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PURPOSE, VALUES AND PRINCIPLES
PURPOSE, VALUES AND PRINCIPLES
CARING SAFELY
CLINICAL OPTIMIZATION
PATIENT EXPERIENCE
CARING SAFELY CLINICAL OPTIMIZATION
TEAM ENGAGEMENT
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National Nursing Week: ‘A UHN nurse is…’ ‘Be Amazed’—UHN’s World Class Multi-
PATIENT EXPERIENCE
Organ Transplant Program
IT TRANSFORMATION
The slogan for 2016
National Nursing Week was
TEAM ENGAGEMENT
nurses are “with you every UHN’s world-leading Multi-Organ in kidney, liver, lung, heart, pancreas and intestinal
RESEARCH AND INNOVATION
step of the way.” Transplant Program is Canada’s largest transplant procedures.
– performing nearly 600 transplants The program is also a leader in living donor
But here at UHN, we think every year and providing world-class
they’re much more. And, it turns out, so follow-up care to more than 5,000 transplantation and innovative, cutting edge bench-to-
do they. IT TRANSFORMATION bedside research – most notably pioneering the ex-vivo
transplant recipients. technique of organ assessment and repair.
There are about 4,200 nurses at UHN, Based at Toronto General Hospital, it is one of the top
MICHENER INTEGRATION
making them the largest professional group five transplant centres in the world thanks to excellence Link to full story: click here.
in our workforce.
RESEARCH AND INNOVATION
We got some of them together and asked
them to complete the sentence, “A UHN
nurse is…”
Also Making News

Link to full story: click here. There was no shortage of suggestions for how to finish the sentence,
MICHENER INTEGRATION “A UHN nurse is…” (Video: UHN)

Also Making News First global summit about
hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

Stroke patient grateful to Krembil
team that ‘saved my life’

Brain cancer at 26 – How cancer Two UHN start-ups join Johnson &
changed Brandon’s life Johnson Innovation

Concussion clinic begins treating
patients This short film, directed by award-winning Canadian filmmaker
Barry Avrich, pays tribute to UHN’s amazing Multi-Organ Transplant
Ontario Premier visits UHN to show- Program, which is based at Toronto General Hospital. (Video: Toronto
case partnership General & Western Hospital Foundation)

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