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June 10, 2011

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Looking forward to a bright future after a year of changes and accomplishments

Trillium Health Centre's Annual General Meeting highlights the year's achievements and directions

MISSISSAUGA/WEST TORONTO, ON – Trillium Health Centre’s Board of Directors and senior leadership had plenty of good news, about the past and the future, to share at Trillium’s Annual General Meeting on June 9.

“Trillium’s future is exceptionally bright. As an organization, we have so much to look forward to,” said Anne Sado, Chair, Board of Directors, referring to Trillium’s continuing development plans for a seniors complex in West Toronto, the official opening of the University of Toronto – Mississauga Medical Academy this fall, and the next steps in the proposed merger with The Credit Valley Hospital.

“I am very proud of the good work that this Board has done to help Trillium become one of the top academically-affiliated community hospitals in the country, and I am very excited by the new direction that Trillium has taken in its partnership and integration plans,” she said.

Sado expressed her pride in the way the Board of Directors has evolved over the past two years. “We have moved forward from being a fiscal board, only looking at the financial health of the organization, to becoming a policy board,” she said. “A policy board is one that is focused on the product of the organization that it serves, and creates policies that enable that organization to produce the best possible product - quality health care that serves our community’s needs.”

Janet Davidson, O.C., president and CEO, looks forward to “new challenges, new partnership opportunities, and new chances to further improve the care our patients and their families receive” in the coming year, but also reflected on her past four years with Trillium, praising the people whose passion makes all the difference.  

“The passion for quality health care that I first saw when I joined Trillium Health Centre is just as strong now as it was then. This past year has been one of changes and challenges,” said Davidson. “Every time, Trillium’s staff, physicians, volunteers and Board of Directors have risen to the occasion.”

Davidson shared her own passion for several of the key initiatives undertaken at Trillium in the past year, including the use of safety crosses at clinical units and a new interdisciplinary patient care program, Collaborative Care by Design

“A safety cross is a piece of paper, in the shape of a cross, that is used to track the number of patient-safety-related incidents that occur in that unit on a day-by-day basis. It gives staff and physicians a visual reminder of their patients’ safety. Green is good and red is not,” she said. “Safety crosses are not exciting new technology. They are a simple thing. And they have been enthusiastically adopted throughout the hospital for the best possible reason: Using them promotes patient safety.”

Trillium Health Centre is making significant improvements in patient care by engaging all staff in a program called Collaborative Care by Design, an interdisciplinary approach to enhancing patient care.

“We are just beginning to roll-out Collaborative Care by Design at Trillium but it would not be possible without that spirit of ownership and that sense of ’we’ that enables our team members to work with each other across units and positions, throughout the hospital,’’ said Davidson.

Davidson was also proud that Trillium has been recognized twice this year for its efforts to create a healthy workplace for its staff, physicians and volunteers.

“Trillium received the Platinum Award for Quality Healthy Workplace from the Ontario Hospital Association and Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care’s HealthForce and was named one of this year’s Best Workplaces in Canada by the Great Place to Work Institute Canada,” she said.

As outlined in the Treasurer’s Report, Trillium balanced its $462.6 million budget despite budgetary constraints and increasing demand for services.

“I am pleased to report that in fiscal 2010/11 and for the third consecutive year, Trillium Health Centre met its budget plan and was able to balance operations,” said Nick Zelenczuk, treasurer and chair of the resources committee. “Trillium also met its commitment to the working capital recovery plan by generating a budget surplus of $6.9 million.”

For a copy of Trillium’s 2010/11 Annual Report, go to
http://www.trilliumhealthcentre.org/publications/annualreport.html

About Trillium Health Centre

Trillium Health Centre is one of Canada’s largest academically-affiliated hospitals providing quality and safe care to more than one million residents in Mississauga, southwest Toronto and the surrounding areas.

Trillium is a 790-bed regional referral centre with highly-specialized, complex programs in advanced cardiac, vascular, stroke, neurosciences, orthopaedic, seniors health and sexual assault/domestic violence services. Trillium’s $462.6 million annual budget supports the 4,305 staff, 715 physicians and 1,100 volunteers who care for the 778,000 patients who visit each year.

Trillium - Mississauga has an Emergency Department, inpatient units and surgical centre while an Urgent Care Centre, day surgery and other outpatient programs are located at Trillium - West Toronto. Trillium Health Centre Foundation, the health centre’s fundraising arm, inspires the community to invest in the hospital. Trillium is recognized by Accreditation Canada, National Quality Institute and Ontario Health Quality Council for providing safe, high-quality health care and leadership in a healthy workplace. 

For more information, go to www.trilliumhealthcentre.org.

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Media Contact:
 
Larry Roberts
Media Relations Advisor
Trillium Health Centre
Office: 905-848-7580 ext. 3832
Mobile: 416-358-7201
lroberts@thc.on.ca