It was a request that Elizabeth Rowland always feared from her doctor: "We'd like you to have an MRI scan." However, Elizabeth's decades-long fear of MRIs came to an end when she visited the Diagnostic Imaging department at The Scarborough Hospital (TSH).

 

"I have received medical care in various countries and when I received an MRI in Curacao, and later in Venezuela, I panicked," said Elizabeth. "Since then, I've used various methods, including sedation, to try to get through any MRI scans, but without success."

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The Scarborough Hospital (TSH) is one of only a small number of community hospitals in all of Canada to be selected to participate in a three-year case study on a new national standard on psychological health and safety in the workplace.   

 

The study, announced January 16, 2014 and led by the Mental Health Commission of Canada (MHCC), will follow the journey of about 25 Canadian employers as they become industry leaders in workplace mental health. The plan is to work through a staged implementation of the one-year-old standard while MHCC provides observations and insights at no cost to TSH. 

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For TSH Housekeeping staff member Ruth Shields, it was a simple request from her granddaughter that finally led her to quit smoking. "

My granddaughter asked me to quit. She's my one and only grandchild and a major part of my life and I want to be around for her," says Ruth, who was a smoker for 37 years.

"In addition, whenever I coughed, I was getting a 'pins and needles' sensation in my chest, which also made me want to quit."

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Situated in the most diverse community in Canada, The Scarborough Hospital (TSH) delivers innovative, high-quality patient care at two hospital campuses and six satellite sites. The Scarborough Hospital is a regional centre for dialysis and is renowned for its sexual assault care centre and mental health programs. Affiliated with the University of Toronto, TSH is also a referral centre for vascular surgery, pacemakers and cataract surgery.