Health inspection finds problems at Baycrest
TORONTO — A series of Ontario Ministry of Health inspection reports conducted at the Apotex Centre, Jewish Home for the Aged, more commonly known as Baycrest, found instances of physical abuse of residents, wheelchairs and sling lifts tainted with feces, unlocked medication carts and various other violations of health standards.
Seniors anxious for Wagman Centre pool to re-open
TORONTO — For a 90-year-old retiree, Murray Hoffman is pretty active, but not as active as he’d like to be.
Hoffman, like hundreds of other seniors, enjoys the water exercise programs offered in the salt-water pool at the Joseph E. and Minnie Wagman Centre and Terraces of Baycrest Retirement Residence.
The trouble is, the pool has been out of commission since December and is not slated to re-open until April. And every year, the pool shuts down a couple of times a year for maintenance that usually last three or four weeks at a time.
Probing the Jewish approach to physician-assisted death
In a December CJN cover story, Barbara Silverstein wrote about the intersection of Jewish law and physician-assisted death (PAD). At the time, Quebec had already adopted a law legalizing PAD, and the Supreme Court of Canada was preparing to issue its own ruling on the matter. Now that the court has struck down the ban on PAD in a unanimous decision, it seems appropriate to revisit Silverstein’s findings.
FEATURE: Toronto’s Mount Sinai had humble beginnings as dispensary
When Dr. Daniel Drucker of Toronto’s Mount Sinai Hospital receives the $150,000 (US) Manpei-Suzuki prize for groundbreaking diabetes research in February, he will be only the latest in a long parade of medical researchers at the world-famous institution to be recognized for their excellence.
A researcher engaged in a different sort of quest – probing the origins of the Mount Sinai Hospital – is struck by Mount Sinai’s humble beginnings more than a century ago.
