication and connectivity.

A new Emergency Medicine Simulation Centre that’s bright, roomy and technologically sophisticated has opened at the JGH.

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

Anti-cancer treatment is now under way with a highly sophisticated and versatile linear accelerator that’s newly installed at the JGH.

Although exercise is recognized as being good for cancer patients, hematologist Dr. Nathalie Johnson is taking a closer look at how it helps those with lymphoma.

A potential breakthrough in cancer treatment, using magnetism to guide medication-carrying bacteria into tumours, will be tested in a new JGH lab.

Hospital@Home, a pace-setting JGH program, allows certain patients to complete their recovery at home and still be continuously monitored by a hospital care team.