Enhancing your patient experience: What’s Next?
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Welcome to the Heart Institute. The new Central Registration Desk will be located conveniently in the bright and spacious new main lobby which means One Stop for patients when they arrive. Renovations to the original Heart Institute building will see multiple levels undergoing significant change. The installation of escalators will make a big difference for both patients and their families when they visit Heart… |
| Posted on November 26, 2018 |
Heart Patients More Concerned about Disability than Death in Year after Surgery, Study Finds
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Traditional cardiovascular revascularization trials have long been designed by clinicians to examine outcomes that are predominantly of interest to clinicians. These trials are sometimes referred to as “tombstone trials” within the medical community for their tendency to focus on death or other adverse cardiac events after heart surgery or other therapies. While so-called tombstone trials are extremely important for informing physicians about a patient’s… |
| Posted on November 23, 2018 |
Esther’s List: Top 10 Tips for Managing Stress
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According to Statistics Canada, 23% of Canadians aged 15 and older (an estimated 6.7 million people) reported most days were either ‘quite a bit’ or ‘extremely stressful’. Stress is the mind and body’s response to a perceived threat or stressor, triggering the instinct known as the fight-or-flight response. It can occur when either good or bad things happen in one’s physical environment, personal relationships,… |
| Posted on November 21, 2018 |
Coutinho: The Future (of Women’s Heart Health) is Now
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A White Paper published in the American Heart Association’s Journal, Circulation, is proposing a number of novel strategies for the improved future of heart health centres serving women. Dr. Thais Coutinho, Chief of the Division of Cardiac Prevention and Rehabilitation at the University of Ottawa Heart Institute (UOHI), and Chair of the Canadian Women’s Heart Health Centre (CWHHC), says most of the strategies deemed essential in the… |
| Posted on October 22, 2018 |
Patient Education Pamphlet
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This patient education pamphlet entitled “You Are Having an Angiogram. You Have Treatment Choices” was made to help patients who are coming in from home for an elective angiogram. To prepare for their test and understand all of their treatment options. We are asking for patient’s opinions to see how well the pamphlet teaches patients the information and tell us how it can be improved…. |
| Posted on September 27, 2018 |
Mars and Venus in Heart Failure Outcomes: Why Women Are More At Risk Than Men
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There are several inherent differences to the physical make up of a woman’s heart versus that of a man. For starters, a man’s heart is physically larger, weighing up to 60 grams more than a woman’s heart on average. Functionally there are differences, too. Arteries which feed a women’s heart with rich, oxygenated blood typically have smaller openings than men, causing women to be… |
| Posted on September 21, 2018 |
Get Involved In Our Research Activities
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Engaging patients is critical to our understanding of the issues that are most important for those living day-to-day with a specific condition. We are seeking appropriate volunteers to serve as Patient Partners in Research, to work alongside our Researchers and staff. You may be an ideal Patient Partner candidate and we encourage you to apply if you have experience living with a cardiac condition. Engaging patients… |
| Posted on August 18, 2018 |
Ottawa Heart Institute Annual Report 2017/2018
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PATIENT ALUMNI ASSOCIATION The Heart Institute’s Patient Alumni Association continues in its new direction set last year in which all patients are now made automatic members of the Association upon discharge from the hospital. This new approach triggered the need for a refocused strategic plan, a new communication strategy, amended by-laws and a renewed governance structure. THE PATIENT ALUMNI ASSOCIATION NOW FOCUSES ON: •… |
| Posted on August 9, 2018 |
Congratulations
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The Patient Alumni Association and the new Cardiac Prehabilitation program have recently been recognized as leading practice organizations by the Health Standards Organization. The Ottawa Heart Institute Patient Alumni Association was started in 1985 by Mary Clinckett, the former Head of Physiotherapy at the Heart Institute. She recognized a need to enable patients to stay involved with the Institute, to be kept informed about heart disease, treatment and prevention, and… |
| Posted on August 7, 2018 |
Quality of Care Committee
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Seeking patient/caregiver/family involvement! Introduction: The President of the UOHI Patient Alumni would like to put together a focus group of patients (former and current), family, and caregivers to support his participation in the Quality of Care Committee. The patient voice is central to the work of the Alumni. The Patient Alumni President, is an important member of the QoCC. As President, he represents… |
| Posted on July 23, 2018 |
Annual Activities Report 2017/2018
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Overview This annual activities report is the culmination of over 2 years of efforts from the team to refocus the Alumni. In late fall of 2015, Dr. Mesana and the Alumni agreed to a new 5-year cooperation agreement between the UOHI, the Foundation and the Alumni. The agreement allowed discharged patients to become automatic members of the Patient Alumni. To that effect, the Alumni… |
| Posted on July 21, 2018 |
Updates to Engagement in Clinical Services and Clinical Research
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Patient Engagement Framework Although patient-centered care and patient engagement are long-standing UOHI values, before 2018, a formal framework had not yet been outlined. The below was developed in partnership between the Patient Alumni and the Patient Partnership Council and Patient Engagement in Research Advisor Council Co-Chairs. A patient-friendly version of the UOHI Patient Engagement Framework was developed in February and reviewed by the UOHI… |
| Posted on July 21, 2018 |
