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What does Black History Month mean to you?
To mark Black History Month, members of The Ottawa Hospital’s Black community share what this important month means to them. Learn about their experiences working in health care, the challenges they have faced and continue to face, and their hopes for the future.
Support aides: An entry point into a career in caregiving
Support aides help to provide relief to our care teams and companionship to our patients. It can be a challenging role, but it can also be inspiring. Just ask Jasmine, Keith and Ricardo. Passionate about helping others and guided by their mentors, they have all decided to further their training and grow their careers in health care.
“My craft is to make people happy”
As a shuttle bus driver at The Ottawa Hospital, Bill Nauffts knows that staying on schedule could literally be the difference between life and death—but it’s what Bill does during his break that brings him and others the greatest joy.
Becoming a living kidney donor has never been easier: Trina and Antonio’s story
Kidney donors like Trina usually face many months of tests, but a new program at The Ottawa Hospital allowed her to complete nearly all of them in just one day. Trina shares her experience as a living donor and how this new program made it easier to give her brother the gift of life.
After 31 years of service, Stefan Mayer will soon hang up his blue volunteer jacket
For more than 30 years, volunteer photographer Stefan Mayer has captured important moments at The Ottawa Hospital, from awards ceremonies to newborn photos. Soon to turn 97, he will leave behind an incredible legacy when he retires from his volunteer career with us later this fall.
Former patient seeks out the man behind “the voice”
During a vulnerable time in his recovery from leukemia, Gary Davis found comfort in the most unexpected place—the voice on our recorded telephone system. Five years later, he set out on a mission to find and meet the person on the other end of the line.
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