Healthcare Change Makers Podcast | Healthcare Insurance Reciprocal of Canada

Step inside the minds of Canada’s healthcare leaders; welcome to Healthcare Change Makers.

Join us as we talk to leaders about driving change in our complex healthcare organizations. Learn valuable lessons about how to manage the bigger challenges and risks facing organizations today – the implementation of new technology, natural disasters, patient safety, and the big problem of congestion and poor access to care.

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Dr. David Zorko: Ensuring Children Are Surviving and Thriving

(Access show transcript) Dr. David Zorko from McMaster Children’s Hospital is committed to researching the critical interventions and practices to best help children not only survive critical illness but thrive afterward.

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Episode 19: Carol Annett, President, VHA Home HealthCare and the value of staying positive, finding good partners, and taking risks

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As the need for their services grows, CEO Carol Annett says the time is now to amplify VHA’s knowledge and reputation in order to lead the conversation about the future of healthcare at home.

Today, your host Ellen Gardner, Communications and Marketing at HIROC, speaks with Carol Annett, CEO, VHA Home HealthCare.

Episode 18: Where There’s Smoke, There’s Fire: A Conversation on Property Risk with FM Global and Kingston Health Sciences Centre

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Advice from the experts on how to prepare for the worst and mitigate property risks facing healthcare organizations.

Today, your host Michelle Holden, Communications and Marketing at HIROC, speaks with Dave Thompson, Senior Vice President with FM Global, and Rocky Prosser, Director of Protection Services at Kingston Health Sciences Centre (KHSC).

Episode 17: How Nathalie Pambrun, CAM President, Leads with Patience, Perspective and Understanding

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Nathalie Pambrun, CAM’s first Indigenous President, says being brought up in an environment that emphasizes a humanistic, relational approach is central to midwifery and her own leadership style.

Today, your host Ellen Gardner, Communications and Marketing at HIROC, speaks with Nathalie Pambrun, President, Canadian Association of Midwives (CAM).

Episode 16: Ensuring that Children are not Treated as a Disease Group, with Alex Munter, President and CEO, CHEO

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The biggest pressure on our healthcare system is not an aging population but chronic disease. For Alex Munter, putting children on the path to lifelong health isn’t just giving them the future they deserve, but will ensure the sustainability of our healthcare system.

Episode 15: Asking for What You Want – How Dot Health is Changing the Way we Look at Health Data

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For Huda Idrees, Founder and CEO of Dot Health, leveraging innovative health tech solutions means creating a better patient experience

In a special live studio recording, staff at HIROC had the opportunity to hear from Huda Idrees, founder and CEO of Dot Health.

Episode 14: How David Diamond is Pushing an Innovation Agenda at Eastern Health

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At Eastern Health in Newfoundland and Labrador, President and CEO David Diamond and his team are leveraging international partnerships to find new ways of working

Join host Ellen Gardner for a one-on-one conversation with David Diamond – President and CEO of Eastern Health in Newfoundland and Labrador.

Episode 13: Building a Psychologically Safe Workplace, with Dr. Jeff Klassen

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On April 29 in Toronto, Dr. Klassen engaged a packed house with his work around psychological safety, and his theories on what hockey and medical error have in common.

This special episode of Healthcare Change Makers was recorded at the 2019 HIROC Conference.

Episode 12: Standing on the Shoulders of Giants with Elizabeth Brandeis, President, Association of Ontario Midwives

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Elizabeth looks back at the past 25 years since the regulation of midwifery in Ontario and reflects on some of the challenges still to face on road ahead.

Today, your host Ellen Gardner, Communications and Marketing at HIROC, speaks with Elizabeth Brandeis, President of the Board of the Association of Ontario Midwives (AOM).

Episode 11: A career defined by being open to opportunity with Rob MacIsaac, President and CEO, Hamilton Health Sciences

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Although he believes you need a plan for your career, Rob MacIsaac has found that being open to opportunity and taking chances has led him in some interesting and rewarding directions.

Today, your host Ellen Gardner, Communications and Marketing at HIROC, speaks with Rob MacIsaac, President and CEO of Hamilton Health Sciences.

Episode 10: In Conversation with Deborah Gillis & Carrie Fletcher

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In honour of International Women's Day, a conversation with two inspiring female leaders on what it means for women to have mentors and champions, and the importance of normalizing conversations around mental health in the workplace.