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.

Healthcare Change Makers is hosted by Ellen Gardner and Philip De Souza, with hosting support and marketing by Michelle Holden, Marc Aiello and the entire Communications and Marketing Team at HIROC. The show is produced by Podfly Productions.

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Dr. Devin Singh: Tackling the Barriers to Efficient Care

(Access show transcript) Devin Singh is a multi-faceted entrepreneur and physician who is helping put patient safety and technical innovation at the forefront of care.

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Voices Lifting the Community with Celeste Turner, LGBTQ2+ Support Coordinator

Let’s call today Day One with LGBTQ2+ Support Coordinator Celeste Turner. It took years for Turner to find their voice and today they feel privileged to be in a position to advocate for the LGBTQ2+ community. The issues they face around access and inclusion are huge, but they say we can do this, let’s make today Day One.

Inspiring Impact with Trish Tutton

Thrive: Mindfulness as a Pandemic Recovery Tool. Difficult times, like we’ve been through in the past year, can take us to the physical and mental brink. Stress is a fact of life but mindfulness expert Trish Tutton says it can also be the source of our greatest lessons.

Episode 31: Walking the Same Path As Your Staff With Paul Heinrich, President & CEO North Bay Regional Health Centre

Years of post-secondary education in a variety of disciplines – before and during his healthcare career – have helped North Bay Regional Health Centre President & CEO Paul Heinrich develop a thoughtful and creative approach to decision-making.

Inspiring Impact with Moira Welsh

Happily Ever Older: Stories of seniors living with purpose and energy and love. After writing for years about the negative aspects of long-term care homes, reporter Moira Welsh did an about-face and in her new book Happily Ever Older, takes readers across North America and into Europe on a whirlwind tour of facilities with novel approaches to community living.

Inspiring Impact with Paige Fernandes

Workday Wellness: Addressing staff concerns about stress and burnout. An evidence-based solution to support staff working in long-term care

Episode 30: Moving This Mountain Is Going to Take All of Us With Jennifer Zelmer, President and CEO of Healthcare Excellence Canada

The scale of the challenge in health and safety is significant and Jennifer Zelmer knows the scale of solutions must match those challenges. Seeking solutions in the context of healthcare transformation is what drives the newly appointed CEO of Healthcare Excellence Canada.

Episode 29: Breaking Down the Barriers and Making Care Accessible With Dr. Daniel Pepe

Dr. Pepe, a primary care physician in London, Ontario and the Primary Care Digital Co-Lead of the Western Ontario Health Team, is always looking for ways to explain concepts to patients that break down the barriers and make them true partners in their care.

Episode 28: Dr. Lisa Calder, CEO, CMPA

As the first ‘virtual’ CEO for the CMPA, Dr. Calder is focussed on communicating three themes to her members: we’re here for you; we’re going to modernize the CMPA; and we’re going to do it in a collaborative way.

Show Summary

In this episode, we’re speaking with Dr. Lisa Calder, CEO of the Canadian Medical Protective Association, known as the CMPA. She stepped into the role in August last year and is the CMPA’s first female CEO.

Rebuilding Primary Care with the St. Michael's Hospital Youth Advisory Council

The Youth Advisory Council within St. Michael’s Academic Family Health Team is a place where youth develop leadership skills and feel a sense of comfort and connectedness.

Rebuilding Primary Care with Dr. Cleo Mavriplis

For this special series we’re partnering with the Association of Family Health Teams of Ontario (AFHTO) to highlight the work of several amazing primary healthcare teams. Family health teams provide comprehensive primary care and are based on a collaborative model where physicians, nurse practitioners, nurses, dieticians, social workers and many more disciplines work together.