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May is National Physiotherapy Month. The VCH Library Team highlights journal articles describing lesser known physiotherapy practices within the healthcare environment.

Forget apples – lifting weights and doing cardio can also keep the doctors away, according a new study by researchers at VCH Research Institute and UBC.

You’ve seen the signs, you’ve heard the reminders and you know the importance of hand hygiene. Now it’s your chance to tell us what you think about the hand hygiene programs in your area. Are they working well? What needs to be improved?

Did you miss the forum? Here are some highlights of the presentations, along with links to the archived webcast.

The project engaged teams and partners in our hospitals and in the community, to follow the patient journey from emergency departments to acute medical and psychiatry units.

Challenging some of the system’s fundamental assumptions, and thousands of hours of extra work, is how Dr Réka Gustafson (pictured at right) , Val Munroe (at left) and Chris Buchner (middle) were able to successfully roll out the STOP HIV pilot and truly make measurable improvements in the lives of many people and on a population level.