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At the crossroads of children’s healthcare, system improvement, and leadership, this solutions-focused, interview-style podcast brings you engaging stories, reflections, and system improvement ideas from leaders in Canadian children’s healthcare.Enjoyed the episode? Leave us a rating or review, share with your colleagues, and be sure to subscribe!

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  1. EPISODE 1

    Beyond Bandaids: Collective Action to Right-Size Children's Healthcare Systems

    Send us a text Season 5, Episode 1 | Episode released on May 6, 2024 View on YouTube Description: Children’s Healthcare Canada, together with our members and strategic partners, is on a mission to right-size children’s healthcare systems, which are “accessible, equitable, evidence-informed, connected healthcare services” purpose-built for kids. Two years ago, Children’s Healthcare Canada embarked on this journey, engaging children’s healthcare leaders, clinicians, and researchers; family and youth partners; advocates and policymakers; researchers and data analysts; and educators to co-create recommendations to achieve “right-sized” healthcare systems for kids. In this podcast episode, Children’s Healthcare Canada Board Chair, Julia Hanigsberg, describes this ideal future state, the work undertaken to date, and the next steps. She’ll invite you to join forces to Right-Size together. Episode Guest: Julia Hanigsberg joined Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital as its President and CEO in 2015. She has spent her career in government, post-secondary education and healthcare as a champion for transformation, innovation and excellence.  Prior to joining Holland Bloorview Julia spent 9 years at Toronto Metropolitan University prior to which she worked in the Ontario government including roles as Counsel to the Deputy Attorney General, Counsel and Special Advisor to two Secretaries of Cabinet and Chief of Staff to the Attorney General of Ontario.  Julia has degrees from McGill University and the Columbia Law School. She is a four-time Women’s Executive Network Most Powerful Women Top 100 honouree and was inducted into the Women’s Executive Network Most Powerful Women Hall of Fame.  Julia has served on numerous boards, has completed her ICD.D. and currently Chairs the Boards of Directors of Children’s Healthcare Canada and Solutions for Kids in Pain. She is a Vice Chair of the Ontario Hospital Association and sits on the boards of OECM, the Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital Foundation and the Kids Health Alliance. In addition, she serves on the CEO Committee of the Toronto Academic Health Sciences Network and she was appointed by the Ontario Ministry of Health to the Governing Council of the Provincial Council for Maternal and Child Health.

    33 min

  2. EPISODE 3

    Right-Sizing Health Systems: The systems-focused Children’s Hospital

    Send us a text Through visionary leadership, health systems focus, population-based approaches, trusting relationships, and creative partnerships, systems-focused Children’s Hospitals create integrated delivery networks purposefully designed to meet the unique needs of children and families. This serves to improve healthcare access, system navigation, and efficiency, and children’s experiences of care and outcomes.  In this episode of SPARK: Conversations, join host Dr. Katharine Smart as she engages in a compelling dialogue with Alex Munter, CEO of CHEO. Alex shares insights from his extensive experience, highlighting innovative strategies and collaborative initiatives aimed at enhancing healthcare access and quality for children across Canada. This episode offers listeners a deep dive into transformative healthcare leadership, inspiring action towards a more equitable and sustainable future for pediatric care.

    31 min

  3. EPISODE 4

    The Pediatric Workforce: Right-sizing the HHR system for kids

    Send us a text Changing healthcare needs and increasing care complexity among children and youth together with HHR challenges have raised concerns about the current and future availability of pediatric subspecialty care and research and the potential ramifications for child health and well-being. In this episode of SPARK: Conversations, join host Dr. Katharine Smart as she engages in a compelling dialogue with Dr. Meredith Irwin and Dr. Steven Miller surrounding the HHR crisis, especially within pediatrics. How can we work together to ensure the future of pediatric care can be sustainable and achievable? This episode offers listeners insights into the HHR crisis and how partnerships can offer an inspiring future in pediatric care.   Guests: Dr. Meredith Irwin Meredith Irwin, MD is the Chief of Paediatrics at The Hospital for Sick Children, and Professor and Chair of the Department of Paediatrics at the Temerty Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto. She is the first woman to hold these two roles, which she assumed in April 2020. Dr. Irwin received her MD from Harvard Medical School and completed her Paediatrics and Oncology training at Boston Children’s Hospital and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. She joined The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) as a Staff Physician (Hematology-Oncology) and Clinician-Scientist in 2002. From 2008-2020 she was the Associate Chair of Paediatrics (Research) and held the position of Solid Tumour Section Head from 2011-2020. Dr. Irwin’s research focuses on identifying novel genes, treatments, and biomarkers to optimize risk classification and precision medicine approaches for neuroblastoma. She has received funding from the NIH, Canadian Cancer Society Research Institute and CIHR. Dr. Irwin is the Chair of the Children’s Oncology Group (COG) Neuroblastoma Committee. As Chief of Paediatrics, she is committed to integrating precision child health approaches to research and clinical care and training the next generation of academic pediatricians. She is also the Vice President of the Pediatric Chairs of Canada (PCC) and co-leads the PCC workforce theme team, which is focused on advancing solutions to address the current and future general and subspecialty pediatric workforce. Dr. Steven Miller Dr. Steven P. Miller is Head and Professor of the UBC Department of Pediatrics and the Chief of Pediatric Medicine at BC’s Children Hospital. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, holds the Hudson Family Hospital Chair in Pediatric Medicine and James & Annabel McCreary Chair in Pediatrics, and was previously a Canada Research Chair in Neonatal Neuroscience. Leading a multidisciplinary team, Dr. Miller’s research program focuses on better understanding of how intensive care impacts brain development and injury in the newborn with a focus on those born preterm or with congenital heart disease. The goal of his team’s work is to promote strategies to prevent brain injury and to promote recovery with the ultimate goal of improving the lifelong health of children and their families. He is passionate about supporting the career trajectories of child-health researchers and served as President of the Society for Pediatric Research.

    52 min

  4. EPISODE 5

    SPARK Conversations - S5E5 - Dr. Christine Chambers

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    30 min

  5. EPISODE 6

    Care Without Borders: Strategies for Delivering Quality Healthcare to Kids in Rural and Remote Communities

    Send us a text Children's Healthcare Canada, its members, and strategic partners have highlighted the need to and catalyzed collective action to right-size health systems for children. Recommendations in the Beyond Bandaids report include a call for the expansion of localized capacity and innovative models for children's healthcare in rural, remote, and Northern communities. Recognizing that it is not feasible to have comprehensive sub-specialized children's healthcare in every community, this podcast will discuss creative strategies/models to deliver better care for kids living far away from urban centres (including, virtual care, rapid transport, and service partnerships).

    37 min

  6. EPISODE 7

    Collective action and Advocacy: Coalitions and right-sizing children's healthcare

    Send us a text In this episode of SPARK: Conversations, we explore the collaborative efforts shaping the future of child and youth mental health care in Ontario. The Children’s Health Coalition, a powerful partnership between Children’s Mental Health Ontario, Ontario’s 5 children’s hospitals, and other key organizations, is working to ensure kids and families get the care they need—when and where they need it most.  Join us as we dive into how this groundbreaking coalition is transforming the mental health system, overcoming challenges, and paving the way for a more integrated and effective approach to care. We’ll discuss the Coalition’s achievements, the barriers they’ve tackled, and the lessons learned in creating a system that works for children and youth across Ontario.

    36 min

  7. EPISODE 8

    Right-sizing healthcare systems for kids: Primary care access

    Send us a text In this episode of SPARK: Conversations, we explore the role of primary care teams or healthcare professionals in right-sizing children’s healthcare systems. Dr. Tara Kiran discusses the revolutionary OurCare study, its findings, and implications for addressing the current primary care crisis and ensure that every child, youth, and family is assigned and has timely access to a primary care team or provider. Through this webinar we will also explore how other countries have ensured access to primary care for citizens; what this means for children, youth and their families and the healthcare systems that serve them; and how this could be reflected in Canada.

    42 min

  8. EPISODE 9

    Homecare: A key element of right-sized health systems

    Send us a text In this episode of SPARK: Conversations, we explore the role of home healthcare. Maureen Charlebois, Chief of Nursing & Clinical Officer at Bayshore HealthCare, discussing the importance of home healthcare within the Canadian healthcare system to ensure that every child, youth, and family can feel supported both inside and outside hospitals.

    26 min
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At the crossroads of children’s healthcare, system improvement, and leadership, this solutions-focused, interview-style podcast brings you engaging stories, reflections, and system improvement ideas from leaders in Canadian children’s healthcare.Enjoyed the episode? Leave us a rating or review, share with your colleagues, and be sure to subscribe!

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