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Credit Valley's strategic goals are safety,
quality, and accessibility.
We celebrate those who embrace these goals
in their everyday work.
The Handley Award celebrates Credit Valley's commitment
to safety.
The Dr. Don Black Bursary offers education so that we
can sustain that level of care.
One of our cancer centre nurses was recognized as the recipient
of the Toronto Star Nightingale Award.
And the Dr. Calvin Gutkin Quality Award recognizes
quality in patient care.
(Kathryn Hayward-Murray) So the next piece that we'd like to talk to you about
is the Cal Gutkin award.
This was an award-- it is a quality award.
It's an internal award that was created in 1995.
And at this point, I'm going to turn over to Mike,
who's going to give you a little bit of history around
each of the initiatives.
So the first is the emergency department TACC team,
which stands for the Treatment and Assessment Care Center.
This team was put together to improve access to care.
The TACC has been instrumental in helping the emergency
department meet its pay-for-result wait time
targets through improving patient flow
and operational efficiencies.
Next up nominated was the Women's Reproductive
Mental Health Program team.
It submitted its Perinatal Mood Disorder or PMD initiative,
which provides for the early identification access
of care and management to women with PMD.
The third nomination came from the Early Pregnancy Clinic
team, which was developed to enhance patient care
for women and their families experiencing
a first trimester pregnancy loss.
As an advanced level two regional centre with
approximately 5,000 births per year, our hospital
cares for a significant number of patients
who experience early complications in their first
trimester of pregnancy.
[audience applauding]
The fourth nomination came from the Schizophrenia Program
HOPES Initiative team, which addresses factors associated
with metabolic syndrome.
This syndrome occurs with patients
on anti-psychotic medications.
The fifth and final nomination this year came
from The Patient Flow Collaborative,
which was created to improve the transition
of general medicine patients.
This initiative has improved communication among patients,
families, and team members through home first,
daily bullet rounds, and the use of visual triggers.
So that concludes our five nominations and I'll
invite Kathryn to come up and announce the winner.
So now I need the drum roll.
[audience pounds on tabletops]
So I'm pleased to announce that the 2010 recipient of
the Cal Gutkin award is the Early Pregnancy Clinic team.
[audience applauding]
(Kathryn Hayward-Murray) I would like to acknowledge and congratulate all the nurses
at Credit Valley for the important contribution
that you make each and every day to the provision of safe,
quality patient care.
We work hard to live the values of the hospital,
excellence, diversity, leadership, and partnership.
This morning, we are excited to include a very special event
as part of our Nursing Week kickoff ceremony,
the presentation of the Toronto Star Nightingale Award.
There was nothing more exciting than seeing one of our own
Credit Valley nurses on the front of the nursing week
section of the Star on Saturday,
our own Carole Veenema, an oncology nurse
at Credit Valley since 1987.
It is our honour to recognize our ninth recipient
of the Toronto Nightingale Award, Carole Veenema.
Carole serves as a wonderful role model for young men
and women choosing the nursing profession for their future.
She represents the very best qualities in nursing.
Carole, your story touched the judge's committee.
It demonstrated the commitment, the caring, and need for
compassion for every patient.
[audience applauding]
Congratulations to Carole and to all the staff
at Credit Valley Hospital.
[audience applauding]
Right away, right away I could tell that
she was special.
And within the first 5 minutes of sitting in the--
I call it the electric chair.
I shouldn't say that, but that was my little name for it.
And within 5 minutes of sitting in that chair,
she had me laughing.
Carole knew exactly how to handle me.
That's why I called her a genius.
Thank you so much, Carole, for getting me through this, well,
the toughest race of my life.
Thank you.
[audience applauding]
A great thank you to all my friends,
the Credit Valley family, who--
I've been here since '87, so I know a lot
of faces out here.
And I'm going to lose it.
So thanks for all your support, and Credit Valley nurses rock!
Happy Nursing Week!
[audience applauding]
(Michelle DiEmanuele) Each year, we have an opportunity to recognize
an employee for their work under the auspices
of the Dr. Donald Black Bursary Award.
The bursary is $1,000 annually that we award and it helps with
education in healthcare and for the individual's contribution
to their educational pursuits.
I am extremely pleased to announce that this year's
recipient is Diane Dunlop.
[audience applauding]
Diane clearly travels with a groupie set over here.
And Diane is enrolled at McMaster University
and is on her way to becoming a primary nurse practitioner.
And so this bursary award will contribute to that pursuit.
And for those of you ?ho have the pleasure of working with
Diane, you will know that she is a dedicated patient advocate
and teaches us each and every day through example on how
to be patient-centred and patient-focused.
And also in helping to really espouse that philosophy
throughout the department in working with her colleagues,
in working with the physicians, in working with the nurses,
in working with administration, and most importantly,
in working with our patients who are there.
So thank you so much for your contribution and for the work
you do each and every day.
Congratulations.
[audience applauding]
(Marianita Lampitoc) The Handley award was created in order to recognize
and acknowledge the efforts of the unit or the department
with the highest hand hygiene compliance per quarter.
But without further ado, I would like to call in Michelle,
Alicia, and Kathryn to actually hand out the award
to the Special Care Nursery.
They actually gathered 96% hand hygiene compliance
for the quarter.
[audience applauding]
I just want to say thank you on behalf of the Special Care
Nursery staff for their award recognition.
Hand hygiene is a high priority in the nursery because of
the population that we care for.
Our premature babies that are immunocompromised
and infants that are otherwise compromised.
And we have the opportunity to teach our mums and dads
the importance of hand hygiene.
And they, in turn, share that education with their support
people, so it's a win-win because we're keeping
the babies healthy and also doing some healthcare teaching
into the--that'll go out into the community
and continue that spread of information.
So thank you very much.
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[If You're Happy and You Know It playing]
If they're dirty or they're not, wash your hands
If you rub for 15 seconds, raise your hands
If you always clean them up, you can win the Handley Cup
If they're dirty or they're not, wash your hands
One more time!
If they're dirty or they're not, wash your hands
If you rub for 15 seconds, raise your hands
If you always clean them up, you can win the Handley Cup
If they're dirty or they're not, wash your hands