As the Chief and Medical Director of North York General Hospital’s Department of Medical Imaging, Dr. Ryan Margau is responsible for a department that does imaging and procedures 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Before the COVID-19 pandemic, his department was doing around 250,000 tests per year.
Tomorrow marks six weeks of working remotely by turns perched on a counter stool, a chair at the kitchen table or standing up and doing light weights during a video call (with the video turned off!).
As dedicated supporters of youth mental health care in our community, I wanted to share some insights on how services were continuing and being managed during this COVID crisis. I was so pleased and comforted to hear how our staff and physicians have adapted to care for our children.
Dear Friends, I took time over the long weekend to think about my colleagues in the hospital whose calling is to care for our community, no matter whether a crisis is local like the Yonge Street 2018 van attack or global and local like COVID-19.
As North York General Hospital’s Chief of Medicine and Medical Director of Critical Care, Dr. Phil Shin has played a critical role in planning ahead for an expected influx of COVID patients to the hospital.
Dear Friends, This weekend, I will be thinking of our city’s first responders and our health care workers on the front line, and many more behind the scenes.
The North York General COVID Emergency Response Fund has been established to help the hospital address emerging needs in tackling the COVID 19 crisis.
Dear Friends, As the third week of working from home (#WFH) presses on, I have figured out how to (mostly) flawlessly log onto “Teams” for video conferencing and (mostly) remember when I am not on mute.
My name is Alexander Hall and I’m a social worker in North York General Hospital’s emergency department.
Arjay Ordona, one of North York General Hospital’s geriatric emergency management nurses, has been calling geriatric patients aged 65 and older to see how they’re doing and provide them with advice during the COVID crisis.