"Whatever Job I'm In, I'm Going to Find a Way to Make a Difference" - A Black Community Leader's Perspective on Engagement and Advocacy.

Camille Orridge is a patient and community-focused healthcare leader who has passionately and tirelessly worked for more than 50 years to address systemic barriers in the healthcare system, creating innovative equitable health solutions for underserved populations. She has founded a number of key initiatives, including Pathways to Education, the Canadian Home Care Association and the Black Coalition for AIDS Prevention (Black CAP) and has served on numerous boards, as a volunteer and in her capacity as the CEO of the Toronto Central Local Health Integration Network. In this oral history narrative, Camille reflects on her extensive 50-year journey as a healthcare advocate, identifying victories but also areas that continue to be barriers for historically marginalized communities, such as Black communities.

#FAIL: Defining, Understanding and Owning Our Failures.

Despite our best efforts to reform the healthcare system, significant challenges remain. To some extent, our progress is being hampered because of our hesitation to learn from past mistakes. In his article "Systematically Identified Failure Is the Route to a Successful Health System", Zwarenstein (2015) argues that we must right this wrong and begin to systematically identify, acknowledge and learn from failure if we want to make true progress.

Interprofessional stroke rehabilitation for stroke survivors using home care.

Objective: To compare a specialized interprofessional team approach to community-based stroke rehabilitation with usual home care for stroke survivors using home care services.

Methods: Randomized controlled trial of 101 community-living stroke survivors (<18 months post-stroke) using home care services. Subjects were randomized to intervention (n=52) or control (n=49) groups.