Trillium In The News

The Streetsville Booster

Making the Rounds

Welcome to Community Living Mississauga’s eleventh monthly column in the Booster. Established in 1955, Community Living Mississauga is a non-profit organization which provides support to people who have an intellectual disability to ensure that their quality of life in the community is meaningfully improved. These stories are about people who have overcome tremendous obstacles and now lead full productive lives.

Amid the steady flow of doctors making their rounds, nurses checking in on their patients, monitoring machines beeping, and people talking, you’ll find Andy Macpherson hard at work. Andy was recently named Trillium Health Centre’s CareSmart Employee of the month for December 2002.

Andy has worked at Trillium Health Centre for almost 20 years. As a seasoned veteran in the Environmental Services department, Andy ensures that each of the five floors he works on each and everyday have soiled linens removed for patients and staff. After collecting the linens, Andy ensures the linens are brought to the linen trailer where garments are taken offsite for laundering.

“Monday is the busiest day, but I am able to handle it,” says Andy, who enjoys his job and his co-workers. His dedication and enthusiasm are very much noted and appreciated by his co-workers.

“Andy is a very hard working and diligent employee. His positive attitude is reflected in everything he does and this has been noted by Trillium staff and patients,” remarks Andy’s supervisor, Ingrid McKee.

“When Andy first started this job, he was given three pages of information detailing routes and schedules to help him get oriented within the hospital. By the end of the first day, I had trouble keeping up but Andy had his routes and schedules memorized by day three,” says Muriel Archibald, Andy’s support worker at Community Living Mississauga, who visits Andy occasionally. Muriel has worked with Andy since 1991 providing three to four hours of support a week. “The hospital has been pivotal to Andy’s success on the job,” notes Muriel as she describes a warm and supportive staff.

Andy’s hard work is appreciated by all including co-worker, Pia Battagin.

“Andy treats every day as though it were his first day on the job, he quietly inspires staff throughout Trillium, reminding all that a job well done comes with it’s own rewards.”

Andy lives on his own about five minutes away from Trillium Health Centre.

He’s Living Life, Living Proof, that Community Living really works!
 

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