Shared on behalf of Dr. Rhonda Crocker Ellacott, President and CEO, Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre; CEO, Thunder Bay Regional Health Research Institute

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I wanted to send a note to acknowledge the fast action by staff tonight in dealing with a Code Green evacuation due to an issue with a sprinkler system and water damage in a patient room on 2C.

All of our 2C patients were safely evacuated to the surgical day care and recovery room — and 1C patients were evacuated as a precaution to the paediatric outpatient area.

A sincere thanks to all of the staff for your quick action to support our patients at this time. It was an incredible example of teamwork.

For now, housekeeping, maintenance and a local restoration company are working to clean up the water while a fulsome assessment of the damage is completed in the next day or two. At that time, we will plan for the safe return of patients to the impacted areas.

Again, despite everything else going on right now with an COVID-19 surge, this clearly demonstrated our staff’s ability to respond to a crisis and ensure seamless, safe and effective patient care at all times.

Thank you to everyone who helped out.