2012 was truly a year of firsts in our new

organization. As we started to settle in to

our new environment it was time to start

innovating. And we did!

This was the inaugural year for our iCcare

Awards, established by the Board to

recognize an employee, physician and

volunteer who consistently demonstrate

the values of SAH. The first recipients of

this award were:

Cathy Hallaert—Employee in the

Housekeeping Department

Dr. David Berry—Nephrologist and

Director of the Algoma Regional Renal

Program

Bill Kerr—Volunteer with 10 years of

service at SAH.

This year saw ADCP go live with Mosaic, a

new electronic health record for medical

oncology and radiation therapy. Mosaic

allows nurses in ADCP and Radiation

Therapy to perform electronic patient

assessments. The system also allows

Physicians to enter patient orders

electronically.

In 2012, the Foundation was also innovating

new ways to raise funds for new equipment to

help improve how we deliver patient care.

This was the first year for the Employee

Everyday Hero Campaign, the Around the

World in 30 Days Draw, as well as the

Grateful Patient Program.

2012 was a year of innovation and firsts in our

new building. Helping us get one step closer

to achieving our vision of “best” and living our

iCcare value of Excellence all year!

In September 2012, leaders

received their first taste of lean at

LDI. Leaders learned that lean

and transformation is about living

and breathing our iCcare values

each and every day. A key

message from LDI was that lean

requires front-line staff to solve

the problem. The leaders role is

all about removing barriers. Later

this same year 20

employees were selected

to participate in the yellow

belt certification pilot

project. Candidates were

required to complete 2

days of lean training and a

process improvement

project aimed at reducing

waste and resulting in better

patient care.

Yellow Belt Pilot Project candidates

A Year of Firsts

Lean is Here

Y E A R T W O

years

Do Come True

Celebrator y Newsletter

Left to Right Bill Kerr Cathy Hallaert,

Dr. David Berry

“I was amazed at how

busy it was in this unit

and how all of the

different positions in

the area worked

collaboratively.“

Dr. Costain instructs

the students on how to

apply a cast.

IPAC and IT are SSMARt

Wellness Committee Firsts This year the Wellness

Committee celebrated it’s

first year in existence and

innovated even more

ways to keep us healthy

and well at work.

The Wellness Committee

celebrated many firsts in

2012 such as;

SAH Kids Career Day

An event targeted at high

school students

considering a career in

health care.

Take the Stairs

Campaign

The goal is to promote

employee health by

boosting energy and

burning calories. There

were 60 prize winners

that week and 19

participants in the

Commitment Challenge.

These participants

completed

23 531 steps and 871

flights of stairs.

Walk in My Shoes

The goal of this program

is to allow a variety of

staff to experience and

appreciate the wide

variety of important day-

to-day roles performed

by others across the

organization. For the

first Walk in My Shoes

event 20 participants

paired up with 22

buddies to see first hand

the challenges and

rewards of other

departments.

Wellness Champion

A program to recognize

staff members who have

demonstrated a

commitment to wellness.

What a year of firsts for

the wellness committee!

build a web-based hand

hygiene app to conduct

the Ministry-mandated

hand hygiene audits.

Previously in paper

form, audit results had

to be manually entered

into the database and

spreadsheet. The

development of this

new web-based app,

when used with a

suitable device such as

a tablet or notebook,

eliminates the need to

copy the data from

paper worksheet onto

the computer, which

increases time spent on

other Infection Control

activities, such as

educating staff, patients

and visitors. What a

year of innovative firsts!

Left to right: Bob Filipowicz,

Judith Edwards and Jim Adams. On July 10, the Sault Ste.

Marie Innovation Centre

honored Northern

Ontario’s brightest science

and technology stars at the

annual SSMARt Innovation

Awards. Congratulations

to IPAC and IT for winning

the Innovative Project of

the Year Award for their

new hand hygiene app! IT

and IPAC partnered to

Quiz Question - In the first ever Take the Stairs Campaign, how many total steps

did the participants do?

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