Enhancing lives together: reviewing the process of an organizational amalgamation.

The amalgamation between two hospitals creates a transition period of significant change, uncertainty and complexity. It is a challenging time within an organization that needs to be managed effectively. This article outlines the integration process and eight-step framework used during an amalgamation of an acute hospital organization and a post-acute hospital.

Leveraging our collective investment in Canada's Healthcare System.

The pursuit of tangible mechanisms and measures to quantify the value-for-money proposition within Canada's healthcare system has become healthcare's own Holy Grail. A critical assessment and analysis of this age-old conundrum, as explored in the lead paper of this issue, forms the basis of this commentary which goes on to challenge readers to consider how healthcare providers can collectively act on the information and research available and begin to leverage investments already made with the goal of affecting real change across the system.

A visit down under: our journey to improve Canada's healthcare system.

Good health is a journey. It cannot be achieved overnight, in a month or even a year. Good health is perhaps best viewed as a quest - an evolution that takes ongoing commitment and often requires compromise, sacrifice and a lot of simple hard work.

Powering the future: how Hamilton Health Sciences put cogeneration to work for healthcare.

The absolute necessity of a stable and uninterrupted power supply within hospitals makes many of these facilities uniquely suited to cogeneration plants. Hamilton Health Sciences recently completed the largest hospital cogeneration project ever undertaken in the country. Spanning three acute care hospitals and generating a combined total of 22.

Integration of cancer services in Ontario: the story of getting it done.

Leaders in healthcare have known for years that integrating service delivery makes sense, yet paradoxically across Canada, despite major system restructuring, cancer care has remained the exception. In Ontario it was recognized that this was an area both ripe for and in need of change. The economic impact associated with the growing burden of cancer in Ontario has been well documented.