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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.

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Caiti Wallwork (left), Manager of Clinical Services on the Geriatric Medicine Unit, and Sabrina Duckworth (right), Registered Practical Nurse on the Geriatric Medicine Unit, pose in front of a recycling station in the unit’s kitchenette.
These nurses invite you to recycle their idea

At The Ottawa Hospital, we strive to lead in sustainable health care — something we can only achieve with the help of our frontline staff. Geriatric medicine nurses Caiti and Sabrina rallied their unit together to optimize recycling and divert waste from the landfill. Find out how they binned it to win it (And we can’t promise you that that’s the last recycling pun in this article!).

Ron Drummond, The Ottawa Hospital’s Executive Director of Capital Projects and Facility Management, meets with Don Taggart, Manager of Property Operations, at the Riverside Campus.
“We never thought we’d save THIS much”: Big win for sustainability at the Riverside Campus

With just a few simple fixes and replacements, our facilities team has massively reduced the carbon footprint at the Riverside Campus — the equivalent of taking 229 cars off the road for a year. So, what’s the team’s secret green sauce? Read this article to find out…

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The Ottawa Hospital and YouTube Health partner to increase access to health information in Canada

Looking for health information online can lead you down a rabbit hole of misinformation. That’s why we’ve launched a series of videos with YouTube Health. Presented in both English and French by experts from across The Ottawa Hospital, these videos cover everything you need to know about an array of common medical conditions.

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Dr. Lisa Calder, new CEO of the CMPA, talks leadership, patient safety and the future of health care

Physician, researcher and educator Dr. Lisa Calder discusses the future of health care and how working at The Ottawa Hospital has prepared her for being the CEO of the Canadian Medical Protective Association, a national organization with more than 100,000 physician members.

: The Ottawa Hospital [left] and Israel’s Sheba Medical Center
What could The Ottawa Hospital learn from Israel?

Canada and Israel stand more than 8,000 kilometers apart, but when it comes to health care, their approaches are about to move a lot closer together.

Kirstin Henderson (left), practice lead for the ISAEC program
Clinic offers rapid access to customized care for patients with low back pain

Lynne Miles suffered for three months with intense low back pain that affected many parts of her life. A referral to the Rapid Access Clinic for Low Back Pain at The Ottawa Hospital offered her a new, empowering approach to managing it.

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