Waste Reduction Week in Canada takes place from October 17-23, 2022. It is an opportunity to celebrate our environmental efforts and achievements to date, and encourage new ideas and solutions to reduce our waste. Reducing the amount of waste you create is an easy way that you can help make a difference.

TBRHSC’s Green Team is committed to reducing our environmental footprint and supporting these efforts through our extensive recycling programs onsite which includes:

• All Plastics #1 – #7
• Cardboard & Paper
• Cans & Scrap Metal
• Batteries
• Electronic Waste

We have started to setup ‘Green Suites’ within select departments, for those areas looking to champion their department’s recycling initiatives. These ‘Green Suites’ are a centralized area for managing and sorting recycle materials to minimize the amount of waste going to landfill.

We are also working on introducing two new recycling programs onsite:

1. PPE Recycling:
   1. Includes recycling of uncontaminated masks/gloves/gowns/booties/etc
   1. The uncontaminated PPE is shipped to ‘LifeCycle Revive’, in Southern Ontario
   1. The contents are sterilized and processed into pellets, which are then in turn used to create recycling bins, bed pans, etc.
2. Keurig K-Cup Recycling:
   1. Intended for areas with kitchenettes, where Keurig coffee brewing equipment is in use
   1. The pods are collected then sent to EMTERRA for processing.
   1. The pod components are separated – grounds become compost & the plastic is recycled.

If you are interested in becoming a recycling champion within your own department to help support and expand our onsite initiatives, we encourage you to please reach out to housekeeping@tbh.net

We also encourage you to visit the Green Team page on the intranet, as well as the Ecosuperior website to learn about more ways you can get involved and support the local sustainability efforts. 

October 19 2022 is the seventh World Bioethics Day. This year’s theme is “Social Responsibility and Health”. What a wonderful reminder that it is through caring and collaboration that we will create positive changes in our world.

In anticipation of Lakehead University Centre for Health Care Ethics 25th anniversary next year, the Centre invites your participation in a virtual art gallery event. Anyone can join – individuals (e.g., learners, professionals, members of the public), teams, units/departments, and/or health care organizations – to contribute to broadening our collective understanding of how health care ETHICS is the heART of quality
care.

Your thoughtful reflections on health care ethics and quality care from diverse perspectives using ART as a universal medium to share your experiences are welcome. E-contributions will be accepted in the form of poetry, short stories, pictures, digital stories/short videos, music, photos, pictures of sculptures/paintings, digital collages, cultural expressions, etc. An email submission of your original art to the Centre signifies permission for us to elect to post/share your work online for no more than 6 months, but you (the creator) retain all copyrights.

Please send your submissions via email chce@lakeheadu.ca between October 19, 2022 and February 14, 2023.

Please see the poster and flyer below for further details or contact chce@lakeheadu.ca.

On Thursday, October 27, 2022 from 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. ET, join Healthcare Excellence Canada (HEC) and Health Standards Organization (HSO) for the webinar Safety Conversations Start with a Safe Workplace and Workforce.

This interactive webinar will convene a panel of senior leaders to share their experience on the design and implementation of the new HSO Workforce Survey on Well-Being, Quality and Safety being introduced to Accreditation Canada’s Qmentum clients. Participants will hear about the survey methodology, validation process, and learnings from early adopter health care organizations. The HSO Workforce Survey on Well-Being, Quality and Safety reinforces the value of asking the right questions about safety, listening, and then acting on the results. This webinar is for health care providers, administrators, researchers, patients, family members and policymakers. Hosted in partnership with Healthcare Excellence Canada to mark Canadian Patient Safety Week, October 24-28, 2022.

To register, please use this link.

The Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Foundation has 50 general admission tickets for this Saturday’s Thunderwolves hockey game (October 21) that are available FREE to Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre staff (two apiece).

They are available on a first come first serve basis at the Donation Centre in the lobby.

The Human Sciences Division at NOSM University is hosting a CEPD accredited lecture on Tuesday, October 18 from 12:00 p.m. to 1 p.m. EST.

Dr. Cindy Peltier will be presenting her lecture on “Indigenous Healing, Wiidooktaadyang, and Ways to Wellness.” Please see poster below for more details.