Providing Outstanding Care in Collaboration
Wellness Committee Achievements:
Listed below are the actions we’ve taken based on your feedback, followed by FE Projects from 2024 to the present.
- Creation of a wellness committee
- Creation of this website
- Mindfulness training – 2 workshops run by by Dr Alysha MacKenzie-Feder
- Bullying Survey and Policy completed
- 1st Regional Civility Tour with Dr Chris Tuner
- 1st WellDoc trail outside of Alberta – an external organization that reviews department needs and provides actionable solutions.
- Launch of the Kudos program
- Better after hours food – advocating for more vending machines after the successful trial of healthy food in the canteen.
- Official Peer Support Service – Support for adverse outcomes. Initially, there were five peer supporters, but now there are 13. It was activated many times throughout the year, particularly with local and personal tragedies and code orange events.
- Breastfeeding facilities – pods are live
- Myra Canyon family day out – more dates to come
- Bowling in the Fall – more dates to come
- Talks on gender equality – local physicians plus Ash Lavediere
- Talk on racial discrimination – Cheryl Jean-Paul
- Advocating for a regional wellness group and representation at HAMAC
- Working towards a culture where psychological safety is a global priority at KGH by broad representation and advocacy
- Collaborating regionally and provincially to ensure we are employing up-to-date wellness policies and procedures
MSA Achievements/Projects:
Listed below are the actions we’ve been taking based on your feedback:
- Snacks in the lounge – supported by physician dues
- Ice cream socials, BBQs and staff appreciation at Christmas (along with a clothing drive)
- Kairos blanket exercise
- Review of medical staff rules
- Hospital –Wide Grand Rounds at KGH
- Recruitment funding
- Departmental retreats
- Acute Radiculopathy Pathway @ KGH
- Canadian Women Physicians Day Physicians Day at KGH 2024
- Canadian Women Physicians Day 2025 and Celebrating Diversity at KGH
- Cardiac Inpatient Environmental Impact Optimization
- Code Rogue
- Consensus Building for Non-Operative Rectal Cancer
- Develop and Implement General Surgery Post-Op Clinical Pathways
- Developing Laboratory Pathways for Neurology
- Division of Critical Care – 5-10 Year Strategic Plan
- Emergency Department Consultant of the Year Award Dr. A. Wong
- ED Trauma Room Redesign
- Engaging in Climate Action at KGH
- Esophageal Cancer Care Collaborative November 2024
- General Surgery In-Service Program
- Hospital-Wide Grand Rounds at KGH
- Implementing PIEB for Labour Analgesia
- Improving Cardiac Perinatal Patient Care
- Improving Patient Care with Pelvic Floor Dysfunction
- KGH Cardiogenic Shock Working Group November 2024
- KGH Department of Surgery – Quality Reviews – Planning Phase
- KGH Hospitalists Retreat 2024
- KGH PoCUS Rounds
- KGH Staff Wellness Unleashed
- KGH Wellness Committee
- KGH Wellness Committee Focus on Gender Equity
- KGH Wellness Committee Review of Medical Staff Rules
- Management of Febrile Infants
- Schwartz pdf
- Multidisciplinary Consensus Building in Neurosurgical Oncology
- Orientation Manual Pediatrics Department
- Pediatrics Locum Retention Review
- Pediatrics Crash Carts
- Pink Shirt Day KGH Medical Staff Bowling Event
- Planning for the Future of Continuing Medical Education
- Recruitment for 7th FTE for the Division of Respirology
- Revamped Microbiology Guide to Lab Services
- Shared Care Asthma Clinic
- Spark
- Strategy Development for the Next Decade (ID Division KGH)
- Support and Discussion Group for New or Expecting Parents
- Supporting the Role of the Family Physician at KGH – Phase I Planning
- Survey of Medical Leadership Remuneration Within KGH – Compared to IH – BC
- Suspected Pancreas Cancer Triage
- Telehealth Improvements for Division of Respirology
- Telehealth Enhancement – KGH Medical Staff Training Session
- The Nutrition Project
- The Terrific Trio’s Triumphs
- Transition of Diabetic Youth to Adult Services
- Web-Solution to Improve KGH Cardiac Patient and Provider Education
- Women in Medicine Working Group
- Update the Assessment for Patients Need for DVT Prophylaxis
KGH Foundation Achievements:
How to source your own funding:
Listed below are various avenues to get your ideas funded:
- Facility Engagement is the best one-stop shop. This is run by your local MSA, and if they can not fund your project, they will link you with the people who can.
- Heath System Redesign (HSR) – looks to larger scale projects that transforms the system. For example we have funded a cadaver lab and educational resources through this.
- Physician quality improvement – a popular favourite. Combining QI learning while funding your quality improvement project.
- Shared Care – focused mainly on community and specialist combined projects but has recently moved to specialist to specialist (has to be a different specialty) to help on larger ideas that trancend our usual silos.
- KGH Foundation – our local favourite, they can often be more nimble in funding and are your only source for funding physician education. Ideas do need a dyad partner within KGH admin but drop them a line and they can point you in the right direction. They also fund equiment but are moving towards innovation.
- JCC Physician Leadership program – they fund multiple leadership course but are also now funding coaching. Rules apply but most people are very successful in their applications.
We Want Your Feedback
We are forming a wellness committee and are looking for your valuable input into what would make our working culture a better place to be. Think childcare massage, gym, yoga, better oncall rooms or annual training in compassion and civility. Sit down with a relaxing cup of your favourite hot drink and let us know what would help you.
Fill out this anonymous survey for all wellness concerns, ideas or feedback – we truly listen.