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Celebrating Health Care Aide Day | Lilith Hunter, 47 years of Dedication to Extendicare Tuxedo Villa
Posted: 2022-10-18Today marks #HealthCareAide Day in Alberta and Manitoba. We recognize the many dedicated Health Care Aides who provide essential daily care for our residents in our long-term care homes and patients in our ParaMed communities, every day.
We spoke with two HCAs making vital contributions to the lives of our residents and patients.
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National Day for Truth & Reconciliation, Orange Shirt Day: Indigenous team member & her sister provide meaning & hope
Posted: 2022-09-30Today, we recognize the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation and Orange Shirt Day.
We honour the children who never returned home and Survivors of residential schools, as well as their families and communities. It’s critical to raise awareness of the individual, family, and community inter-generational impacts of residential schools, preserve these stories and learn from lived experiences.
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Meet Vijin: COVID screener, new grad, Care Champion
Posted: 2022-09-08Through our national Care Champion program, we continue to recognize team members across Canada who go above and beyond every day for the people we serve.
What makes our Care Champions stand out? In this ongoing series, we’ll get to know our Care Champion recipients from across Extendicare and ParaMed. We kick off this series with Vijin Wilson, whose career journey over the past two years has taken him from Bangalore, India to Sault Ste. Marie in northern Ontario, to his latest move to our Head Office in Markham, Ontario.
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Caring for Today, Growing for Tomorrow | Inaugural ESG Insights report marks first step on continued journey
Posted: 2022-06-01In keeping with our mission to help people live better, this spring, Extendicare launched an inaugural Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Insights report. While this is our first opportunity to explicitly detail our ESG initiatives to date, we have a long tradition of advancing ESG strategies to improve the communities where we live and work.
![Photo of Recognizing PSW Day in Ontario: Meet Juliet Dandoy, a Personal Support Worker at Extendicare Halton Hills](https://www.extendicare.com/@assets/blogs-74/800.sq.juliet.d.jpeg)
Recognizing PSW Day in Ontario: Meet Juliet Dandoy, a Personal Support Worker at Extendicare Halton Hills
Posted: 2022-05-19Today marks Personal Support Worker Day in Ontario. We celebrate and recognize the many dedicated Personal Support Workers who dedicate their time, energy and compassion to residents across Extendicare in our long-term care homes every day. Thank you all for being a vital part of our care teams and of our home communities.
Juliet Dandoy is a Personal Support Worker at Extendicare Halton Hills. Juliet never loses sight of the positive impact she can have in the lives of others.
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Celebrating National Nursing Week: Meet Rosa, a Registered Nurse at ParaMed, Toronto Central Team
Posted: 2022-05-09It’s #NationalNursingWeek. At Extendicare, we celebrate the incredible impact made by thousands of nurses within our care teams, who provide care to residents in our long-term care homes and to patients in their homes and communities.
National Nursing Week coincides with the birthday of Florence Nightingale –a nursing pioneer and inspiration to nurses around the globe.
Today, meet Rosa, a registered nurse at ParaMed with the Toronto Central Team.
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Celebrating National Nursing Week: Meet Leona Utko, a Registered Nurse at Extendicare Vista Park Lodge in Winnipeg, Manitoba
Posted: 2022-05-09It’s #NationalNursingWeek. At Extendicare, we celebrate the incredible impact made by thousands of nurses within our care teams, who provide care to residents in our long-term care homes and to patients in their homes and communities.
National Nursing Week coincides with the birthday of Florence Nightingale –a nursing pioneer and inspiration to nurses around the globe.
Leona Utko, a registered nurse at Extendicare Vista Park Lodge, in Winnipeg, Manitoba, has dedicated her life to help the people we serve live better every day.
Celebrating International Women's Day: Meet Tatjana, Unit Coordinator at Extendicare Oakview Place
Posted: 2022-03-08Following the footsteps of her mother and grandmother into nursing has led Tatjana to her current role helping to oversee resident care at Extendicare Oakview Place in Winnipeg, MB. However, Tatjana’s path hasn’t always been direct or easy.
Celebrating International Women's Day: Meet Natasha, Senior Director, Corporate Quality and Risk, Head of COVID-19 Command Centre
Posted: 2022-03-08Natasha came to Extendicare from the hospital sector, where she most recently led quality and risk. She brought that expertise to her new role, involving leadership, infection prevention and control, quality improvement, risk management, and clinical education, and that includes leading the COVID-19 Command Centre.
Deepening our Commitment to Long-Term Care in Canada| Leading Change for a Stronger Future
Posted: 2022-03-01By: Dr. Michael Guerriere, President and CEO | As a physician, I have worked in hospitals and the health sector for more than 30 years. Seeing the growing aging population and need for seniors’ care services that lay ahead, I jumped at the chance to join Extendicare in 2018 to shift my focus to home care and long-term care.
I knew that the solution to caring for seniors was not to be found in hospitals. Seniors want to live independently, so we need to be really good at supporting them in their own homes as long as it is possible to do so safely. Then, when needs cannot be safely met at home, long-term care needs to be available to fill the gap.
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Marking Black History Month at Extendicare | Meet Mr. S. Williams, a resident at Extendicare Scarborough
Posted: 2022-02-28What are you passionate about?
I like to relax and have a cold drink by the porch. I am really passionate about working with my hands and fixing things. I love classic cars, especially Oldsmobile vehicles. I used to purchase classic cars at auctions, fix them, then flip them. I value relaxation and connectedness to people more than wealth.
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Leadership in action | How one Registered Nurse is Spearheading Clinical Excellence and Diversity
Posted: 2022-02-25Mildred Ababio started her nursing career in neurosurgery at McGill University Health Centre and has since had the opportunity to work in both urban and rural areas in Ontario and Quebec. She has also had the privilege of working with many different populations.
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Marking Black History Month at Extendicare: Meet Edmond, a resident at Extendicare Brampton
Posted: 2022-02-01Edmond says “As a Canadian Black man, Black History Month represents what we have gone through in order to be where we are now. Black History Month gives a chance to celebrate who we are.”
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Stepping up to assist those who need our support most | ParaMed continues its mobile vaccine clinic to deliver third doses to homebound patients and teachers in Kitchener-Waterloo
Posted: 2022-01-14Throughout the pandemic and long before it, ParaMed Home Health Care has played a vital role in home and community health care, connecting patients with access to the care they need. To help bridge care gaps in our community, ParaMed has once again partnered with Waterloo Region Public Health to continue its mobile vaccine clinic that provides homebound patients in Kitchener-Waterloo with a dose of the COVID-19 vaccine.