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Durham Region – Lakeridge Health is excited to announce Durham Region’s first baby of 2024 – a baby boy born at the Oshawa Hospital!
Baby Kaiden Chen was born at 5:22 a.m. on January 1, 2024, weighing five pounds, 11 ounces. Both little Kaiden and his mom, Effie Huang, are doing well. This is the first baby for Effie and proud father, Jersey Chen, who are from Whitby.
“It still feels unreal,” said Jersey when asked about the arrival of...
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Durham Region – Lakeridge Health has been recognized with three awards from Ontario Health (Trillium Gift of Life Network (TGLN)) – Ontario’s organ and tissue donation agency – as part of their 2022/2023 Hospital Achievement Awards.
This past year, Lakeridge Health supported five organ donors, which led to 22 organ transplants, saving 18 lives. Additionally, there were 94 tissue donors, enhancing the lives of many others.
In recognition of this...
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AJAX, ON – Lakeridge Gardens – Lakeridge Health’s long-term care home – has opened its highly anticipated, 16-bed Behavioural Support Transition Unit (BSTU) to provide increased access to care and comprehensive support for people living with dementia, mental health, and other neurological illnesses.
“We are so proud to offer this service to our Durham Region communities,” said Lisa McVety, Administrator, Lakeridge Gardens. “This...
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DURHAM REGION –Lakeridge Health welcomed the inaugural class of 20 medical school students for their first day of orientation as part of the new, first-of-its kind in Canada Queen’s-Lakeridge Health MD Family Medicine Program.
“We’re very excited to welcome the inaugural cohort of medical school students to this novel program based at Lakeridge Health,” said Dr. Nadia Ismiil, Deputy Chief of Staff, Chief, Academic Affairs and Research, and Interim...
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DURHAM REGION – Lakeridge Health is proud to introduce I Belong – the organization’s Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Accessibility, and Anti-Racism (IDEAA) Multi-Year Action Plan.
In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic, police violence, the “Me too” movement, anti-Asian hate, and Indigenous activism left those in health care thinking more deeply about how structural racism and all forms of discrimination intersects with health and well-being and...
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