News & Updates
Sepsis and septic shock
The Mayo Clinic and the Cleveland Clinic define sepsis as a serious condition which happens when your immune system has a dangerous...
Improving life with a spinal cord Injury
September is Spinal Cord Injury Month, and we are recognizing all the work that the Spinal Cord Injury of Ontario (SCIO) does for...
The Inside Scoop at MOF
The MOF Federated Health campaign was run by two very capable chairs, Pauline Padmore and Gregory Collins. Both work in the...
A Home for All: the critical need for accessible housing
(From SCIO’s site at https://sciontario.org/hear-from-our-community/) Spinal Cord Injury Ontario (SCIO), together with other...
Final Thoughts on the 2024 Federated Health Campaign
As I wrote at the beginning of the campaign, the Federated Health Charities campaign has always been “our” charity organization, run...
A Winning Formula for OLG
When Federated Health looks at its history, we see some consistent groups who have been a part of the campaign nearly from its...
Taking Their Campaign to the Next Level – Workplace Safety and Insurance Appeals Tribunal (WSIAT)
The Workplace Safety and Insurance Appeals Tribunal (WSIAT) is a provincial agency that is associated with, but independent from, the...
Facts about Organ Donation
According to Canadian Blood Services, in Canada, only 1–2% of people consent to organ donation and pass on, can be...
How Do You Breathe?
Do you understand how your lungs work? With so many respiratory diseases around these days (COVID, flu, cough due to a cold,...
What is Chronic Pain?
Chronic pain is pain that lasts for over 3 months and the pain is either there all the time, or it comes and goes. The World Health...
The Trouble with Sleep
Have you ever lain awake wondering why you cannot sleep? Almost everyone will experience insomnia over a lifetime, but for some...
Why We Need to Hydrate
Everyday, we need to drink liquids. Why? Because the average human body is more than 60% water. Liquids make up: 83% of your lungs...
Financial and Event Highlights for Campaign 2024
To date we have written about ministries and what they have done during this campaign to raise funds. As well, we have talked about...
How Cancer can Affect us All
(A personal story from a young cancer sufferer) Joseph Neale’s voice is clear and soulful. So, it’s hard to believe that he has had...
Men and Mental Health
Both men and women can experience mental health problems throughout their lifetimes. But men’s mental health is an often...
Osteoporosis and How to Take Care of your Bones
Osteoporosis Canada has some handy tips on how to look after your bone health. While anyone can get osteoporosis, it is more common...
Campaign Superstars
In last week’s blog, we spoke about all the fantastic events that happened in ministries, participating provincial agencies and the...
More Appreciation Outreach from our Charities
Last week, we started presenting some of the thanks we had received from the various charities. This week, we are continuing this so...
Some Highlights from This Year’s Campaign
On June 28th we wrapped this years Federated Health campaign, and it was another great success! Not only did we do a fantastic...
A Thank You from our Charities
On June 28 the Federated Health Charities (FHC) Campaign wrapped up and we marked this occasion with a wrap celebration that was...
Appreciation messages from some of our charities
Osteoporosis Canada is grateful for Federated Health Charities and for all the volunteers who helped make this year’s campaign...
Ways You Can Keep on Giving and Stay in Touch
Donations Remember, OPS employees and OPP members can donate to Federated Health Charities via WIN until July 7, 2024....
Thoughts and Lessons from the Second Lunch and Learn
Jodi’s Story Jodi Walsh is an ODSP caseworker in the Social Assistance Program at MCCSS. As one of the main caregivers for her...
Congratulations to the 2024 Federated Health Charities’ Lottery Winners
These are the lottery winners of the 2024 Federated Health Charities lottery: $15,000 – Annette Hollinger, MCCSS, Ticket #2616 $5,000...
Spotlight on Sickle Cell Disease
What is Sickle Cell Disease? Sickle cell disease is one of a group of inherited blood disorders. It affects the shape of red blood...
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Toronto, ON
M7A 0B8
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