Posts Tagged ‘Sue Denomy’

Bluewater Health unveils new strategic plan

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Bluewater Health has unveiled a new version of its three-year strategic plan as it continues to focus on “exemplary healthcare experiences, every time.” The organization’s eight corporate goals include: embed patient and family centred care improve access to care ingrain patient safety advance technology achieve financial health optimize partnerships develop our people create a lean [...]

Bluewater Health earns quality award

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  Bluewater Health has earned a 2012 Quality Healthcare Workplace Award from the Ontario Hospital Association (OHA) and the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care’s HealthForceOntario (HFO). The Quality Healthcare Workplace Award recognizes employer and staff efforts in fostering and establishing healthy workplaces. The awards also acknowledge commitment from senior leaders to improve healthcare workplaces in [...]

Bluewater Health continues to provide more services without knowing now much provincial funding it will get

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Two years after occupying its new Sarnia facility, Bluewater Health still doesn't know how much the province will pay it for new cases it is handling as a result of the facility. And CEO Sue Denomy says that is a big concern, especially since the province might want at least some of the money Bluewater [...]

Bluewater Health says it intends to review OHA executive salary recommendations

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Even as it disclosed (as required by law) those it employs who earned more than $100,000 in 2011, Bluewater Health says its board of directors will review recommendations made by the Ontario Hospital Association regarding executive compensation. Board chair Bruce Davies says the the OHA's "CEO Compensation Framework" will be studied "very carefully in the short [...]

Bluewater Health says report is step in improving accountability, transparency

Bluewater Health says it is embracing new legislative requirements aimed at increasing accountability and transparency. On Wednesday, the organization posted the first report of its executives’ and volunteer Board members’ expenses on its website at www.bluewaterhealth.ca (click on Performance & Accountability/Expense Reporting). Bluewater Health will report on these expenses every six months in keeping with [...]

Bradley wants answers about dialysis units at Bluewater Health

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The mayor of Sarnia wants to know when additional capacity will be available at the dialysis unit at Bluewater Health in order that local people need not travel to London several times a week for treatment. In a letter five years ago from then hospital President and CEO David Vigar, Mike Bradley says a dialysis [...]

Building enhancements ongoing at CEE Petrolia

Work has begun on improvements to Charlotte Eleanor Englehart (CEE) Hospital of Bluewater Health in Petrolia. The enhancements, at a cost of $130,000, includes painting of corridors and public spaces, upgrading fire pumps, Installation of a new boiler/chiller for energy-efficient heating and cooling, development of the commemorative Englehart Garden in recognition of the hospital’s 100th anniversary [...]

Bluewater Health earns 97.8% marks in recent accreditation

Bluewater Health has announced the results of its recent accreditation survey, having achieved 97.8% of Accreditation Canada’s standards of excellence in quality of care and patient safety. As a result, the hospital has received its accreditation status from 2011 to 2014, said President and CEO Sue Denomy. “We are thrilled by the positive comments from the [...]

Bluewater Health goes under the microscope on Monday

  Bluewater Health is hosting a four-person survey team from Accreditation Canada beginning on Monday, April 11.. Accreditation Canada is an independent organization that provides healthcare organizations with an external peer review to assess quality of services based on national standards of excellence. “Bluewater Health embraces continuous quality improvement and by participating in the voluntary [...]

Quality Improvement Plan kicks off today at Bluewater Health

  The first ever Quality Improvement Plan takes effect today at Bluewater Health at its sites in both Sarnia and Petrolia. The improvement targets for this fiscal year are aimed at hand hygiene, infection prevention and control, falls prevention, wait times for emergency and cancer surgery, patient outcomes, patient satisfaction and financial health. “While our [...]