NEWS in General – June 29
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GGH News
Visitor parking rates going up Monday
A busy month of opportunities for recognition, learning and action
Individual Onsite Psychotherapy Support Program: New Dates
GoodLife Corporate Wellness – Reminders & Recipes
GGH News
Visitor parking rates going up Monday
On Monday, July 4, we are introducing new public parking rates for our gated and Pay and Display parking lots. Parking rates for the public have not increased since 2019. The ability to raise rates are dictated by the Ministry of Health, which generally allows rates to increase based on the Consumer Price Index. When parking rates were not increased, the increases can be carried over year to year. As a result, rates for visitors will be increasing as shown in the chart. There will be no increases to staff parking rates at this time.
Please note, the hospital receives no Ministry funding for parking. Revenue from parking is used to refurbish and maintain parking lots, purchase parking equipment, snowplough, salt and clean our parking lots. Any additional revenues are directed to support patient care.
A busy month of opportunities for recognition, learning and action
In June, the Equity, Diversity and Inclusion committee focused on supporting awareness building, learning and recognition of areas that we heard are important to be inclusive for our teams, patients and their families. So it’s been a busy month of opportunities for recognition, learning and action within a busy time.
Accessibility Awareness Month
We started the month with a focus on helping all of our employees access and use AODA training and the equity, diversity and inclusion fundamentals webinar on our LMS.
PRIDE
We also recognized the important contributions of our teams and professionals in health care and the community that are LGBTQIA. We will continue to ensure that our teams have visible indicators that this is a Safe Space for people who are LGBTQIA to receive care, support their friends and family in receiving care, join our teams and develop their careers. And we will be funding 101 levels of education through the Rainbow Health Alliance and our LMS to support you in these efforts.
National Indigenous History Month
And finally, we made some history by launching a partnership with Southwest Ontario Aboriginal Health Access Centre and Katrina Graham, in particular, with an indigenous patient navigator program. We started this new partnership with a hand drum circle and are supporting all our employees to learn more about the program and how this supports reconciliation through attending future hand drum circles and our LMS learning activities.
Canada Day
The month closes out with Canada Day. It’s a time to reflect on the contributions our families, co-workers, friends, and community make to Canada and its future. And it also includes recognizing the truths of colonization and our individual and collective responses to the calls to action.
What’s Next?
We hope to have created opportunities for reflection, learning and empowerment towards a better understanding of what our patients, their families and teams need in terms of feeling welcome at GGH.
The equity, diversity and inclusion committee is very interested in understanding how you experienced the activities this month. What did you value, and what do we need to do more of, or differently? Share at inclusion@gghorg.ca, and this will be brought to our meeting in July.
*The resources related to all these awareness-building activities continue to be available to you on the LMS.
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Individual Onsite Psychotherapy Support Program: New Dates
There continues to be a very positive response to the individual psychological supportsGGH Health & Wellness is offering staff and professional staff and Vij Richards, Reg. Psychotherapist, RN (retired) will be back for three more months! Please see below for her availability, and sign-up procedures. This confidential program will run until
Sept. 2022 and it is our hope that this pilot will inform how we can continue to best support you.
GoodLife Corporate Wellness – Reminders & Recipes
Tomorrow (June 30) is the last day for you to get a GoodLife Corporate Membership and be entered to win a Napoleon 365 BBQ. If you join, you will get our 25% discount off their membership fees, a free GoodLife gym bag, and your enrollment fee is waved! If you’re thinking about taking this next step in your wellness journey, now is the time J Questions? Email HealthAndWellness@gghorg.ca
If you happen to win the BBQ, you could try a few of these healthy and quick summer recipes brought to you by GoodLife Fitness. Their blog is full of great resources, including workouts, meal planning tips, and articles on mental wellbeing (just to name a few!).