At the hospital, we’ve had an exciting few weeks. Every building on our Petrie campus is aging and this frequently presents us with many challenges. I saw incredible teamwork during and after the recent flood in our Silver building.
The care of our building, our patients, and each other is up to all of us, and I saw so many people helping each other. We had to open two new units within 24 hours to offset the temporary loss of beds due to the flooding—this is a monumental undertaking. Our engineering, environmental services, transformation, and infection control teams worked together to prepare the physical space. In addition, our nursing and medicine teams reorganized themselves to be able to serve both new units. Behind the scenes, the workflow of many others shifted to accommodate sending patients to the temporary units including our admitting team, patient reps and liaisons, registrars, USAs, food and nutrition, physical therapy, IT teams and many, many others.
Click below to scroll through photos of just a few of the people who helped over the past few weeks:
There are many others who jumped into action to keep our patients and colleagues safe during this incident. Thank you all!
I also want to recognize our music therapy team for their patience and resilience, as their space has been flooded twice in the past few years. We have found a new space for them and look forward to helping them settle in.