Come join us for a special film screening of ‘The Secret Path’.

This in-person event is a great opportunity to watch this powerful film. The Secret Path sheds light on one boy’s tragic story, the story of one of thousands of residential school survivors. Haunting visuals and moving song lyrics capture 12-year-old Chanie Wenjack’s feelings of despair and hope as he escapes from Cecilia Jeffrey Indian Residential School.

Date: Monday, September 30
Time: 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Location: ICP Main Meeting Room #2178 (Located behind Robin’s Donuts).

Pizza lunch to be provided.

To register click here.

Lakehead University’s Office of Indigenous Initiatives is offering public events this month in recognition of the National Day of Truth and Reconciliation. Below are two virtual talks on Truth and Reconciliation offered this week; for the full listing, please visit their website.

New Endoscopic Treatment Modalities for Upper GI Bleeding and the Management of Anticoagulants and Antiplatelets During Acute Gastrointestinal Bleeding

Presented by: Dr. Petros Zezos & Dr. Matthew Saunders

Objectives: Participants will be able to: 

1. Describe the acute management of Upper GI Bleeding and the available endoscopic treatment modalities,
2. Understand principles of antiplatelet and anticoagulant management in the setting of Upper GI Bleeding,
3. Appreciate the epidemiology, management, and outcomes of Upper GI Bleeding in Thunder Bay

When: Tuesday October 1, 2024 from 4:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.

Meeting link: https://thunderbayhospitals.webex.com/thunderbayhospitals/j.php?MTID=m9883ee879aa48fb82203c40af60d48eb

Meeting number: 2338 242 8050

Password: Meeting

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“The Department of Internal Medicine Monthly Rounds is a self-approved group learning activity (Section 1) as defined by the Maintenance of Certification Program of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada.”

Shared on behalf of Ryan Sears, Director, Capital & Facility Services

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Please be advised the Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre (at the 980 Oliver Road location only) will execute a planned impairment of its entire Overhead Paging System and Fire System on Thursday, September 26, 2024 for approximately four (4) hours – starting at 11:00 PM to facilitate project related work for the Renal Pod E renovation.

Our Facilities and Security teams will be enacting and overseeing our Fire System Impairment and Fire Watch procedures, as included in the Fire Plan for our site.

During this impairment, no Hot Work will be authorized. Further, any high risk work that could result in an elevated risk of fire, heat, or smoke should not be planned – please review this within your department and plan to discontinue high-risk activities (i.e. construction, repairs, hot showers, etc). Should you observe activities that may be of concern during the impairment, contact your Supervisor or Manager to discuss.

While the Hospital’s Overhead Paging System is out of service, alternate measures will be applied to notify the organization of Emergency Codes and Alerts. Staff will continue to activate all Codes using extension 55. Please see the attached policy for guidance.

Key things to remember during an outage:

1. Regularly monitor email for emergency code and alert notices issued by Switchboard.
2. Respond to emergency codes and alerts through alternate communication measures, e.g., paging, radios, emails, runners, etc., as appropriate – and activate response as required.
3. Be vigilant in reviewing department activities during the period of fire system impairment.
4. Clinical leads are encouraged to collaborate with their teams to consider alternatives to paging patients back to units, such as collecting Patients’ mobile phone numbers.

Further, in event of fire during this impairment, please execute all steps as outlined in Code Red Policy (EMER-30) and your area sub plan. Should you discover a fire – “REACT”:

R – Remove persons in immediate danger

E – Ensure doors are closed to confine fire or smoke

A – Activate the fire alarm by pulling the nearest pull station

C- Call Switchboard at Ext 55 to report the location of the fire

T- Try to extinguish the fire if trained to do so or continue to evacuate

The contractor for the fire system work is Troy Life & Fire Safety. The Building System Operator is onsite and reachable at cell number 629-7005. Further support will be provided by Security (684-6509) and the on call Facility Manager (cell number 629-3119) as required.

If you have any questions or concerns regarding the above, please contact Ryan Sears.

Next week there will be a marketplace with Indigenous vendors from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., on Monday, September 23 and Tuesday September 24, on the main floor. Local vendors will be selling handmade goods and products for staff, learners and volunteers.

To commemorate the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation (September 30), the Indigenous Collaboration, Equity & Inclusion team will host cultural events throughout September to honour Residential School survivors and their families in recognizing the strength and resilience of Indigenous Peoples and communities. 

Encounters in Bioethics 2024-2025 begins on September 26, 2024, 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. (ET) with the free webinar: Bioethics 101: Trust and Ethics in Health Care Delivery (poster attached).

Presenter: Ryan Tonkens, PhD, Bioethicist, Lakehead University Centre for Health Care Ethics; Associate Professor, NOSMU; Adjunct, Department of Philosophy, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Ontario.  

Connect via Zoom: https://lakeheadu.zoom.us/j/91213514438
Certificate of Attendance available upon request to chce@lakeheadu.ca

Also… Save the Dates for these Thursday sessions, 12-1 pm (ET) on Zoom:

• October 24, 2024
• November 28, 2024

Come join us as we highlight and celebrate innovation. This event will bring like-minded, curious, and creative people together, in order to encourage collaboration and help put their ideas in motion.

Nominated staff will present and share their innovations with their fellow colleagues. The goal of the event is to feature outstanding innovation occurring throughout the organization and promote a culture of innovative thinking. Come for coffee and leave with an understanding of the cool initiatives going on at work around you.

Featured projects will be shared from the following areas:

• Biomed
• Patient and Family Centred Care
• Pharmacy
• Critical Care
• And more!

Today, at a public ceremony in Victoria, British Columbia, on the traditional territory of the lək̓ʷəŋiʔnəŋ (Lekwungen), the Canadian Medical Association will apologize for their role, and the role of the medical profession, in past and ongoing harms to First Nations, Inuit and Métis Peoples in the health system.

The livestream will start at 4 p.m. For more information click here.

To view the livestream of the apology, click here.

Calendar Sharing: Share your calendar with colleagues to coordinate schedules. You can set different levels of permissions (e.g. view-only, edit) for specific people. See Knowledge Article “How to Share a Calendar in Outlook” (KA 14214)

Search Filters: Use advanced search filters to find specific emails quickly. For
instance, you can search by sender, subject, date, or attachment type.
Click the search bar and explore the options.

Set up Rules: Automate email management by creating rules to move, flag, or categorize emails based on criteria. See Knowledge Article “How do I Set up Rules in Outlook?” (KA 14134)

Drop-In WebEx Training Sessions

September 13, 20, 25

Join this WebEx meeting anytime you are free between 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.

Contact Help.Desk@tbh.net if you have any questions.

Housekeeping Appreciation Week (September 8 – 14) is an opportunity to recognize the value and hard work provided by all of the dedicated members of our Hospital’s Housekeeping team. We count on these hardworking heros of the front line to keep our facility clean and safe for our patients and staff.

Please join us in thanking our amazing Housekeeping team for everything they do and the important role they play.