Inside Electronic Patient Records and Pharmacy Information System,” Registered Nurses Casey Mcmillan, Left, and Megan Lawes Working How You Helped Your Said Dr
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Your donations help save lives Summer 2017 THANK YOU, CHRISTMAS ANGELS hristmas Angels from across Grey and Bruce made this Christmas one of the best ever for the Owen Sound Regional Hospital. COver 2,800 donors gave almost $360,000 to the Foundation’s Christmas Angel Campaign for seven new automated medication cabinets needed throughout the Medicine, Surgery and Psychiatry Nursing Units at the Hospital. “My sincere thanks to everyone who supported the campaign,” said Torben Hawksbridge, Foundation Chair. “Donations are critical to having the best possible care available here.” Medications play a key role in the treatment and recovery of many patients. Every day the Hospital’s Pharmacy prepares over 1,000 medication orders. Ensuring each patient gets the right drug, at the right time, in the right dose, is a complex task involving doctors, pharmacy staff and nurses. “The new automated cabinets store up to 300 different medications and are integrated into Grey Bruce Health Services’ inside electronic patient records and Pharmacy Information System,” Registered Nurses Casey McMillan, left, and Megan Lawes working How you helped your said Dr. Brendan Mulroy, former Chief of Staff. The system alerts with a new Medication Dispensing Cabinet. Funds for the new hospital in 2016 .............03 nurses to patient medication allergies and conflicts. State of the art equipment were raised through the Christmas Angel Campaign. thumbprint locks give nurses fast, secure access. Since automated cabinets will be located in each nursing unit, DID YOU KNOW? Introducing nurses have virtually instant access to their patients’ medications. • 10 Pharmacists and 26 Pharmacy Technicians are based at the Amy McKinnon .............06 Shorter wait times improve patient comfort and care. Less Owen Sound hospital. They serve all 6 GBHS hospitals, the paperwork means nurses enjoy more time interacting with and Hanover hospital and the four hospitals under South Bruce Grey New mobile friendly caring for their patients. Health Centre The equipment improves care for patients. Registered Nurses • GBHS Pharmacy stocks more than 2,000 different medication website ..............................07 Cassy McMillan and Megan Lawes remarked, “When a patient items needs a different medication, the new system enables us to • The Pharmacy typically processes 1,000 to 1,200 medication Bequest gifts benefit respond much more quickly, especially at night, when staffing orders per day hospital care ....................09 levels are lower.” • 1.9 million unit-dose items are dispensed each year, along with Introduced in the 1980s, dispensing technology has constantly 68,000 ready-to-use IVs been refined and improved to meet changing needs and health • The Ontario College of Pharmacists oversees hospital standards. GBHS feels the time is right to introduce this pharmacies, visiting all Ontario hospitals to perform annual technology at the Owen Sound Regional Hospital. inspections. Owen Sound Regional Hospital Foundation 1800 8th St. E., Owen Sound, ON N4K 6M9 Connect with us: Call us at 519.372.3925 or visit us at: @oshfoundation www.OSHfoundation.ca 2 Vital SignS 2017 Thank you for supporting the Owen Sound Regional Hospital FOUNDERS These donors have given every year since the The following list of donors includes Donations by clubs and organizations, those who have made donations between corporations, bequests and those Hospital opened. They are an exclusive group that can April 1, 2016 and May 24, 2017. recognized with an In Memory or In never be added to. This includes donations or pledge Honour donation, are listed separately. payments made to the Owen Sound Sometimes we slip and miss a name that Mrs. Helen Alles Ken and Marian Goldsmith Ralph and R. Dorine McGuire Regional Hospital Foundation and the should be on our list! If we missed your Paul and Joanne Brown Mrs. Marie Govier Mrs. Marie Mills Hospital Campaign. Please note, if name, please call the Foundation office and Mrs. Phyllis Brown Mrs. Billie Grainger Mr. Roy Nelthorpe Mrs. Barbara Childs Mrs. Thelma Hatten Mrs. Barbara Olmsted you donated to the Hospital Campaign let us know, so we can correct our records. Mrs. Marguerite Cluley Mrs. Jean Hawken Garth and Joan Pierce through the GBHS Foundations in You can reach us at 519-372-3925. Mrs. Lorraine Costello Mrs. Margaret E. Hopkins Mrs. Anna Reid Southampton, Wiarton and Lion’s Head, If you wish to be anonymous so that Mr. George Cruickshank Mrs. Gladys A. Hyatt Ms. Mabel Richardson Meaford or Markdale, your name will your name will not appear in this report, Mrs. Hazel Davey Mrs. Daphne Ives Ms. Christine Schneider not appear on this list. Nevertheless your contact the Foundation Office. Robert and Linda Droine Mr. and Mrs. Anthony L. Kemp Maureen and Tony Solecki Donald and Mary Edgar Barrett and Norma Lumley Mrs. Janis Thomas support is greatly appreciated! We value your privacy Vern and Lorraine Francis Mr. Walter MacIvor Marie and David Thompson Founders include those individuals While we publish a list of donor names William and Wilma Frost Mrs. Donna Maine Mrs. Gertrude Watson who have donated to the Foundation we do not sell, trade or share our Mervyn and Myrna Fulford Mrs. Shirley McConnachie Mr. Ken Wiley every year since the Hospital opened. mailing lists! Mrs. Helen Georgas Ms. Jo-anne McConnell Mrs. Marjorie Woods PARTNERS These donors have given between April 1, 2016 and May 24, 2017. Thanks for being an important part of the work of the Hospital. Please note that this list does not include Founders, Clubs & Organizations, Business or Corporate donors. Bill and Susan Abbotts Andy & Jamie Ahrens Ms. Wanda Alles Mr. James Abell Dale & Dianne Ahrens Anthony and Joan Allin Mrs. Phyllis Abercrombie Mr. Leonard Aiken Mrs. Marjorie Allin Mr. Bruce Abernethy Mrs. Lois Aiken Rick & Bonnie Almas Marina Ablett and Frederick J. Murray & Debbie Aiken Mrs. Mabel Almond Scott Bob & Eva Aitcheson Mrs. Verna Almond Bill and Rhonda Abra Mr. Howard Aitken Ms. Amanda Alpaugh Ms. Margaret Abra Mrs. Joyce Aitken Mr. Fallah Alrubeyi Branch 340 Royal Canadian Legion presented $3,000 from its Poppy Fund and $2,000 Ms. Sarah Abrams Mr. and Mrs. Scott Aitken Louis and Joanne Altman Mrs. Gwen Acheson Robert and Nancy Akitt Mary Anne Alton and Andy from its Auxilliary in support of Pathology Microscopes at an April 4 meeting. Dan Jack and Linda Acheson Leo & Margaret Al McKee Kelly, President, left, Vicky Taylor, Auxilliary Secretary and Terry Mills, Charity Chair, Mrs. Shirley Ackert Mrs. Mary Alderdice Mr. Robert J. Alton right, present cheques to Willard VanderPloeg. Douglas Acton and Sandra Ms. Linda Aleinik Mrs. Barbara Alviano Thompson Ms. Elizabeth Alexander Mrs. Susan Alward Mr. Norman Andrews Felix and Elizabeth Arcaro Joan and Michael Armstrong Heide and D. G. Acton Ms. Ina Alexander Ms. Jeanette Amdur Ms. Sandra Andrews Mr. and Mrs. Lorne Archer Dr. and Mrs. John D. Armstrong Mrs. Bernice Adams Mr. and Mrs. James Alexander Wayne and Bonnie Amos Mr. Walter Andrushenko Mrs. Lois Archibald Mrs. Lois Armstrong Mrs. Elizabeth M. Adams Mrs. Mary Anne Alexander Mrs. Brigitte Anderson Ms. Alissa Angel Mrs. Yvonne Archibald Ms. Louise Armstrong Freida and Ken Adams Mr. Robert Alexander Mr. David Anderson George and Alanna Angel Mrs. Lynda Ardiel Mrs. Marie E. Armstrong Mr. George Adams Sandra and David Alexander Mrs. Iona Anderson Lloyd and Margaret Angel Mrs. Nona Ardiel Ms. Mary Jane Armstrong Ken and Laurie Adams Mr. William Alexander Mrs. Joanne Anderson Mrs. Marie Angell Mr. Mustafa Arif Murray and Emma Armstrong Mr. Lionel Adams Mrs. Maureen Alguire Ms. Melissa Anderson Mr. Norm Anger Ms. Felicidad Armada-Clarke Mrs. Nancy Armstrong Lloyd and Katharine Adams Lamont and Jayne Allan Norman & Julia Anderson Shawn & Kristy Adams Willard & Sandra Allan Mr. Paul W. Anderson Mrs. Mary Angus Mrs. Amber Armitage Robert and Joyce Armstrong Mrs. Vi Adams Mr. Philip Allanson Mr. Robert Anderson Fred and Geraldine Ankcorn Mrs. Adele Armstrong Mr. and Mrs. Scott Armstrong Ms. Margaret Adams-Williams Mr. Allan Allen Mr. Thomas Anderson Larry and Margaret Anley Mr. Bert L. Armstrong Thomas and Patricia Armstrong Ms. Jay B. Adamson Ms. Carol Allen Vicki and Wayne Anderson Vernon and Dorothea Anschuetz Mrs. Betty Armstrong D. and L. Arnett Mr. Han Adema Mr. Harv Allen Mr. William Anderson Lorne and Dorothy Antonette Ms. Bonnie Armstrong Mr. Tom Arnett Bill and Marilyn Adlam Mrs. Joan Allen Nelson and Jennifer Andrew Acme Anvil Dave and Gayle Armstrong Mr. Harvey Arnold Mr. Mushtaq Ahmed Mr. Keith Allen Mr. Robert F. Andrew Mrs. Margaret Appel Mrs. Geraldine L. Armstrong Mrs. Isobel Arnold Owen Sound Regional Hospital Foundation Vital SignS 2017 3 www.OSHfoundation.ca THANKS for Your Support Your donations are critical to hospital faster, more accurate diagnosis, less invasive care! As my term as Chair of the Hospital treatments, enhanced safety, shorter Foundation draws to a close, I am struck hospital stays, and faster return to regular again by what a generous community we activities for thousands of patients from have and what a difference you make. New throughout Grey and Bruce. Thank you so diagnostic and medical equipment means much for your help and support! THANKS to our volunteers and staff would like to thank Foundation board McKinnon, our new Executive Director. members and our many volunteers Amy begins her work on our behalf on who assist with administration and June 26 and you can read more about her Ifundraising. They make events like our on page 5. golf tournament, curling funspiel and the My sincere thanks also our staff Lori Bayshore Race possible. Morrison and Willard VanderPloeg Executive Director, Paul Weitendorf who keep the day-to-day work of the retired this spring after 20 years with Foundation happening. the Foundation. Thanks to Paul for his excellent leadership. Torben Hawksbridge On behalf of the Board it is my pleasure Chair, to welcome and introduce you to Amy Torben Hawksbridge, Foundation Chair Owen Sound Regional Hospital Foundation very year your regional hospital Women & Childcare: CONCOURS needs new medical equipment.