Status Checks:

 

Expanded the Janeway Lifestyle Program to the Burin Peninsula.  This inter-disciplinary team works with families whose children have been identified as having risk factors for high cholesterol, high blood sugar, high blood pressure, liver disease, and weight concerns.
 

Developed and implemented an oral chemotherapy follow-up clinic, which provides assessment of patients receiving oral chemotherapy by an oncology pharmacist - the first oncology pharmacy collaborative in Canada.
 

Improved the public communication of Emergency Department processes and wait times and established a process in collaboration with NL Healthline to follow up on patients who leave the Emergency Department without being seen.
 

Further implemented a Volunteer Program for Palliative Care at the Carbonear General Hospital.

Home is Where the Heart Is:

The Remote Cardiac Device Monitoring Program

 

 

Imagine being seen by your cardiac health care team from the comfort of your own home – no matter where you live in Newfoundland and Labrador?

 

Imagine having access to a monitoring system that alerts your health care providers when something goes wrong?

 

This ‘virtual clinic’ has become reality for hundreds of Eastern Health’s cardiac patients in the last year, as the Cardiac Care Program has implemented the state-of-art technology known as The Remote Cardiac Device Monitoring Program.

 

They’ve been implanted with a defibrillator that is not only capable of ‘shocking’ their heart back into normal rhythm if necessary – it also feeds potentially life-saving data to a remote monitor that can accompany patients wherever they go. And it makes all the difference. Just ask Herbert Temple.