We laughed, we cheered and we applauded our record-breaking accreditation achievement at the December Vancouver Leaders’ Forum (VLF). And now you can, too! Webcast of the event is available for your viewing.

At the CFO Staff Forum on December 5, the group celebrated their teams’ accomplishments and everyone – and we do mean everyone – donned moustaches in support of the “CFO Movember Contest”.

More than 40 representatives from 15 community and agency representatives are expected to attend each of two Downtown Eastside roundtable sessions today. Read on to find out why and our direction forward.

Maureen Duggan and Sonia Martins proposed this pilot clinic to UBC and VGH because they recognized that a program didn’t exist for the frail elderly to regain functionality after hospital stays.

Find out why one Accreditation Canada surveyor said: “This was a magnificent survey, one of the best surveys we’ve seen in the country for an integrated health system.” Congratulations, everyone, on our 2012 Accreditation results!

Gloria Macarenko, co-host CBC News Vancouver, will host this year’s Angel Dedication Event at our Winter Wonderland in the VGH (JPP) Diamond Family Courtyard. Festivities will include live performances by the Eric Hamber Secondary School Jazz Choir and Little Flower Academy Chamber Choir, and an excerpt from the holiday classic, The Nutcracker, performed by Goh Ballet.

The Canadian Wheelchair Sports Association has honoured the G.F. Strong Rehabilitation Centre and its staff with the Rick Hansen Award. This award recognizes inspirational contributions to the growth and development of wheelchair sports in Canada – and the difference they make for clients like Tristan Smyth.

I’d like to thank our flu clinic staff for all their efforts over the past weeks and, most of all, for fulfilling their tasks with such care and professionalism.

The books Gerald Dyer recommended to a patient may never make Oprah’s book list, but they and this RN certainly made an impression.