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Finding information about your health shouldn’t be complicated. Healthy Tomorrows is a collection of health stories, insights and tips from experts at The Ottawa Hospital to help you and your family live healthier lives.

Neonatal intensive care nurses Lindsey Kilgore and Eunice Publow pose with Austrian medical resident Lena and the newborn baby girl onboard the plane.
Baby on board: Nurses jump into action to help deliver baby during flight

When a woman went into labour in the middle of a seven-hour flight, Eunice and Lindsey immediately volunteered their services. The two neonatal intensive care nurses had to rely on their experience — and a little improvisation — to help deliver and resuscitate a baby girl.

Firefighters from Ottawa Fire Services and Neonatal Intensive Care Unit staff
Watch: NICU babies and staff receive special Challenge Coins from Ottawa Fire Services

This may be the feel-good video of the year! After helping carry our tiniest patients out of harm’s way on October 27, firefighters return to the General Campus NICU to present staff, families and babies with a special gift.

Eleni Georgitsos (left) and Cassandra Thomas (right)
Nursing graduate receives ceremonial pin from her mentor

The Ottawa Hospital is proud to carry on the “pinning” ceremony to mark a nursing student’s transition into the profession. Read this heartwarming story of how one nursing student received a pin from someone very special to her.

Don Wisme
Second Chance: Don’s song for the people who saved his life

Making music has always been a big part of Don’s life, so when the staff and doctors at The Ottawa Hospital saved him from the brink of death, he could think of no better way to thank them.

A collage of nurses from The Ottawa Hospital
From pets to Pictionary: How our nurses build incredible teamwork

They might not grow playoff beards or dump Gatorade on their managers’ heads after a big win, but our nurses take teamwork just as seriously as professional athletes. Learn how six of our award-nominated nursing teams stay united and ready to face any challenge.

The Ottawa Hospital’s three main campuses
The Ottawa Hospital turns 25: A few things you might not know about the National Capital’s largest health-care provider

Let’s turn back the clock to 1998. It was the year that Apple debuted the iMac, Google was launched to the world, and Canadian readers first met Harry Potter. But did you know that our community also marked a major milestone that year? Learn more about how TOH came to be–along with some other cool things about our hospital.

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