Gone Live - generational transformation
Patient care is improving. The way we work is changing.
For over two years that brief mantra has been used to define and motivate the planning, building, and training that has been necessary to launch a generational transformation in health care delivery at West Parry Sound Health Centre.
A giant step in that transformation began at 4:30 a.m. this morning, October 1, when staff and physicians reached ‘go-live’ with a new electronic health information system.
Read more about our transformation to safer, better, smarter.
Safer. Better. Smarter.
Patient care is improving. The way we work is changing.
Thank you to everyone who has taken on additional work to learn and launch our new electronic health information system delivering improved Patient and Family Centred Care at West Parry Sound Health Centre and with our partner hospitals.
Thank you generous donors for supporting our delivery of care.
Read this week's special edition of News Centre.
Rotary supports delivery of local cancer care
The Rotary Club of Parry Sound has recently presented funding to the West Parry Sound Health Centre Foundation that will provide better support to laboratory teams as well as enhancing the overall goal of keeping cancer care local and in our health centre.
These monies were obtained from the Rotary Club of Parry Sound first Annual 3-Pitch Tournament which was an amazing success.
The Rotary Club would like to thank everyone involved for making it a success and helping to raise money for this equipment and the ability to invest in multiple community projects.
Read more inside this edition of News Centre.
Safer, Better, Smarter
The ONE Initiative regional electronic health record project is making patient care safer, better, and smarter.
Safer. .. because the new system helps prevent medication errors. Our new system uses a closed loop medication management (CLMM) process, in which all steps of the medication cycle are supported electronically: ordering, verifying, preparing, distribution and administering.
This is just one of the ways in which the ONE Initiative improves patient safety.
Read the latest edition of The ONE Initiative Newsletter.
Ontario Health Team in development
The West Parry Sound partnership preparing to participate in the provincial reorganization of community-based health care systems has received a supportive response from the Ministry of Health.
Read more in this edition of News Centre.