Bridgepoint Health halfway to completion
By Joanna Lavoie, Beach-Riverdale Mirror, Inside Toronto, October 28, 2011
Bridgepoint's exciting 'Topping Off' ceremony is profiled in this article.
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Bridgepoint Hospital Celebrates Its Topping Off
By Dumitru Onceanu, Urban Toronto, October 27, 2011
An article on Bridgepoint's Topping Off event including photos of the construction, the restoration of the Don Jail and the event.
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Bridgepoint Health's New Hospital Project Creating Jobs and Economic Development
Infrastructure Ontario, October 26, 2011
The news release from Infrastructure Ontario about Bridgepoint Health’s ‘Topping Off’.
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Bridgepoint Health recognized for leadership in patient safety education
Canadian Patient Safety Institute News, October 2011
A story in the Canadian Patient Safety Institute’s online news section about Bridgepoint Health winning the Innovations in Patient Safety award.
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A message from Canadian Patient Safety Institute
OHA Today, October 20, 2011
Letter from Hugh Macleod, CEO, Canadian Patient Safety Institute recognizing Bridgepoint Health's Innovations in Patient Safety Award.
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PCL Constructors installs glass at Bridgepoint Hospital in Toronto
Daily Commerical News, October 17, 2011
Bridgepoint Health celebrates 'Topping Off'
Natural Health 24-7, October 2011
PCL Constructors Canada works on Bridgepoint Health Campus in Toronto
Daily Commerical News, September 7, 2011
Bridgepoint Health joins Tenet Computer Group and George Brown College in launching emergency preparedness software
eChannel News
Article focusing on Bridgepoint's participation in assessing a new application that allows health care providers to rapidly disseminate information related to breaking public crises.
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2010
Bridgepoint's new hospital named Top 100 project
ReNew Magazine, December 30, 2010
ReNew Magazine, Canada's leading infrastructure publication, has named Bridgepoint's new hospital one of its Top 100 projects of 2010.
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One hundred and fifty years of public health care in Riverdale
Beach-Riverdale Mirror, December 27, 2010
A profile of Bridgepoint Health - celebrating 150 years of serving the Riverdale community and the city of Toronto.
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Next-gen hospitals harness the power of innovation
Ottawa Citizen, November 16, 2010
Bridgepoint's exciting redevelopment plans and innovative patient care are profiled in an article from the Ottawa Citizen.
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Bridgepoint - Growing and expanding to serve patients better
Canadian Business Journal, September 2010
Bridgepoint's redevelopment plans and organizational transformation are the focus of this article.
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Bridging to the future of health care
By Joseph Hall, Toronto Star, September 14, 2010
Bridgepoint's exciting redevelopment plans, exceptional patient care and 150th anniversary are profiled in this article.
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Slow moves to battle body pain
By Francine Koplin, Toronto Star, July 26, 2010
The ancient Chinese martial art "qigoing", which is part of Bridgepoint's Pain Management Program, is profiled in this article on how it is being enlisted by modern medicine to battle the effects of chronic pain, cancer and cancer treatments, multiple sclerosis, fibromyalgia, arthritis and other conditions that can severely limit mobility.
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10 Canadian projects honoured in global infrastructure report
By Mike De Souza, Canwest News Service, June 23, 2010
Bridgepoint Health's new hospital project is honoured in a global infrastructure report that showcases 100 innovative projects from around the world.
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Fandango! Con Amore
SNAP Downtown Toronto, June, 2010
The 8th annual Bridgepoint Health fundraiser, Fandango! "Con Amore", attracted a sold-out crowd of 430 supporters to the Regency Ballroom of the Four Seasons Hotel with a decor inspired by the passion, beauty and culture of Italy.
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Charity CHIPS in to help long term patients at Bridgepoint Health
By Joanna Lavoie, East York Mirror, February 22, 2010
A new partnership between Bridgepoint Health and CHIP Charitable Services will help dozens of long-term patients stay better connected with their loved ones.
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2009
Over at the Don, new hope stirs
By Jenny Yuen, Sun Media, October 20, 2009
Gallows remain a landmark as Bridgepoint Hospital reworks a former forbidding jail into a place of deep caring.
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Bridgepoint Health launches new health information centre
By Joanna Lavoie, East York Mirror, July 3, 2009
Bridgepoint Health and Sun Life Financial have partnered to create a free information centre for the growing number of Canadians who want resources about healthy living and living well with multiple lifelong illnesses, known as complex chronic disease.
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Health information centre aims to promote health
Excerpt from article by Franco Cignelli, Hospital News (March 2009)
Health literacy is about more than just having knowledge. It means being able to find, comprehend, and use health information to make sound health care decisions. Improving health literacy is imperative in tackling health inequities, and results in patients becoming more informed and active participants in their health care.“ The majority of people who come into the Centre are patients and family members,” says LiveWell! librarian Bozenna Karczewska. “Patients are motivated to learn more about their health, to find more solutions and to empower themselves. The Centre is helping patients tap into the resources they have within themselves and within the broader community to help manage their conditions.”
Bridgepoint receives national award at IPAC/Deloitte Public Sector Leadership Awards
Excerpt from Q&A with Marian Walsh, The Globe and Mail (February 26, 2009)
Bridgepoint is a 2008 winner of the IPAC / Deloitte Public Sector Leadership Awards, recognizing Bridgepoint's leadership in organizational transformation and influencing health system change. The awards program, founded by the Institute of Public Administration of Canada (IPAC) and Deloitte, was developed to recognize organizations that have demonstrated outstanding leadership by talking bold steps to improve Canada, through advancements in public policy and management. Bridgepoint was recognized for becoming a leading voice in driving the health system to shift its focus from acute, episodic care to the prevention and management of chronic disease.
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Two Ontario firms win Canadian Architect Awards of Excellence
Excerpt of article by Patricia Williams, Daily Commercial News (January 7, 2009)
"The Bridgepoint Health redevelopment includes constructions of a state-of-the-art, 10-storey complex chronic care and rehabilitation hospital, a centre for research, education and policy and adaptive re-use of the historic Don Jail. KPMB said the adaptive re-use of the Don Jail focuses on transforming 'the dark history of the neo-classical penal architecture into a light-filled, optimistic hub' for research and communication."
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South Asians at a higher risk of developing chronic conditions
Excerpt from article by Franco Cignelli, South Asian Life (August 22, 2008)
Canadians of South Asian origin are three times more likely to suffer from high blood pressure than East Asians or Caucasians, and they are more likely to develop the condition at a younger age. South Asian Canadians are also more likely to have Type 2 diabetes.
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Famed lawyer recovering from stroke
Excerpt of article by Mark Bonokoski, The Toronto Sun (March 2, 2008)
...Robert "Bob" McGee, one of the more eloquent Crown prosecutors this city has ever seen, and who later changed chairs at the courtroom table to become one of the best defence counsels around.... Two strokes within four months still leave him paralyzed down his left side, his arm and his leg uselessly immobile, and Room 739 at the Bridgepoint rehabilitation and chronic care hospital is where he will likely remain until the eve of summer...
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On the third frontier of medicine
Excerpt of article by Carol Goar, The Toronto Star (Feb. 18, 2008)
Bridgepoint is where people come when surgeons have done as much as they can; where they turn with a tangle of debilitating chronic diseases; where they learn to adapt to physical limitations. They won't be cured. But they'll get better.
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Old hospital now a "village of care"
Excerpt of article by Carol Goar, The Toronto Star (Feb. 15, 2008)
Bridgepoint Health, as it is now known, is where people go to learn how to live with chronic diseases and disabilities. Eighty per cent of its patients walk (or are wheeled) out the door. [Bridgepoint Heatlh] has launched an education program to improve the medical profession's understanding of complex chronic illness... And it has begun to turn its site on the east bank of the Don River into a "village of care" with a new state-of-the-art hospital...
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Toronto hospital fights "chronicitis"
Excerpt of article by Joanne Laucius, The Ottawa Citizen (Nov. 5, 2007)
Osteocanceritis. Neurodiabesity. Arthrostrokoma.
A Toronto hospital is using these made-up words on bus shelters, billboards and newspaper ads to draw attention to multiple chronic diseases, complex health conditions it says are "the new frontier of health care."
Bridgepoint Health, a University of Toronto-affiliated hospital and research facility, released a survey last week that suggests half of Canadians have at least one chronic disease, and 70 per cent of those over age 45 have at least two.
The aging population and improved treatment mean that some people will be juggling treatment for three or four chronic diseases, said Marian Walsh, president and CEO at Bridgepoint.
"This is the most prevalent health care issue of our time, but no one is talking about it," said Ms. Walsh, who added that chronic diseases eat up 70 per cent of health resources.
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A Selection of Other Articles of Interest
Top architect firms selected for Bridgepoint's redevelopment
Rehab equipment donated to Bridgepoint
Inside Toronto
Exciting career profile of Bridgepoint Communicative Disorders Assistant
Bridgepoint Health President and CEO Marian Walsh highlights disease management and prevention