When you ask Shirley Samis to describe her two-day stay at The Scarborough Hospital earlier this year, she sums it up with one word: "excellent."
Shirley saw Dr. James Rathbun for an Oxford knee replacement. And she can't say enough about how well she was treated by him and the other doctors, nurses and staff she saw during her stay.
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A campaign to get more staff, physicians and volunteers to receive the flu vaccination has earned The Scarborough Hospital two top honours from the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC).
The Stick It To The Flu campaign helped increase flu vaccination compliance by 116 per cent at the hospital's General campus, and by 113 per cent at the Birchmount campus between 2009 and 2011. Last year, this resulted in The Scarborough Hospital posting the best compliance rate of any Toronto community hospital.
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Patients, families and community members of The Scarborough Hospital now have access to a unique, new multilingual resource centre staffed by community agencies and volunteers.
"The Scarborough Hospital's 'Global Community Resource Centre' is unlike anything currently available in other GTA hospitals," said Waheeda Rahman, Director of Diversity, Equity and Stakeholder Outreach at The Scarborough Hospital. "By providing information in print, online and through interactive workshops, we hope to empower patients, families and our community - especially those new to Canada - with increased health literacy and better access to community services."
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