{"id":28542,"date":"2017-07-19T10:05:46","date_gmt":"2017-07-19T14:05:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/?p=28542\/"},"modified":"2020-09-25T15:32:29","modified_gmt":"2020-09-25T19:32:29","slug":"positive-health-care-staff-help-stuntman-stu-deal-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/healthy-tomorrows\/positive-health-care-staff-help-stuntman-stu-deal-cancer\/","title":{"rendered":"Positive health-care staff help Stuntman Stu deal with cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u2018Stuntman\u2019 Stu Schwartz and Dr. Kate Granger are inextricably linked because of their willingness to publicly share their extremely personal journeys.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Just after Valentine\u2019s Day in 2016, \u2018Stuntman\u2019 Stu Schwartz announced on social media that he had been diagnosed with leukemia. In front of thousands of loyal followers and a stunned City of Ottawa, he began a very public battle with cancer.<\/p>\n<p>Across the Atlantic Ocean in mid-July 2016, another public battle with cancer was coming to an end. With an average of six Tweets an hour and more than 1.6 billion views, Dr. Kate Granger\u2019s #HelloMyNameIs campaign spoke her mind, even when she could no longer speak for herself. Her simple hashtag and simple message \u2013 for health-care providers to introduce themselves to patients \u2013 have been changing health care around the world ever since.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Granger, who passed away in 2016, and Stu Schwartz are inextricably linked because of their willingness to publicly share their extremely personal journeys. They also share a message about the health benefits of maintaining a positive attitude, surrounding yourself with positive people, and the importance of building positive relationships with your health-care providers. Dr. Granger was given 14 months to live, but she survived for more than four years.<\/p>\n<p>The goal of the #HelloMyNameIs campaign \u2013 which The Ottawa Hospital joined this year \u2013 is to encourage health-care providers to introduce themselves to every patient, every time.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Stuntman Stu - The Ottawa Hospital\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kksGYiQWo10\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>See more of Stuntman Stu\u2019s story of positivity and the great relationships he\u2019s built over the past year at The Ottawa Hospital.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Dr. Granger said that introductions \u201cbegin therapeutic relationships and instantly build trust in difficult circumstances.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Schwartz has noted on many occasions that he thrives on the positive well-wishes of his followers, his community, and the positive attitudes of his health-care providers. When confronting something like radiation, \u201csomething no one wants to do, you need to make the best of it. Having positive staff is the way to go,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The Ottawa Hospital is the first hospital in Canada to adopt the campaign. Over the past several months, more than 650 staff members, from nurses and doctors to food service workers and housekeepers, have signed on to the campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Schwartz and Dr. Granger both said that positivity improves outcomes and the first step towards a positive relationship is a friendly introduction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Stuntman\u2019 Stu Schwartz and Dr. Kate Granger \u2013 who both publicly shared their cancer journeys \u2013 say positive health-care staff make all the difference. The Ottawa Hospital has joined the #HelloMyNameIs campaign, which aims to have staff introduce themselves to every patient, every time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":28543,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[13,429],"class_list":["post-28542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-healthy-tomorrows","tag-cancer","tag-hello-my-name-is"],"acf":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28542\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}