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Now in its 14th year, the Greater Toronto’s Top Employers competition has become the standard for measuring outstanding workplaces across the region.

HIROC’s fourth consecutive win was announced on Friday, December 6, in Toronto and is also being commemorated in a special magazine in The Globe and Mail.

Thank you to Carol Annett, President and CEO of VHA Home HealthCare and our Guest Editor for the December issue of The HIROC Insider. Carol looks to the year ahead and the importance of having an open and inquiring mind, a big heart, and the courage to take risks.

This year HIROC received an impressive 47 proposal submissions to the 2019 Safety Grants Program. 

The 2019 program focused on obstetrical-perinatal harm – a significant medical-legal and patient safety issue for healthcare systems and for those they serve, newborns and their families. 

Of the 47 applications, five HIROC subscribers have been named 2019 Safety Grant recipients. They are:

“To set ourselves up for success, we need to focus on partnerships,” said Greg King, Vice President, Finance and Operations for HIROC. King was a panelist at this year’s Canadian Association of Insurance Reciprocals’ (CAIR) 2019 members meeting.  

Strategies to avoid or reduce the impact of common property claims in winter

Rocky Prosser on keeping staff, patients and facilities safe at Kingston Health Sciences Centre

Boundary Trails Health Centre recognized with 2018 Salus Global Patient Safety Award

Over the last few months, hundreds of thousands of Canadians have had their personal information stolen or exposed online. This year, in particular, several multinational organizations discovered and reported data breaches involving the personal information of Canadians (e.g. Capital One SIN no. breach, Desjardins breach). While these organizations had significant resources dedicated to protecting themselves against such breaches, they were not immune. 

As your trusted healthcare safety advisor, we wanted to bring an important software issue to your attention. This article is intended to raise awareness of an upcoming deadline for Windows 7. 

We encourage you to share this article with anyone at your organization who oversees technology and security.

Key takeaways and more from the Cyber Security Governance in Health Care conference.