CONSTRUCTION ADDICTION AND MENTAL EXCELLENT ENERGY AHEAD! HEALTH MOU SIGNED EFFICIENCY Dig into the latest updates on Horizon, Vitalité partner with Energy Network building Issue No. 26, Vol. 6 Horizon’s Capital Projects First Nation communities ‘legacy’ with solutions Summer 2021 Page 9 Page 10 Page 23 HorizonSTAR A publication for the staff of Horizon Health Network OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY HELPS QUADRIPLEGIC PATIENT PURSUE LOVE OF PAINTING Page 5 “It makes me feel more comfortable because I’m able to express what I’m thinking in my language”: New video interpretation service improves patient care Page 6 TMH Neurodegenerative disorder clinic will “help restore some dignity to all patients who have been suffering in silence” Page 16 Contents 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Occupational therapy Interpreter on Wheels: Collaboration and Innovation Seven more years of Construction Ahead! Across Horizon, Vitalité sign Horizon ophthalmologist Horizon is decreasing wait Horizon’s SJRH Lab New Brunswick to helps quadriplegic New video interpretation in SLP: Preserving an ALS accreditation status for Horizon, capital projects are MOU with First Nation establishes clinic times through new Joint Services team sends New Zealand: How a patient pursue service improves patient patient’s voice TMH’s Post-Grad Dietetic in full swing communities with first-of-its-kind Arthroplasty Centre support, treats to N.S. Horizon nurse has stayed love of painting care Internship Program A potrait of a health technology in NB colleagues during third connected with her junior care hero wave of COVID-19 high pen pal OUR MISSION LIVING OUR VALUES Helping People Be Healthy. We show empathy, compassion and respect. We strive for excellence. OUR VISION We are all leaders, yet work as a team. 2021-2026 Exceptional Care. Every Person. Every Day. We act with integrity and are accountable. SOCIAL Efficient and System Wrapped Around Sustainability Appropriate Care Patient/Client Needs · Reduce wait times throughout · Establish a culture to strengthen · Improve accountability for health the system health equity care service delivery results SHOUT- · Improve patient/client safety · Excel and grow as a patient/client · Align human resources to achieve and quality of care and family-centred organization our strategic plan · Coordinate health services · Reduce avoidable hospitalization · Innovate to improve productivity to smooth transitions of care and deliver health care services in · Empower patients, clients and the most cost-effective manner OUT · Provide health care at appropriate providers with options to access locations and times health information and services · Secure clinical and organizational information 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 Pharmacy director Neurodegenerative disorder DECRH Auxiliary Horizon’s Nursing Council: Social Shout-Out How Horizon’s Nurse Horizon’s Workplace Horizon celebrates Horizon is honoured to Did you know Horizon recognized with clinic at TMH will “help celebrates 130 years of Supporting quality nursing Practitioners adapted Violence Prevention employees marking receive the 2020 Legacy has a new Strategic national leadership restore some dignity to all service to its community practice for over a decade their practice during the Program milestone Years of Service Award from NB Power’s Plan? award patients who have been Resources available to COVID-19 pandemic and Retirement Energy Efficiency Horizon’s CCH supports suffering in silence” support patients who are Excellence Awards! school cereal box Deaf or hard-of-hearing challenge On our cover: This magazine is published by Horizon Health Network’s Communications In Every Issue Occupational therapist Dan McShane helps Department, and is distributed free of charge to Horizon staff, physicians Message from CEO and volunteers. A French version can be found online at fr.horizonnb.ca. Editor’s Note patient Alan McEwen pursue his love of painting as an inpatient at Horizon’s The Moncton Editor: GinaBeth Roberts Colleagues’ Corner Hospital, as photographed in early June. Design and layout: Hudson Creative Agency Look Who’s Shining Printed by: Advocate Printing Please send comments and/or story ideas to [email protected]. A welcome note from the editor Dear Staff, Physicians and Volunteers, Occupational therapy helps From the bottom of my heart, I would like to sincerely thank all of our staff, physicians and volunteers for working through a global pandemic. As New Brunswickers are now receiving their second and final dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, our borders are opened, and our province is on the Path to Green – quadriplegic patient pursue we can finally look back and say the worst is behind us. Welcome to the 26th edition of the Horizon Star! I understand so many aspects of your life, both professional and personal, changed We are officially on the Path to Green in New Brunswick! during COVID-19. Everyone will look back at love of painting this time differently, but one thing for sure is You may be feeling relief, and are ready to have a more that Horizon and New Brunswick, as a whole, “normal” summer with outdoors events and festivals For Alan McEwen, and many other patients, conquered a global pandemic. This would and travel within Atlantic Canada, or even beyond these the hospital environment is busy. not have been possible without your borders. His room is, too, with many machines and dedication to your profession, but also as cords for his health care team to monitor a New Brunswicker. Together we worked Or, maybe you liked the COVID-19 “normal” and you’re to keep our case numbers low by following his health. still anxious about the virus and re-opening plans. Public Health guidelines. In the middle of this hustle and bustle, As we move forward and return to things All of these anticipations, experiences and feelings are painting brings him calm. we were unable to do during the pandemic, normal, and I’m definitely feeling a cocktail of emotions. 4 please know that as a Horizon employee Alan is quadriplegic and has been a patient 5 you played a significant role in making this Now is a perfect time to reflect on what you and your at Horizon’s The Moncton Hospital for over happen. colleagues – what Horizon – have done over the last 16 a year. Now it’s time to focus on our future. In months. Think about the collaboration, the challenges, Karen McGrath The 62-year-old has been painting “a long, April, we released our strategic plan, Building President and CEO the things you’ve learned, the way you’ve changed how long time,” he said — since his twenties a Healthier Future. The plan serves as our you deliver or even implemented a new program — — and it’s a hobby he continued to pursue outline for how we want to improve the way we provide health care services to during a pandemic! after an accident meant he could no longer our patients, clients and their families, now and for the next five years. use his hands to do so. Going forward, all of our work will be guided by three strategic priorities: I am so lucky to hear so many of these stories in the run He now paints by manoeuvring his 1 Efficient and Appropriate Care of a day’s work, and I encourage all of you to share you paintbrush with his mouth, supported by 2 System Wrapped Around Patient/Client Needs stories with pride. 3 Sustainability. his occupational therapist (OT) Daniel (Dan) In this issue, there are many stories of amazing patient McShane, who holds his canvas and paint. Each of these priorities has objectives which will help Horizon to realize our care that has continued — again — during a pandemic, potential and position us for success in addressing the health care challenges Acrylic is Alan’s choice of paint and Alan and Dan make the perfect mixture of colours. our province is currently facing. More importantly, we understand and value and many stories of improvements or advancements to landscapes are his go-to subject; he has the significant role our staff, physicians and volunteers will have in helping us safe and quality care at Horizon. painted a lighthouse, and is working on a and with the correct pressure so he can achieve our strategic plan. On Pages 6, 7 and 16, learn about Horizon-wide services covered bridge. capture the shadows of his subject. If you haven’t done so already, I encourage you to familiarize yourself with that are support patients with improved communication He’s critical of his own work, and firm our strategic plan and think of ways that you can contribute. We’re interested Dan been with Horizon six months — his in your ideas and encourage you to discuss them with your manager. We’ve tools, and on Page 9 read how capital projects continue in his direction to his health care team, first job in his profession. He met Alan focused our plan on elements we believe to be foundational to all future to build the way for better spaces to provide care. ensuring he has the perfect amount of soon after he started working here, after improvements for health care delivery. “titanium white” or “silver” on his brush the Occupational Therapy unit received And check out the story on Page 13 to learn how lab staff and the canvas is held at the perfect angle Our strategic plan was developed with the help of our patients, clients, staff, a referral to help Alan enjoy more leisure at Horizon’s Saint John Regional Hospital supported their physicians, and health care and community stakeholders and we would like to activities. colleagues in a neighbouring province when COVID-19 thank everyone that contributed helping us develop our plan. “As far as occupational therapy, we always hit hard.