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Understanding the value of MRIs
This fall an 8,900 pound magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) unit was delivered to each of the Grey Nuns and Misericordia Community Hospitals. The units, which cost $2.5 million each, provide advanced diagnostic imaging abilities to the two sites.
Creating a nursing research culture: a discussion
Over 120 people gathered at the Grey Nuns Auditorium on September 10, 2005, to talk with Genevieve Gray, Dean of the Faculty of Nursing, University of Alberta, on what it means to create a culture of nursing research within health services.
Words for thought: On experiencing ground zero
By Marj Pettinger, Chaplain
On arrival in New York I was struck by the tremendous sadness of the place. It hung in the air and seemed to envelop everything and everyone.
Caritas Physicians Lead the Way
Caritas Health Group physicians are leading the way in the development of innovative primary care models for Edmonton. Primary health care is the first point of contact for Canadians with the health system, often through a family physician.
Words for Thought: Seeking Balance on Mt. Logan
By Jon Popowich, Corporate Director, Strategic Planning & Performance Support
Jesus taught that our pain is not punishment, it is no one's fault. When we seek to blame, we distract ourselves from an exquisite opportunity to pay attention, to see even in this pain a place of grace, a moment of spiritual promise and healing.
Annual Report to the Community Released
At Caritas Health Group, our work is rooted in our mission.
For over 110 years, as the provision of health care has become increasingly complex, our commitment to caring for the whole person—patient, resident, staff, volunteer, visitor—has remained the same. (click on the photo at right to continue reading)
Hope amidst chaos: Caritas chaplains visit ground zero
Dressed in helmets, goggles, breathing masks and aprons given to them by the Red Cross, Chaplains Ethel Steinkey and Ardelle Quigley stood in front of their colleagues in the Misericordia Auditorium to share their experiences of life at ground zero in New York.
In the News
The first of two state-of-the-art digital operating theatres and a new medical teaching space at the Grey Nuns was declared officially opened today. The $1.1 million project was funded 100% through monies raised by the Caritas Hospitals Foundation. (Click on the photo at right for details)
Good Tidings
In October the Government of Alberta made its largest-ever commitment of new funding to Capital Health for construction projects—a $647 M dollar contribution which will result in an additional 455 beds in the region.
This announcement—which approved a variety of major construction and renovation projects for Caritas in the coming years— "is very good news for Caritas," notes Greg Hadubiak, Caritas senior executive lead for Caritas redevelopment and enhancement projects.
Marguerite d'Youville: A woman of faith, courage and action
Marguerite d'Youville founded the Sisters of Charity (Grey Nuns) in 1737. It is the Grey Nuns who, in turn, founded the Edmonton General Hospital in 1895. Prior to that, the Sisters established what now Youville Home in St. Albert is. Marguerite d'Youville was a significant hospital and health care innovator in early Canadian history.
Breaking New Ground
Over the past century, Caritas hospitals have pioneered responsive programs and services to address emerging needs in this community. The Edmonton General Hospital, founded in 1895, was the first to acquire an x-ray machine and was home to the first hospital-based palliative care unit.
Compassion at Work
The dictionary describes compassion as "strong feeling of sympathy and sadness for the suffering of ill fortune of others and desire to help them" (Cambridge International Dictionary). The root of the word comes from the Latin word for sympathy – to bear or suffer with.
Never at Rest
Each year almost 390,000 people come to Caritas Health Group seeking help and support for life-changing events and life's daily challenges. Caritas Health Group is Alberta's largest faith-based provider of health care, offering programs and services
Caritas recognized for workplace safety achievements
Thanks to an aggressive injury-prevention program and an official nod from theWorkers Compensation Board (WCB) Partners in Injury Reduction Program (PIR) Caritas is now lauded province-wide as a safe place to work.
Words for Thought: On Reward and Recognition
Rewarding and recognizing people for good work is a basic principle of a Catholic Health Care culture, and a fundamental part of the Caritas people accountability policy. Effectively rewarding and recognizing people's performance is essential to enhancing people's natural motivation to grow, developing a positive sense of self worth, and to feeling the joy of making a difference through rewarding, meaningful work.
Deepening the Mission: Welcoming the Stranger
Being both new to Edmonton and to Caritas Health Group, my first few weeks at Caritas provided me with the unique opportunity to see health care and our Caritas facilities from the vantage point of a stranger.
Healing at Work
At the heart of the Caritas mission is the desire to restore people to wholeness. This respect for the complexity of the human make-up—the physical, spiritual, and mental dimensions of health—has led to the development of innovative models for care.
Searching for Clarity
What would you do when it’s time to discharge a homeless person from the hospital and there’s nowhere for her to go? Or when a family of a terminally ill patient is arguing over who can see him?
A moment’s prevention to save lives
A minor pinch and it's over. As Edmonton General staff member Cardid Saus receives her flu shot, she joins a critical battle to check the spread of this season's influenza virus.
Coming to peace with midnight questions
Each day at any given time in Caritas facilities, people receive news and face decisions that seem impossible for their minds and hearts to grasp.
When every second counts
"Code blue, code blue in cubicle two!" The overhead announcement sent chills through Anne Hapchyn as she stood at the phone in the hallway of the Misericordia Emergency department that fateful morning.
Responding to Unmet needs: supporting Edmonton’s School Lunch Program
"It all started with a fish box and TV program I saw," says Jim Micklos, Community Relations Manager with Nutrition and Food Services. In 1993, he and his brother – in – law decided to go on a fishing trip to Prince Rupert.
Caritas Chaplains Co-Found National Team
Three Caritas chaplains who offered spiritual support to workers at Ground Zero in New York City have come together again to co-found Canada's first Canadian Red Cross Spiritual Care Emergency Response Team (SCERT).
The Right Honourable Lois Hole on Caritas
Source: The Right Honourable Lois Hole - remarks at Caritas Annual General Meeting for the Community, 2003
It's a great pleasure to be here today to help celebrate the work of Caritas Health Group, whohave never failed to provide dignity, respect, care and concern for all.
Caritas Libraries: An invaluable resource
Don't miss the opportunity to explore the vast array of patient care and personal wellness resources at our very own Caritas Libraries.
Our medical library specialists are available to help you locate needed information, to teach you to use our print and electronic resources, or to order books and journals for you or your department. All Caritas staff, physicians, residents, and students are welcome.
Helping people feel safe at all times
In the wee hours of the morning, Grey Nuns Special Constable Steve Jones is conversing with a visitor as he checks the person's ID. His two-way radio crackles, and it's a call from Emergency, where a mentally ill patient is lashing out, uttering threats in fear and confusion.
Hope at Work
Hope. It's a small word with tremendous power. And it is a concept that has always been a part of the Caritas tradition of caring and service.
Building for tomorrow
The morning sounds of a crew at work on a construction site just south of the Grey Nuns Community Hospital signal a major expansion for Caritas Health Group's hospital services over the next few years.
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