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Success Stories
October 14, 2022 - Health Care Professional
2021-Promoting Malnutrition Awareness & Nutrition Screening in Oncology at Guelph General Hospital
Malnutrition and weight loss are common in cancer patients. Progressive malnutrition can negatively affect clinical outcomes such as weight, treatment disruptions, quality of life and survival rates. ASPEN clinical guidelines recommend that patients with cancer should undergo nutrition screening to identify those who require formal nutrition assessment and…
October 14, 2022 - Health Care Professional
Dietetic Interns lead Malnutrition Awareness Week 2022 at Hamilton Health Sciences
This year at Hamilton Health Sciences, a group of dietetic interns worked to design Canadian Malnutrition Awareness Week, which took place October 3rd - 7th, as part of their population health rotation. The theme for Canadian Malnutrition Awareness Week for 2022 was “Malnutrition Care for All.” Using webinars,…
November 26, 2021 - Health Care Professional
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Hamilton Health Sciences Dietitians and Assistants raise awareness for Canadian Malnutrition Awareness Week 2021!
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! Our main goal was to raise awareness about malnutrition in our hospitals with staff, patients and families.Our Activities:
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November 26, 2021 - Health Care Professional
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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…
November 26, 2021 - Health Care Professional
With the support from AHS Nutrition Services and Patient Engagement departments I organized a lived mealtime experience…
“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…
October 2, 2018 - Health Care Professional
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From your supportive PHC Dietitians
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
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…
Canadian Malnutrition Awareness Week Success
Canadian Malnutrition Awareness Week 2017 @ Hamilton Health SciencesThe 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…
October 5, 2017 - Health Care Professional
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…
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…
April 5, 2017 - Health Care Professional
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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.
February 5, 2017 - Health Care Professional
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.”
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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…
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