The New Stroke Treatment Room: It’s a Team Effort
Recently, I had the opportunity to attend the launch of a new stroke treatment room at St. Clare’s Mercy Hospital. It was great to see such a turnout of excited […]
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A Story of Resilience: Sheena’s Dialysis Journey
There are over 624 people in Newfoundland and Labrador currently undergoing dialysis treatment for kidney disease. This treatment requires connecting a patient to a machine to remove the patient’s blood, […]
Get FIT: The Gift of Early Detection
F.I.T. Three little letters that can have a lasting impact on our health and well-being. When people think of ‘FIT’ – they usually think of things like New Year’s resolutions, […]
Mobilizing Hope in the ICU
Imagine spending months in intensive care, with limited ability to move in and out of bed? For Lawrence Murphy, this was a reality. “It was like my esophagus busted open,” […]
The Duffett Nurses: 78 Years of Contribution and Counting
Seventy-eight years. That’s how long Marie and Sandy Duffett have worked at Eastern Health and its legacy organizations. Both nurses, they met while working in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) […]
Acts of Kindness
In my position as a communications manager with Eastern Health, I write about the organization on a daily basis: its programs and services, its achievements, its changes, its challenges. I […]
