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Success Stories
Health care providers and others have shared their personal experiences and Success Stories to help us understand how to tackle malnutrition issues in Canada.
November 26, 2021 - Health Care Professional
Canadian Malnutrition Awareness Week 2021 at Alberta Health Services
Alberta Health Services (AHS) is a provincewide, fully integrated health system, responsible for delivering health services to more than 4.4 million people living in Alberta. We have proudly celebrated Canadian Malnutrition Awareness Week (CMAW) since 2015 through various communications activities. For 2021, our activities included: • Printed and distributed over…
November 26, 2021 - Health Care Professional
“Making Meals Matter through Lived Experience” by Stephanie Cox RD, AHS
During mealtimes, I’d often see patients being interrupted. I would see physicians doing patient rounds at breakfast time, lab techs drawing blood mid-meal, or nurses providing medications at lunch. With the support from AHS Nutrition Services and Patient Engagement departments I organized a lived mealtime experience for staff. It included…
October 2, 2018 - Health Care Professional
Canadian Malnutrition Week 2018
Providence Health Care had a great time celebrating this year's Malnutrition Week with patients and colleagues. For pictures and a summary of events, please follow this link: http://phcnews.ca/news/canadian-malnutrition-week-recap-photos-and-more From your supportive PHC Dietitians
February 23, 2018 - Health Care Professional
Canadian Malnutrition Awareness Week Success
Canadian Malnutrition Awareness Week 2017 @ Hamilton Health Sciences The registered dietitians and dietetic assistants at Hamilton Health Sciences (HHS) are excited to share our success story from this year’s Malnutrition Awareness Week. This is the first year that we have taken part so we decided to embrace the theme…
October 5, 2017 - Health Care Professional
Canadian Malnutrition Week at Providence Health Care
This year at Providence Health Care (PHC) in Vancouver, B.C. we had our 2nd annual Canadian Malnutrition Week campaign. Our events included an interdisciplinary panel presentation during the Health and Education Research Rounds, "Malnutrition Jeopardy" played on iPads with staff throughout the hospital, articles in the PHC news and other…
April 5, 2017 - Health Care Professional
Senior Friendly Hospital Accelerating Change Together in Ontario: A quality project to screen for and raise awareness on malnutrition in hospitalized patients
Over the past year, a group on a General Internal Medicine unit at The Ottawa Hospital has been working to raise awareness of malnutrition for patients admitted to hospital. The results and information shared from the Canadian Malnutrition Task Force study from 2013 was used in this quality project. The…
February 5, 2017 - Health Care Professional
Canadian Malnutrition Week at University Health Network
UHN spreads the word about Canadian Malnutrition Week 2016! UHN knows that malnutrition is a big issue in Canadian hospitals and was eager to raise awareness to make hospital staff and visitors more “food aware.” This is how we did it… • Created and distributed 500 pens with the tagline…
January 4, 2017 - Health Care Professional
Trillium Health Partners 2016 Canadian Malnutrition Week campaign
The 2016 Canadian Malnutrition Week at Trillium Health Partners (Mississauga Hospital) featured a large version of the Food is Medicine poster with the question “What is Keeping Patients from Eating” that was hung outside of the j-wing elevator doors. Smaller laminated posters were also printed and placed on the units…
June 7, 2016 - Health Care Professional
CMTF An Inspiration to other Hospitals
I wanted to let you know about a hospital alliance that took the message of the CMTF to heart and has completed so many practice changes that I feel they can be an inspiration to other hospitals. In 2014, the Huron Perth Healthcare Alliance (HPHA) nutrition department embarked on their…
June 19, 2015 - Health Care Professional
Dr. Johane Allard Presents on the Research of the CMTF
At Sault Area Hospital (SAH), we were fortunate to have Dr. Johane Allard from the Canadian Malnutrition Task Force, present to our hospital staff (all disciplines) on the research of the CMTF in Canadian Hospitals. Since the presentation (March 2014), we formed our SAH malnutrition taskforce with a multidisciplinary team.…
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