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With over 25 friends and colleagues in attendance, Dr. Peter Kuhnert was greeted by warm smiles and a round of applause as he accepted the Waterloo Regional Health Network Award of Excellence for his contributions to our mental health and addictions program.

“A true example of a nurse who goes beyond her duties": Vicky McGuire, complex continuing care nurse, wins WRHN award of excellence 

For the first time ever, Waterloo Regional Health Network (WRHN) and St. Mary’s General Hospital (SMGH) co-hosted an annual community update last Thursday, November 21 in front of a sold out crowd at the Centre for International Governance and Innovation in Waterloo.

In 2018/19 WRHN helped save the lives of 25 people and 40 tissue donors enhanced the lives of many people through transplantation of corneas, skin, bone and heart valves.

Thanks to We Fund Care and its generous supporters, renovations to the family lounge in Waterloo Regional Health Network’s children’s program are complete and the space is ready for families to use.

Waterloo Regional Health Network will welcome health professionals to its sixth annual networking and education event in early November

St. Mary’s General Hospital and Waterloo Regional Health Network use a shared fax system. On three days, July 30, 2019, August 27, 2019 and September 5, 2019, the fax system malfunctioned resulting in dictated patient reports, containing personal health information, being sent to a physician who was not the patient’s physicia

Diana Brodrecht, team lead of MRI, has won WRHN’s latest award of excellence for her exceptional leadership qualities demonstrated on a daily basis to both colleagues and patients.

WRHN's inpatient cancer team has won our latest award of excellence with the implementation of a malnutrition screening tool for patients, demonstrating WRHN’s commitment to a healthy community one patient at a time.