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Children’s Healthcare Canada conference inspires real talk on the health of Canada’s kids
 

“86 per cent of Canadians think the well-being of our country’s kids is better than it is,” said David Coletto, CEO of Abacus Data. Canadians might think we rank in the top five of forty developing countries when it comes to our children’s health – Coletto says we actually rank 25th.  

Partnership was the crux of Dr. Hartley Stern’s talk on December 5 at Longwoods’ Breakfast with the Chiefs. Dr. Stern, Executive Director and CEO of the Canadian Medical Protective Association (CMPA), emphasized that having organizations work in isolation is no longer the path forward – “We all need to be growing in the same direction,” he told the audience.

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.  

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.