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From left to right: Clinical administrators on site Kate Kinghan, Amy Coleman and Milena Gorichnaya.
Meet the team that brings CAOS every night

Don’t let the CAOS team’s name fool you. Find out how these nighthawks help make sure everything runs smoothly at our campuses and satellite sites after hours.

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!).

Every Child Matters orange t-shirt
More than a shirt: Orange shirts support healing and community

Pamela Meness, owner of Diamond Phoenix Creations, the Kitigan Zibi-based supplier of The Ottawa Hospital’s Every Child Matters orange t-shirts, says her business is about healing and community.

Ottawa Inner City Health’s Block Leaders
“It’s about giving them hope and purpose”: Ottawa Inner City Health’s Block Leaders program marks one year serving the community

Seven days a week, Block Leaders head out into the ByWard Market to help fellow members of their community who are unhoused or use drugs. They provide support to people in distress, respond to overdoses and even clean their neighbourhood — all with the goal of creating a safer and healthier community for everyone.

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.

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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