A new program designed by a team from the Rouge Valley Health System (RVHS) will ensure priority patients receive their surgeries first. “This new program is about equity and fairness to make sure that you get your surgery when you need it,” said Renate Ilse, RVHS’s program director of surgery, endoscopy, and central processing.
On Jan. 4 of last year, 21-year-old Megan McLean started to feel cramps and sharp pains in her chest. Her heart rate would speed up and she would have no control over it. It would race until she started to feel dizzy, sick to her stomach, and at times even pass out.
Superhero Y Guy from the Scarborough YMCA was busy last weekend saving the community – from obesity. The YMCA hosted Megathon, a fundraiser dedicated to entice kids to be more active to help fight obesity and raise money for the cause.
A new program designed by a team from the Rouge Valley Health System will ensure that priority patients receive their surgeries first.
The Rouge Valley Health System (RVHS) is teaming up with Scarborough Town Centre (STC) to put on a heart-stopping fashion show.
Your local hospital has a sanitary sense of humour. The Rouge Valley Health System decided to compete with the Toronto International Film Festival this year by launching its own film festival, this one focusing entirely on hand hygiene.
Tammy Horvath is a former medical social worker. She is a mother, best friend and wife. She is also a cancer survivor. After being diagnosed in March 2004, with two children under the age of five, she was given less than a month to live. Now, seven years later, Horvath is living proof that cancer can be beaten.
The Rouge Valley Health System will hold a bed race behind the Scarborough Civic Centre on April 29 to raise funds for new hospital beds.
The director of a regional health facility in the GTA says plans to establish a cancer care database will help the people who need it most. Cancer Care Ontario has announced a four-year, $800 million…
The Rouge Valley Health System Foundation, along with Sears of Scarborough Town Centre ,held their second annual fashion show fundraiser at the Momiji Centre on Nov. 7. The event included a silent auction, prize draws, wine tastings and runway show.