Thanks to a redesign of the VGH Clinical Teaching Unit (CTU), physicians are spending less time on the run, treating patients in multiple locations, and more time on patient care. Now, most CTU teams have a defined base, an assigned unit that medical students, interns, Residents and Attending Physicians can call home.

PSMs Gerry Desilets and Tena Ganovicheff and patient care coordinator Haydee Mones discuss the redesign and how it’s making a positive difference for patients, hospital staff and physicians in this True North Now podcast – the first in a series of VCH audio news magazines. Total listening time for this segment is only 2 minutes and 39 seconds.

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2 min. 39 sec.

The complete podcast also includes:

• an interview with Mary Ackenhusen on the meaning of “providing the best care”;
• a segment on the iCough initiative in Richmond; and
• a look at the North Shore’s Health Connections Clinic.

Listen to the rest of True North Now.

To read an earlier story about the CTU redesign at VGH, click here: No more life on the run.