In recognition of Canadian Patient Safety Week 2022, a Dotmocracy Voting Event took place on October 28 in Flavours’ Cafeteria. In total, 91 workers, students, and volunteers voted on their top priority for patient safety improvement projects.
‘Dotmocracy’ is an interactive group activity that uses dot-voting (multi-voting, sticker voting, etc.) to recognize group preferences among limited options. Feedback from this event will help support prioritization for the Risk Assessment Checklist and to guide future quality improvement projects.
Participants were each given a dot sticker
They placed a sticker next to the option presented that they like
Options with the most stickers “win”
The question asked to participants was, ‘What should be our Hospital’s top patient safety priority?’
Results
91 workers, students and volunteers participated and voted on their top priority:
Transitions of Care = 42 votes
Medication Safety = 29 votes
Fall Prevention = 20 votes
The results will support future quality improvement projects to improve patient safety.
In addition, Susan Hamilton, Indigenous Navigator (Renal) (pictured below) won a $25 giftcard to Goods and Co. Market in our Patient Safety Week draw. Congratulations Susan!
Susan Hamilton, Indigenous Navigator (Renal) won a $25 giftcard to Goods and Co. Market in our Patient Safety Week draw.
Shared on behalf of the Volunteer Association to the Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre
This is a friendly reminder that, if you have still not redeemed your Seasons Gift Certificate issued last December, you have until November 30, 2022 to do so. Thank you so much for supporting Seasons Gift Shop and the Volunteer Association to purchase life-saving medical equipment for patients in Northwestern Ontario.
Thank you to everyone who has submitted a nomination for the upcoming iCare Impact Awards! Nominations are open until December 31, 2022, but just a reminder that we are doing draws monthly to thank our nominators. Last month, Keli Cristofaro took home a Cheese Encounter gift certificate just for submitting a nomination! Submit a nomination now to be considered for the upcoming draws.
In anticipation of our upcoming Employee Recognition Week (ERW) 2023, we are shining a spotlight onsome of our local supporters. Today we are featuring our friends at The Cheese Encounter, who recognize our staff with a year-round 10% discount off of in-store cheese purchases, through our Affinity List. They are also generously donating a whopping $350 worth of gift certificates for our ERW prizes, which will be raffled off to staff during the week of February 28 to March 3, 2023.
Here’s what Matt Wilkins, owner of The Cheese Encounter, had to say about his ongoing support of Hospital employees:
“We choose to support the TBRHSC staff as a thank you for the hard work you all do for our community. Although it’s only a small display of gratitude, we feel that artisan cheese is one of the best treats of all (perhaps a bit of a biased opinion), and keeping our community healthy is something that definitely must be rewarded. Throughout our years of supporting the TBRHSC, many of the staff have in turn shown us an incredible amount of support by enjoying our artisan cheeses, and befriending us as regulars at The Cheese Encounter. We look forward to continuing to partner with the TBRHSC, no matter how cheesy our contribution may be. For those who know us already, “Hello!”, for those who don’t, we welcome you to come say hi the next time you’re in the Bay and Algoma neighborhood.”
Our friends at The Cheese Encounter can be found at 198 Algoma Street South.
Landen Letwin is working at TBRHSC as a rehab assistant while he waits to complete his registration exams as a registered physical therapist. Landen just competed for Team Canada at the World Water Ski Show Tournament in Florida.
THUNDER BAY — Thunder Bay is known for producing NHL-calibre hockey players, but not so much for being the home of world-class water skiers.
Landen Letwin is out to change that.
The 27-year-old competed for Team Canada at the World Water Ski Show Tournament which wound up Sunday in Winter Haven, Florida.
The Canadian team was on course to finish as high as second, but wound up being edged out of the medals by the narrowest of margins, finishing fourth.
In the two other events he participated in, Canada earned a medal.
The 2020 tournament was cancelled due to the pandemic.
“Countries from around the world take their best water ski show skiers. There’s 35 people on a team. You do one show on Saturday and one on Sunday, and they take your best score,” Letwin said in an interview Monday.
He said it’s fun to compete in front of huge crowds such as the ones that attended the show in Winter Haven.
“We skied an amazing show…Just to represent your country, it’s a really cool feeling and an amazing experience. And seeing the best skiers in the world compete against each other is really special.”
Letwin joined Team Canada in 2016, shortly after returning to Thunder Bay from Wisconsin where his family moved when he was two months old.
He began waterskiing at the age of five, and by eight years old was already skiing barefoot.
When he was 14, a local water ski team invited him to join them, but he was playing baseball and soccer at the time and thought he was too busy.
His changed his mind, though, after attending team practice, and wound up quitting the other sports instead.
Letwin said his barefoot skiing skills are what got him a spot on the national team in the first place.
“In the show I do barefooting, sky skiing which is like hydrofoil, and jumping — with flips over the jump. We do a barefoot pyramid at the beginning, and then I do backwards barefoot circles around the show course.”
After moving back to Thunder Bay at the age of 20, he was quickly accepted as a member of Team Canada, and subsequently turned professional.
That’s taken him to competitions around the globe.
Here at home, though, he’s helping local youth develop their expertise on water skis.
This summer Letwin operated water ski schools at Loon Lake and Shebandowan Lake, and he aims to start a water ski team as well.
At the same time, he’s embarking on a full-time career in the health care field.
The physiotherapy graduate is waiting to write his licensing exam, and currently works at Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre as a rehab assistant.
A reminder that access to the first floor staff lounge will be restricted from November 3rd onwards. Over the next few months the area will be closed due to construction required to support installation of the new PET-CT machine in the Diagnostic Imaging department. Lockers have been relocated into the corridors as a temporary solution until the work is completed and users can be allowed back into the space. Please use caution and move slowly through the corridor a there will be much more foot traffic.
If there are any questions or concerns please contact Kyle Swayzey, Karen Anderson or Kaitlyn Mauracher. We appreciate your patience and understanding.
The Ontario government passed Bill 88, which amended the Employment Standards Act, 2000 (ESA) to create a new obligation for employers with twenty-five (25) or more employees to prepare and implement a written policy with respect to the electronic monitoring of employees. The policy must include certain information including, but not limited to, whether the employer electronically monitors employees and, if so, a description of how and in what circumstances the employer may monitor employees, and the purposes for which information obtained through electronic monitoring may be used by the employer.
