Will advanced IT be the saviour of Ontario hospitals?
The Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) has a simple vision: better data, better decisions, healthier Canadians. It does appear at times that we are drowning in data, raising the…
Ontario Shores Centre for Mental Health Sciences
Royal Ottawa — prosecutions fly below the radar
The Ministry of Labour inspectors have significant powers when it comes to enforcing the Occupational Health and Safety Act. What’s difficult to discern is where the dividing line is between…
Few anti-stigma campaigns based on evidence — Stuart
“Mental health is set aside as that other kind of health care we don’t want to talk about.” – Asante Haughton, one of three youth featured in the Ontario Shores…
Mental health: Death should prompt MOHLTC to look upstream at root causes
It’s time for the Ministry of Health to look at the root causes behind the violence and injuries that are taking place in the province’s hospitals that provide mental health…
Psychiatric Hospitals: The food is terrible… and such small portions
The nurse thought it was a mistake. A large patient at Ontario Shores Centre for Mental Health Sciences was given a plate with six pieces of ravioli on it as…
The best of Diablogue in 2012
It’s time for us to take our seasonal break and wish the best of the season to all our readers and posters. Next year will be challenging for health care…
Ontario Shores’ activists win awards from Durham Labour Council
The Durham Labour Council has honoured OPSEU’s campaign for workplace safety at Ontario Shores Centre for Mental Health Sciences with two awards. Local 331 President Yvonne Lewis has won the…
Ontario Shores fined $37,000 after worker suffers concussion
Ontario Shores Centre for Mental Health Sciences has pleaded guilty and fined $37,500 under the Occupational Health and Safety Act after a worker was injured cleaning and replacing ventilation hoods…
Operation Maple Video: Placing staff and patients at risk
Would you want to work here? Would you want to be a patient here? Ontario Shores Centre for Mental Health Sciences has been on our radar in recent weeks and…
More managers to front line staff has an impact well beyond cost of salaries
Asking how the ratio of management to front line staff has changed at a public hospital seemed like a straight-forward question. In this era of obsession with hyper-efficiency, you’d think…
Ontario Shores says we got it all wrong
Earlier this week we ran a story about how a manager at Ontario Shores Centre for Mental Health Sciences had used a YouTube clip from the 2000 movie “Meet The…