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Benefits directly related to the April 2010 integration with Ontario Shores Centre for Mental Health Sciences were the focus of a presentation delivered to the December meeting of the Northumberland Hills Hospital Board of Directors by Scott Pepin, Director of NHH's Community Mental Health Services.

The NHH Board and management engaged Ontario Shores in June 2008 to conduct an operational review of hte mental health programs at NHH, explained Mr. Pepin.

What resulted was a comprehensive three-month review including a local service analysis and operational recommendations to enhance the program by increasing linkages with Ontario Shores, the regional mental health centre in Whitby.

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Northumberland Hills Hospital Foundation Board Chair Ann Logan and Northumberland Hills Hospital Board Chair John Hudson are pleased to announce that Rhonda Cunningham, Executive Director of the NHH Foundation, has achieved the highest level of designation within her professional association, the Association of Healthcare Philanthropy (AHP).

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Seven (7) confirmed cases of Vancomycin Resistant Enterococcus (VRE) have been identified on two medical units (2A and 2B) at Northumberland Hills Hospital (NHH). The patients affected are not sick from the bacteria and are carriers only.

While not required to publicly report cases of non-symptomatic or dormant VRE, NHH has chosen to bring the outbreak to the public's attention in an effort to reiterate the importance of hand hygiene now and at all times in the hospital environment and community.

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Local high school students interested in pursuing a career in the health care sector had an opporutunity to learn first-hand about their many options on Monday, November 28th.

For the seventh yar in a row, the Workforce Development Board (WDB) partnered with Northumberland Hills Hospital (NHH) to offer Adventures in Healthcare, a popular career symposium attended this year by eighty students.

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The NHH Board has approved the 2012/2013 Operating and Service Plan for the hospital.

The Plan achieves the hospital's obligation to balance its budget in the next fiscal year while providing for:

- new investments to strengthen staff development and interprofessional practice;

- expansion of outpatient chemotherapy services;

- new investments in surgical services to strengthen the program; and,

- completion of a commitment originally made by the NHH Board in March 2010 to close NHH's 11 interim long-term care (nursing home) beds.

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Hospital staff gathered in the Main Street Bistro today for the annual Health Hands Award ceremony.

Presented to members of the team who demonstrate the hospital's values of integrity, quality, respect, collaboration and compassion, the peer-generated Awards--presented since 2003--have become one of the most popular forms of staff recognition at NHH.

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At a ceremony in downtown Toronto last night, Northumberland Hills Hospital's President and CEO Robert Biron was named the recipient of the 2011 Graduate Leadership Award from the Society of Graduates of the University of Toronto's Faculty of Medicine's Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation.

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The pressures facing our current health care system are well known. So too are our collective goals, including access, quality and sustainability.

In June, the Ontario Hospital Association and the Ontario Association of Community Care Access Centres released a thought-provoking policy paper on health care reform. The document is recommended reading for anyone in our community with an interest in the health care system and the priorities that lie ahead.

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The Annual and Special Meeting of the Members of Northumberland Hills Hospital was hosted by the Hospital’s Board of Directors on Thursday, June 16th.

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A time-honoured tradition at Northumberland Hills Hospital is the annual spring ceremony celebrating staff accomplishments in the areas of education, innovation and long service. On the evening of Thursday, May 12th, the Northumberland Hills Hospital’s Education Centre was again filled to capacity with family, friends and colleagues receiving awards or on hand to join in on the well-earned recognition of their peers.

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Health reform and hospital governance experts Graham Scott and Maureen Quigley are the next guests in the area’s new Conversations speakers’ series aimed at encouraging discussion around issues pertinent to local health care.

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Attracting full-time Emergency Department (ED) physicians can be a challenge for any hospital, but for small community hospitals the competition posed by larger centres makes it particularly difficult.

When the NHH team heard of a US-based physician specialized in Emergency Medicine was interested in relocating to the area, they quickly organized an opportunity to demonstrate all that NHH had to offer. By January, 2011, NHH had succeeded in recruiting a new full-time Emergency Medicine physician--positive news for NHH and the physician involved.

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National public health reporter and best-selling author André Picard is the next guest in the area’s new Conversations speakers’ series aimed at encouraging discussion around issues pertinent to local health care. Mr. Picard will take the stage at Port Hope’s historic Capitol Theatre at 7:00 PM on Wednesday, April 27th for what promises to be a very thought-provoking discussion on health system sustainability. A question and answer session will follow the formal remarks.

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 NHH has finalized its 2011/12 budget and service plan.

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Hospital staff gathered in the Main Street Bistro today for the annual Healing Hands Award ceremony.

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Northumberland Hills Hospital has teamed up with the volunteers in the NHH Foundation’s Caring for Generations Society to offer a new speakers’ series aimed at encouraging discussion around issues pertinent to local health care. 

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A new Restorative Care Program opened at Northumberland Hills Hospital (NHH) on Tuesday, March 1st, specially designed to help local patients rebuild their strength and return home safely following an acute illness, injury or de-conditioning.

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Delirium is a subtle, but all-too-common problem that can strike elderly adults when they are ill and hospitalized.

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Northumberland Hills Hospital has teamed up with the volunteers in the NHH Foundation’s Caring for Generations Society to offer a new speakers’ series aimed at encouraging discussion around issues pertinent to local health care.

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Effective Monday, January 24th, patients brought to the NHH Emergency Department (ED) with a head injury will have a new system of electronic and human supports waiting at the ready to get them the care they need as quickly as possible.

The Emergency Neurosurgery Image Transfer System (ENITS) is a welcome complement to the top-of-the-line digital CT scanner installed at NHH in 2009 thanks to community donations.

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The January edition of In Touch, NHH’s community newsletter, is now available! In this edition, read about the work of Obstetrician-Gynecologist Dr. Asiya Hameed, find details on the first baby born at NHH in 2011 and get the latest on upcoming events, including the NHH Auxiliary’s Fourth Annual Polar Dip!

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The NHH Auxiliary is once again seeking brave and hardy dippers to take part in the fourth annual Polar Bear Dip. This year the event takes place on Saturday, February 19 at 1:00 p.m., on the Cobourg Pier.

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Sarah and Jason Lennox of Cobourg are the proud parents of the first baby born at the Northumberland Hills Hospital in 2011.

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The December edition of In Touch, NHH’s community newsletter, is now available! Read how NHH is strengthening its community linkages with new Board committee members.

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One year ago last week, NHH announced the expansion of its mammography service with the introduction of an important new addition: the Ontario Breast Screening Program (OBSP).

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Today marks the official kick-off of the 17th Annual Light up a Life fundraising campaign, in support of the Northumberland Hills Hospital Foundation. Funds raised through this year’s campaign will help NHH invest in new information technologies.

(Click here to make a secure on-line donation to the Light up a Life Campaign).

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Jennifer Gillard, Director, Communications and Community Engagement, was presented with the Ontario Hospital Association’s Communicator of the Year 2010 award at the HealthAchieve convention earlier this week. The award, presented in Toronto, recognizes outstanding communicators working in health care organizations across the province.

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NHH publishes its In Touch community newsletters in two formats: a monthly, one-page edition, and more lengthy special feature editions. The newsletters are distributed to the community in hard-copy through the Northumberland News and Northumberland Today, and in electronic format via this website.

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Hospitals strike formal partnership to better serve patients

The partnership between the region’s hospitals that care for patients with kidney disease is growing stronger. Today the three hospitals: Peterborough Regional Health Centre (PRHC), Ross Memorial Hospital (RMH), and Northumberland Hills Hospital (NHH), along with the Peterborough site of Dialysis Management Centre Inc. (DMC) and the Peterborough Regional Nephrology Associates (PRNA) have released a new strategic plan.

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New funding protects acute care services and introduces new restorative care program

Implementation of an innovative and comprehensive ALC strategy has commenced at NHH following agreement on additional funding from the Central East Local Health Integration Network (CE LHIN) and approval of the strategy by the NHH Board on Thursday, August 26th.

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The August meeting of the Northumberland Hills Hospital Board of Directors opened with the presentation of the hospital’s annual Health Professions Scholarships.

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The vision of the Community Gardening Group launched by the NHH community mental health team three years ago was simple: to help clients of the Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) team regain a sense of purpose and value by providing the opportunity to connect with nature and experience being “part of something greater.”

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Patients and community members now have a new tool for assessing surgical operations at Northumberland Hills Hospital and other hospitals around the province.

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The spin-off benefits of the Hospital’s support for its employees’ continuous learning will be evident at NHH on Friday, July 23 when nurse Kim Baxter hosts the area’s first Look Good Feel Better event.

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Members approve by-law amendments to strengthen governance oversight

The Board of Directors of the Northumberland Hills Hospital (NHH) hosted a successful Annual and Special Meeting of the Members (ASM) at the Best Western on Thursday night (June 17), with approximately 300 people in attendance.

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The latest edition of In Touch, dedicated to a special message from John Hudson, Chair of the Hospital’s Board of Directors, and correcting misinformation circulated in statements from the Citizens for Alternative Solutions, is now available.

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The Board of Directors of Northumberland Hills Hospital today expressed its profound disappointment that the Citizens for Alternative Solutions (CAS) is engaging in tactics that clearly fail to fulfill its stated intent to work with the Board for the benefit of the community.

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The Board of Northumberland Hills Hospital is pleased to announce the results of careful deliberations to fill five (5) vacancies on the Hospital Board.

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The Board of Directors of the Northumberland Hills Hospital (NHH) will host representatives of Citizens for Alternative Solutions (CAS) at a special open meeting this week. Arranged at CAS’s request, the purpose is to receive details about their proposals.

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Notice is hereby given that an Annual and Special Meeting of the Members of the Northumberland Hills Hospital will take place on Thursday, June 17, 2010, at the Best Western Inn, 930 Burnham Street, Cobourg, in the Ballroom.

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NHH publishes its In Touch community newsletters in two formats: a monthly, one-page edition, and more lengthy special feature editions. The newsletters are distributed to the community in hard-copy through the Northumberland News, and in electronic format via this website.

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Patients, family members and staff involved with Northumberland Hills Hospital’s community-based Mental Health Program are benefiting from an exciting new regional collaboration with Ontario Shores Centre for Mental Health Sciences (Ontario Shores).

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A key component of Northumberland Hills Hospital’s 2010/11 budget and service plan was a commitment from both the Central East Local Health Integration Network (Central East LHIN) and NHH to work together to address the growing number of Alternative Level of Care (ALC) patients.

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Family, friends and colleagues filled the Education Centre at NHH last evening for the Hospital’s annual ceremony celebrating staff accomplishments in the areas of service, leadership and education.

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Northumberland Hills Hospital is moving forward with the implementation of its 2010/11 budget and service plan following the Central East Local Health Integration Network’s approval on March 16.

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NHH publishes its In Touch community newsletters in two formats: a monthly, one-page edition, and more lengthy special feature editions. The newsletters are distributed to the community in hard-copy through the Northumberland News, and in electronic format via this website.

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NHH’s official confirmation of Accreditation Canada’s stamp of quality approval has been received! The letter, which reached the Hospital late last week, announced: “Accreditation Canada has reviewed the results from your on-site survey and is pleased to inform you that the decision awarded to your organization is Accreditation.”

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Latest edition of In Touch, NHH's community newsletter

NHH publishes its In Touch community newsletters in two formats: a monthly, one-page edition, and more lengthy special feature editions. The newsletters are distributed to the community in hard-copy through the Northumberland News, and in electronic format via this website.

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Decisions reflect community input to focus resources on acute care services
At a special meeting last night, the NHH Board of Directors deliberated and finalized its 2010/11 budget and service plan. The plan ensures that the Board meets its financial obligations to balance its budget and repay debt, while maintaining quality and safe patient care for acute care services.

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NHH publishes its In Touch community newsletters in two formats: a monthly, one-page edition, and more lengthy special feature editions. The newsletters are distributed to the community in hard-copy through the Northumberland News, and in electronic format via this website.

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Jasmine Wishart and Maxwell Smith of Port Hope, Ontario, are the proud parents of the first baby born at the Northumberland Hills Hospital in 2010.

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Report to go to the NHH Board in January, for consideration in the development of a new Strategic Plan and Service Plan needed to position the Hospital for long-term success.

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NHH staff met in the Hospital’s Main Street Bistro this afternoon for the sixth annual Healing Hands Award ceremony.

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The Northumberland Hills Hospital is pleased to announce the launch of the Hospital’s first Volunteer Chaplaincy Program.

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To help Ontarians decide what to do when they think they may have the flu, the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care has developed an on-line self-assessment tool.

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Northumberland Hills Hospital invites area residents to participate in an important Public Roundtable Meeting on Saturday, November 14.

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Twenty-eight residents of west Northumberland County have committed five of their Saturdays from October, November and December to bring the community’s perspective to potential choices related to service provided at NHH.

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NHH will be moving forward with the creation of a Citizens’ Advisory Panel (CAP) this fall following unanimous approval of a plan by the Board at its August 27 meeting.

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Two local students were awarded cheques of $1,000 this evening, at the presentation of NHH’s annual Health Professions Scholarships.

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 At the June 18 meeting of the NHH Board of Directors, a motion was passed unanimously approving the next steps to address the Hospital’s budget challenges through the establishment of a Community Advisory Panel.

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