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Crisis Response Centre: An Ongoing Crisis for Clinicians
Read Article: Crisis Response Centre: An Ongoing Crisis for CliniciansPosted August 29, 2025 It has been 15 months since the Winnipeg Free Press published an article exposing the serious challenges facing mental health clinicians, social workers, nurses, and counsellors working at the Crisis Response Centre (CRC), a vital 24/7 facility that supports Manitobans in need of urgent mental health care. Fifteen months later, and…
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MAHCP statement about CancerCare Manitoba’s safety & security protocols
Read Article: MAHCP statement about CancerCare Manitoba’s safety & security protocolsPosted August 20, 2025 It has been less than two weeks since concerns about safety and security at the Health Sciences Centre campus reached a boiling point following escalating violence. Yet, this week, CancerCare Manitoba was in the news for continuing to direct staff to use one of five less secure building doors other than…
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MAHCP message to our members working at HSC in response to security concerns
Read Article: MAHCP message to our members working at HSC in response to security concernsPosted August 8, 2025 To our valued members working at HSC: MAHCP is keenly aware of recent threats to the physical safety of staff and patients at Health Sciences Centre, including serious incidents that have occurred in the past day. We have long been pushing the employer for urgent action. They aren’t doing enough to…
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Meet Kristine Pederson: One-half of all Manitoba’s Neuromonitorists
Read Article: Meet Kristine Pederson: One-half of all Manitoba’s NeuromonitoristsIf you don’t work in the health-care system, and maybe even if you do, but you don’t work in the OR, IOM Technologist is likely one of those jobs you don’t know exists. As an Intra-Operative Neurosurgical Monitoring Technologist, or neuromonitorist for short, Kristine Pederson ensures a patient’s nervous system remains functional during complex and…
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Meet Colleen: Radiation Therapist (and so much more!)
Read Article: Meet Colleen: Radiation Therapist (and so much more!)The old adage, ‘If you want something done, ask a busy person,’ definitely applies to Colleen P., Radiation Therapist with CancerCare Manitoba. From her specialized work as an Radiation Therapist Accessory Fabrication Specialist to owning a part-time floral business specializing in designs for weddings and funerals (a skill she learned from her grandmother), Colleen’s life…
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Meet Cecilia: Q&A with HSC’s Music Therapy Program founder
Read Article: Meet Cecilia: Q&A with HSC’s Music Therapy Program founderHSC Children’s Hospital Certified Music Therapist and founding Music Therapist at Children’s, Cecilia B. talks with us about her love for music and the incredible science behind music therapy. “My family knows that if I won the lottery tomorrow, I would still be working in some capacity! I love my job but I also enjoy spending…
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Meet Lacey, Registered Music Therapist: She doesn’t sing ALL day—oh wait, yes she does!
Read Article: Meet Lacey, Registered Music Therapist: She doesn’t sing ALL day—oh wait, yes she does!“Every day in the hospital I am reminded of the healing power of music and the way it is able to break down barriers with kids and families. I love that singing the theme song to a child’s favourite TV show can create an instant bond; that entering into a child’s imaginary play with their…
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Meet Maddy: Supporting Clients in HSC’s Central Dialysis Unit
Read Article: Meet Maddy: Supporting Clients in HSC’s Central Dialysis UnitMadeleine (Maddy) G. started out as a marketing and communications associate with an agricultural association after completing a degree in International Development Studies in 2015. Fast-forward to 2024, and Maddy is now a social worker in the Central Dialysis Unit at HSC. “I did a lot of soul searching, and in 2019, I decided to…
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HSC, Grace, Children’s Hospital MRI Wait Times Reach 30+ Weeks
Read Article: HSC, Grace, Children’s Hospital MRI Wait Times Reach 30+ WeeksToday, CAMRT-MB, the home for provincial association services for MRTs in Manitoba, issued a news release sounding the alarm on increasing MRI wait times in Manitoba. Read the media release.
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Meet Lisa: Manitoba’s one-of-a-kind Registered Dietitian
Read Article: Meet Lisa: Manitoba’s one-of-a-kind Registered DietitianIn an age of proliferating online wellness influencers, food prep tip and life coaches, Registered Dietitians are in a whole other category. Registered Dietitian Lisa W. says people still confuse her unique professional role with that of a menu planner. As Manitoba’s only Registered Dietitian specialized in pediatric nephrology (working with children affected by kidney…
