On Tuesday RNAO released its major report ECCO 3.0 – Enhancing Community Care for Ontario. It provides the path forward through a comprehensive assessment of the current health system and its fractured response to COVID-19. 

During a time when nurses are working tirelessly and selflessly through the COVID-19 pandemic, the Registered Nurses’ Association of Ontario (RNAO) will honour the impact they are having every day on the lives of Ontarians and the health system, through a series of virtual events planned during National Nursing Week (May 11-17).

The official counting of deaths is just a fraction of the real toll of COVID-19 in about every country affected by the pandemic. The New York Times, doing important work, found at that least 60,000 more people have died during the coronavirus pandemic than the official Covid-19 death counts report, a review of mortality data in 15 countries shows — providing a clearer, if still incomplete, picture of the toll of the crisis.

What does it mean to be person-and-family-centred during a pandemic? That is the question we asked some of the Ontario Health Teams that participate in RNAO’s Best Practice Spotlight program (BPSO OHTs).