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Health care providers and others have shared their personal experiences and Success Stories to help us understand how to tackle malnutrition issues in Canada.
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.…
June 15, 2015 - Health Care Professional
Grey Bruce Health Services (GBHS) Implements Canadian Nutrition Screening Tool (CNST)
At Grey Bruce Health Services (GBHS) we have worked hard over the past year to implement the Canadian Nutrition Screening Tool (CNST) as a mandatory field in the electronic medical record for all adult patient admissions. Steps we took: • July 2014 - Pre-implementation data was collected by a dietetic…
November 10, 2014 - Health Care Professional
Dr. Keller Presents CMTF at Grand Rounds
We had Dr. Keller come and present at grand rounds in June and have since developed a Malnutrition Task Force cochaired by myself and my nurse educator. All of our nursing directors are part of this team as well!! We just implemented "awareness initiatives" with our nursing staff with two…
July 3, 2014 - Health Care Professional
Quebec Hospital Conducts Nutrition Screening
Since January 2012, a Quebec hospital has been conducting nutrition screening among several clientele: shelters, preadmission clinics, one-stop access services for persons with reduced autonomy, routine services at CSLCs, and hospital inpatients. If screening shows overt malnutrition or a moderate to high risk of malnutrition, a request is sent to…
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