Your QEII Brain injury In 2011, Jennifer McKinnon was cycling to the gym to meet with her personal trainer: a driver turned left on the same route. When she woke, emergency...
Your QEII QEII gives hope for psychosis treatment Based in the QEII Health Sciences Centre’s Abbie J. Lane building, the Nova Scotia Early Psychosis Program (NSEPP) helps young people and their...
Your QEII A first-hand experience of reclaiming life after a kidney transplant I always believed in the mantra: “everything happens for a reason.” This belief was shattered when I was diagnosed with end-stage renal disease in...
Your QEII Ride for Cancer: Atlantic Canada’s largest cycling event raises $411,000 for cancer care Fresh air and exercise isn’t usually how Dr. Drew Bethune fights cancer. But the combination proved extremely effective at last fall’s...
Your QEII Finding solutions: Patient Relations team works to resolve patients’ concerns Trying to resolve a challenging issue with a utility company or a large retailer has left all of us feeling powerless at times. But the stakes are...
Your QEII A word from the QEII Foundation Caring for each other is part of the fabric of life here on the East Coast; it’s in our DNA. Atlantic Canadians take pride in being good neighbours...
Your QEII Driver Evaluation Program makes the tough calls for road safety The ability to drive has quite rightly been equated with freedom. For many Nova Scotians the rhythms of daily life — the commute to work, the...
Your QEII A lifeline for those living with obesity With more than one third of Nova Scotians classified as obese, the demand for surgery is on the rise. There is a considerable wait for the...
Your QEII Collaborative care for chronic disease Inflammatory Bowel Disease, or IBD, can be difficult for people living with the disease to talk about, in some cases because it invokes feelings of...