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April 2018 Join us in Celebrating Doctors’ Day on May 1st! Tomorrow, May 1st, is Doctors’ Day in Ontario and HSN would like to say thank you to all physicians and residents for their dedication and compassionate care of patients. From L to R: Dr. Rob Anderson, Anaesthesia; Dr. Derek Manchuk, Anaesthesia & Critical Care; Christina Dr. Chris Bourdon; Dr. Tyler Christie; Tremblay, Local Education Group Administrator for Dr. Robert Ohle - Emergency Medicine Physicians Anaesthesia. Dr. Angèle Brabant, Internal Medicine & Dr. Andre Roch & Dr. Caroline Mailloux - Family Medicine and Dr. Crystal Boulianne, Family Medicine Resident, NOSM Hospitalist Physicians Flu Dashboard What should be happening What is actually happening Status Target Actual Red/Green 4115 (100%) 3140 (76%) of HCWs complete the mandatory reporting of of HCWs have completed the mandatory reporting their influenza status to the OHSS by 01 DEC. 2017. of their influenza status to the OHSS. 1 | Dialogue* All employeeApril 2018 records are kept confidential in the OHSS and will inform HCW work preparedness during influenza season Melanie Colbourne, RN; Lena Slivinski, RN; Dr. Andrew Knight, General Practitioner in Oncology; Candice Stasiuk, Dr. Sami Alnasser, Interventional Cardiologist RN; Danielle Nelson, Family Medicine Resident, NOSM. Dr. David Boyle, Medical Director, HSN Surgical Program Dr. Renée Jacques & Dr. Sam Peters, Family Medicine Residents, NOSM DID YOU KNOW? • There are 350+ physicians who provide care at HSN, in 25+ medical specialties. • HSN has recruited international physicians from: Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Ireland, including extensive recruitment across Canada and the States. • HSN has 60+ residents training in 9 specialties. CEO Blog Dominic Giroux Dear employees, medical staff, Tomorrow, May 1st, is Doctors’ Day www.yourhsn.ca. Have you had your patient representatives, learners, and next week we celebrate Nurses’ say on this website? Please let your volunteers and Board members -- Week. colleagues and neighbours know Boozhoo, Aanii, Kwe Kwe, that we are interested in everyone’s On May 17th, I look forward to feedback. This last month has shown me celebrating the accomplishments once again what makes HSN an and dedication of numerous We have 22 more internal and exceptional and caring organization colleagues who have completed 25 19 more external focus groups – its people: employees, medical years of service or who are retiring, scheduled between now and June. staff, learners, patient advisors and during HSN’s annual Employee I hope to see many of you as we volunteers. Service Awards Gala. host Shelagh Maloney on May 16th at 7 pm and a repeated session on Hundreds of you attended the Tonight, we are hosting the second May 17th at 7 am, who will speak All-Staff Townhall on April 16th meeting of the 32-member 2019- about patient-centered digital health regarding our 2018-2019 budget 2024 Strategic Planning Steering solutions; Dr. Carrie Bourassa on update. Many of you emailed me Committee for HSN and HSNRI. May 30th at 7 pm and a repeated conveying appreciation for the Under the leadership of Maureen session on May 31st at 7 am, who transparency and the approach McLelland, 44 internal and external will focus on Indigenous health taken, despite the difficult choices focus groups or interviews have and health equity. The last guest of being made. been held, involving 629 participants. our Speaker Series is Francesca In April, over 360 colleagues, patient Grosso who joins us on June 11th at We celebrated National Volunteer advisors, learners, volunteers and 1 pm and June 12th at 7 am, and will Week earlier this month. It was community members, took part speak about Ontario’s post-election very moving for me to thank our in one of nine exciting electronic landscape and HSN’s role in the volunteers at a brunch on April 15th brainstorming sessions facilitated emerging health system. and at a dinner on April 19th. It was by Erik Lockhart. We received 428 clear to me at both events that every submissions through our mobile Seeing so many people engaged volunteer has a personal reason kiosks, which have been placed in the development of our future as to why they invest thousands of at 43 different locations in Greater strategic directions is really inspiring. hours into the betterment of patient Sudbury. We held an Indigenous Thank you for the exceptional work care in our region. Sharing Circle at the Shkagamik- that you do every day in supporting Kwe Health Centre and had more patients and colleagues. We’ve also just celebrated Patient than 300 people attend lectures Experience Week and Medical by Bill Charnetski and Dr. Andreas As always, I welcome comments Laboratory Week, and highlighted Laupacis. on the blog or any other matter. accomplishments in many areas, Cick the links below to reach me. but more importantly, the critical We are also very pleased to have roles our staff play in our day-to-day harvested more than 112 responses Merci, Thank you, Miigwech. successes. on our Strategic Planning website: Get in touch with Dominic: [email protected] dominicgiroux Click here to visit the @Dominic_Giroux @dgiroux1 CEO Blog on the Hub Let’s Build our Future Together! HSN & HSNRI 2019-2024 Strategic Plan Speaker Series To help inform our thinking for the 2019-2024 Strategic Plan, influential “Thought Leaders” will be joining us to share their perspectives on topics that are important to our future. These are interactive, moderated sessions lasting 90 minutes. They are held onsite in the RLHC Cafeteria. There is no cost to attend, however, online registration is mandatory due to limited seating available. In April, we welcomed William Charnetski, Chief Health Innovation Strategist with the MOHLTC and Dr. Andreas Laupacis, Chair of Health Quality Ontario. Coming up in May, we will welcome Shelagh Maloney, Vice-President of Canada Health Infoway to discuss Patient-Centred Digital Health Solutions and Dr. Carrie Bourassa, Research Chair for Indigenous and Northern Health at HSNRI to discuss Indigenous Health and Northern Health Equity. To register, please visit www.yourhsn.ca or click the links on the following page. The Speaker Series events are being jointly sponsored by the HSN Foundation, HSN Volunteer Association, NEO Kids Foundation and the Northern Cancer Foundation. Have Your Say! The mobile kiosks continue to roam throughout the Ramsey Lake Health Centre and off-site locations, to gather views from our front-line staff. To see where they are headed next, visit the Strategic Plan page on the Hub. If you can’t wait for the kiosks, or you missed them when they came your way, you can visit www.yourhsn.ca to have your say through our website! Questions regarding the Strategic Plan process? Email: [email protected] 4 | Dialogue April 2018 Speaker Series Shelagh Maloney How will Patient-Centred Digital Health Solutions influence HSN’s & HSNRI’s future strategic directions? May 16, 2018 | 7:00 p.m. May 17, 2018 | 7:00 a.m. (repeated session) Rock Garden Café, HSN CLICK HERE TO REGISTER TODAY! Speaker Series Dr. Carrie Bourassa How will Indigenous Health & Northern Health Equity influence HSN’s & HSNRI’s future strategic directions? May 30, 2018 | 7:00 p.m. May 31, 2018 | 7:00 a.m. (repeated session) Rock Garden Café, HSN CLICK5 | Dialogue April HERE 2018 TO REGISTER TODAY! HSN Introduces Cardiac MRI Service Pictured left to right: Dr. Chris Bourdon, VP of Medical & Academic Affairs & Emergency Medicine; Dr. Evan Roberts, Chief of Medical Imaging; Beth Dillabough, Senior Medical Radiation Technologist; Dr. Mark Henderson, Medical Director & Chief of Cardiology; Dr. Andreas Kumar, Cardiologist. An advanced new method for A multidisciplinary team including The Cardiac MRI service relies on diagnosing heart disease is a cardiologist, radiologist, and the expertise of medical imaging now offered at HSN. medical imaging technologist will technologists, who are skilled at take an MRI scan of a patient’s using the machine. Radiologists heart. The MRI will provide precise and cardiologists, who have the HSN has launched a cardiac imaging of the heart to determine knowledge regarding the physics Magnetic Resonance Imaging the extent of damage caused by of MRI, guide the MRI scan of the (MRI) service. HSN joins Toronto, the heart attack or inflammatory heart, reads the results. The cardi- Ottawa, London, and Hamilton as heart disease. ologist then develops a treatment centres in Ontario which offer this plan for the patient. highly specialized service. Dr. Andreas Kumar is the lead HSN will focus its cardiac MRI ser- cardiologist for this service. Dr. vice on suitable patients who have Kumar was part of the team that been admitted to hospital with launched Canada’s first cardiac heart disease that requires detailed MRI program in Calgary in 2005. understanding of the structure and Dr. Grynspan is a cardiac trained function of the heart, as well as a Radiologist who teamed up with detailed non-invasive analysis of Dr. Kumar to bring this service to the heart tissue. Typical examples Sudbury. are forms of inflammatory heart disease or patients who have suf- fered a heart attack. 6 | Dialogue April 2018 Congratulations to HSN’s Facilities Team! Green Economy North celebrated environmental leaders at their second annual Evening of Recognition on April 12. A total of six nominees were up for the 2018 Environmental Champion Award, with three winners taking home some hardware. Our very own Pat Tessier, Jeff Dunn and Paul Potvin accepted the recognition on behalf of the entire Facilities Team and came home with an honorable mention From L to R: Paul Potvin, Supervisor, Facilities; Pat Tessier, Director, for implementing green initiatives at HSN Facilities; Jeff Dunn, Manager of Building Services and Kristen Kulmala, and generating energy savings across Energy Conservation Coordinator, Greater Sudbury Hydro. its multiple sites, as a means to redirect funding back into front-line patient care.