Sent on behalf of Dr. Rhonda Crocker Ellacott, President & CEO, TBRHSC and CEO, TBRHRI
It is with mixed emotions I announce that Crystal Pirie will be leaving Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre (TBRHSC) as our Senior Director, Indigenous Collaboration. Her final day will be October 1st, 2021.
Crystal has served at TBRHSC since August 27th, 2018, where she has meaningfully engaged with Indigenous partners and communities, and advised our Hospital’s Senior Leadership Council and Board of Directors on strategies to enhance Indigenous health. She focused on ensuring our Hospital’s Indigenous health priorities were authentic to the needs of the region’s Indigenous communities and collaborated internally and externally to ensure our Hospital’s policies, procedures and processes were more culturally relevant, sensitive, and holistic.
Crystal has led a number of crucial projects in her role, such as the recruitment of Indigenous Patient Navigators and Indigenous Care Coordinators, the implementation of Indigenous Self-Identification for patients and staff, and anti-Indigenous racism proposals, to name a few.
We thank Crystal for all the work she has done at TBRHSC that has led to significant improvements and outcomes for Indigenous patients and their families in our Hospital, the community, and the region.
Crystal will be moving on to a role as the Health Services Manager at Anishnawbe Mushkiki. Please join me in wishing Crystal all the best in her future endeavors.
We are currently in the process of recruitment to fill this role.