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MAYNE ISLAND REALLY NEEDS YOU !
YOU CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE AND SAVE LIFES !
We are in a desperate shortage of Paramedics
/ and Ambulance Drivers on this island
and there are days when the Ambulance can not operate!
This Essential service is threatened more than
ever by the lack of people
to join our small but fantastic team of Paramedics!
BC Ambulance will currently pay for training !
Consider it, take time from your busy life and act now !
Giving back to your community, despite any sacrifice you might
have to make, will give you the most positive, fulfilling experience
in your lifetime.
CALL THE HEALTH CLINIC FOR MORE INFORMATION @
539-2312 / DR. LOSIER /
911 AMBULANCE 911 EMERGENCY 911 AMBULANCE
Doctor Losier's Family Medicine Practice
is open @ 539-2312 by appointment on
Wednesday , Thursday , Friday 9- 5 pm weekly
with after hours / weekend emergency on call care
@1-800-505-5009 "
Mondays and Tuesdays /as well Saturday and Sunday/ every 2nd week
a Registered Nurse
is available at the Clinic
call @539-3645 or page @ 1-800-505-5009 with
alternating Doctors phone advice from the
Outer Gulf Islands Call Group
/ Pender Clinic @629-3233 or Galiano Clinic @539-3230 /
Please always check published schedule
or call the Clinic
@ 539-2312 for availability and note the schedule is a subject
of change
Health Centre Notes
September 2008
Hello Everyone,
After something less than a leisurely summer on
the health care scene September is here again and sadly we are
saying good-bye to our First Call nurse Michele Lemay-Watts.
Michele has been an invaluable part of our island health team
for the last four and a half years and she will be greatly missed
both as an excellent nurse and as a supportive, spirited and wonderful
person. We would like to extend to her our most sincere thanks
for all she has done for and wish her all the very best in her
future endeavours.
Her position is to be taken by Ann Hadaway R.N.
B.Sc.M. who comes to us from Chemainus where she has held the
position of Urgent Care Nurse. Ann is enrolled in the M.A. programme
in Counselling Psychology at Yorkville University. She will be
taking up her part time position here on September 6th 2008.
Hope that you have been able to take advantage of
our increased lab. hours now once weekly but hopefully to be increased
once we have the necessary staffing.
We are in the process of planning our health promotion series
of lectures and workshops and there will be more on that in October
when we have all got off the beach and back into working mode!
Stay safe and well,
Cilla Brooke,
Chair. M.I.C.H.A.
August 2008
Hello Everyone,
Am delighted to tell you that we have succeeded
in getting an increase in laboratory time on the island to as
much as two mornings per week. The medical staff are in the process
of deciding on the details of when and how this will be done,
but over the summer we are hoping to be able to provide one morning
a week at the least. We shall be putting up signs to inform you
of days and hours as soon as we can so please look out for them
and/or ask about it at the clinic.
We encourage as many people as possible to utilize
this service, whether they doctor on the island or not, so that
we can retain the extra service. As you know it is a case of use
it or lose it!
Special thanks go to Dr. Losier and Sue Atha for
collecting statistics and lobbying for these additional hours.
We are continuing our quest for additional adult
counseling services, and this is looking more promising, so watch
this space for more news in the coming months. Sincere thanks
go to Nancy Rainsford, Sue Miyazaki and Alfatec International
for their generous donations to M.I.H.C.A. We are truly grateful.
Have a safe and healthy summer.
Cilla Brooke.
Chair, M.I.C.H.A.
July 2008
Dear Fellow Islanders,
I expect, by now, each islander has read over our
Report to the Community on our three to five year plan,
mailed last month. All your questions regarding what we have been
up to and what we hope to achieve should have been answered in
the report. Should you have any further questions regarding the
material contained in the report, don't hesitate to contact any
Board member.
We could not operate the clinic without the generous
contributions of islanders, on and off.
Thanks go out to Pamela Stanton, Frank and Pam Birch,
Ann and Doug LaPaire, Mitsue Saito, Sue Miyazaki, and the United
Way of Calgary. A special thanks to Stuart at Tru Value and his
Community Spirit Board, and to those who dedicate their 1% to
the Health Centre.
We now have a membership of 150. In order to save
on postage, newly paid members can pick up their membership cards
at Gulfport Realty (formerly Sussex) during regular business hours.
In the fall, we are planning a series of health-related
programs.
Have a healthy summer,
Pat Gasston
June 2008
Dear Fellow Islanders,
This is going to be a somewhat longer note than usual as there
is much to tell you.
At our AGM on April 26th we said goodbye to longstanding chair
Dennis Watts and also Grant Brownlee, Myra Clarke and Ed McKenzie.
We all owe these four and the remaining members of this board
a huge amount of gratitude for the stellar work they have done
in the past few years particularly in the realignment of this
association from being mainly a landlord to becoming a voice in
the delivery of health care services on the island. Through their
work with the health care survey and the compilation of its results
they have created a base on which to build a strategic plan that
will direct our activities in the coming years.
Members of the board are now Chair, Cilla Brooke, Vice Chair,
Jessica Easton, Secretary, Sue Atha, Treasurer, Neil Howard and
members at large, Carole Peacock, Carol Munro, Dunella Pedersen,
Katja Korinth, Pat Gasston. Sue and Pat are our liaison members
with the Southern Gulf Islands Advisory Committee and Dunella
is in charge of the rentals of the downstairs rooms in the Health
Centre which are available to all islanders at a nominal charge.
Our meetings will continue to be held on the third Thursday of
every month at 1:30pm in the downstairs room of the Health Centre
and all interested persons are very welcome to attend.
I am delighted to tell you that we now have a membership of over
129 souls which is a healthy 10% of our population. Thank you
to all who felt it was important to support us and we hope that
others who use the health care services on the island and wish
to see them develop will join us in the future.
Another big thank you goes to those of you who have so generously
donated to the association in the past few months, Frank and Pamela
Birch, Jean and Claudine Bore, Shirley Heslip, Ed and Dorothy
Hunter, Doug and Ann Lapaire, Jim and Elaine Marlon-Lambert, Moira
McCulloch, Renate Morell and Lorne Yeudall, and Ed and Ann Wright
and to all those anonymous donors who leave their contributions
in the donor box at the Health Centre. As you know we depend on
donations for our funding and we are truly grateful for the help
that you so generously give.
Finally (do I hear a sigh of relief?) just want to let you know
that a copy of our Strategic Plan brochure will be mailed to each
householder in the very near future, so that you can all see where
we are going and hopefully stay with us while we get there.
Stay well,
Cilla Brooke, Chair.
May 2008
AGM
Chair's Report
March 2008
Update on Health Centre Association Strategic Planning
As most of you probably know, management of the Health Centre
was taken over by the MIID early in 2007. Consequently, our Board
decided that it was time to re-visit our mandate. We set ourselves
the task of finding out what role you, the citizens of Mayne Island
want us to play and with that in mind, we conducted the Mayne
Island Health Survey. The response to the survey was significant
and the results were posted on the Mayne Island website in October.
Our next step was to bring the Board together with local health
professionals and interested community members for an “Appreciative
Inquiry” where we looked at the results of the survey and
discussed how we can build on the strengths of our existing health
system. That work informed a subsequent Board meeting where we
created new Mission, Vision and Guiding principles statements
to guide for our future work. These will be brought forward to
our annual meeting for approval by our membership:
Mission: The Mayne Island Health Centre Association (MICHA) promotes
and supports full community engagement in improving the health
and well-being of all Mayne Islanders.
Vision: We envision a future where the community:
- Shares responsibility for supporting and investing in the
health of all islanders
- Ensures that all citizens have access to the necessary resources,
skills, information and services to meet their physical, emotional
and spiritual needs.
Guiding Principles:
- Strength based – building on community assets and capacity
- Collaborative
- Inclusive
- Respectful
- Community based/driven
The final step in our planning process will be to create our
action plan for the next 2-3 years. As a Board, we will be discussing
what we can do to further some goals set at the Appreciative Inquiry
as well as how we might address some of the other issues identified
through the survey. Stay tuned – and if you want to become
involved in helping to achieve the new MIHCA vision, please contact
any member of the Board.
Yours in Good Health
Dennis Watts
February 2008
The Health Board would like to thank, Allan and
Eleanor Evans and Sally Stevens for their generous donations to
the Health Center. Also we would like to thank Lise McLeod and
the Community Center for the generous support they gave us for
our December luncheon. After considering the outcomes of the Health
Survey, we held a day-long planning meeting with representation
from health care providers and associated groups. The planning
group looked at how we could build on the strengths of our existing
systems. At the next Health Association meeting, we will be looking
at the results of this day and using these to decide upon on our
future direction. Watch this space for updates.
Yours in Good Health.
Dennis Watts
November 2007
Dear Fellow Islanders.
On behalf of Dr. Losier, and Nurse Michele, the Health Board
would like to thank Mr. & Mrs. J. Bore for their generous
donation. We would also like to thank all those anonymous donors
who put their donations in to the donation box at the clinic as
well.
I am sure we have all heard of patients who were discharged from
a hospital only to discover that they have no means of getting
home, maybe they missed the last sailing home, this sort of thing
happens every where in the province, and they do not have any
means of getting a ride to accommodation that may be close by,
or have the means to pay for a room and a meal, while they wait
out the night to get back home. While we cannot help everyone
in province who has had this happen to him or her, we can help
our fellow citizen’s here on Mayne, should it happen to
him or her.
With this in mind, The Health Board, along with in put from Dr.
Losier, have developed an Emergency Patient Travel Kit that will
be given to the patient when they are transferred off the island
to the hospital. The kit will have a list of places to stay, a
phone card to make phone calls and some money to pay for food
and over night accommodation, should the need arise. I would like
to Thank Sue Atha and Myra Clarke for their time and effort at
putting this new Emergency Patient Travel Kit together, as well
as the Ambulance Staff and First Responders for their support
of this Health Board initiative. Well done Sue and Myra.
If you are a Registered Nurse who has recently moved to Mayne
Island but would still like to keep your skills up while living
here on Mayne, but only on a Part-time basis, VIHA has placed
help wanted advertisement on page 8 of the Oct 18th issue of the
Island Tides. If you would like to know more about this part time
position here on Mayne you can contact VIHA through their website
at www.viha.ca
and quote reference #1765/VI
Yours in good health.
Dennis Watts
October 2007
Fellow Islanders,
On behalf of Dr. Losier, Nurse Michele, the Health
Board would like to thank St. Mary Magdalene Church for the generous
donation. We would also like to thank those anonymous donors who
put donations in to the donation box at the clinic.
The Health Survey has taken longer than we had anticipated,
what with summer holidays etc. The Board is now back to full strength,
and we have now turned our entire attention to the analyzing results
from all 45 pages. Please watch this space for further up dates.
I would like mention that the meetings are open
to the general public to attend. We meet the third Thursday of
the month at 1:30 pm in the Community Room at the Health Centre.
Please feel free to attend.
Yours in good health.
Dennis Watts
July 2007
On Behalf of Dr. Losier and Nurse Michele, the Health
Board would like to thank Betty Taylor and Family for the new
Bench and Picnic Table, now at the Health Centre, in Memory of
Ray. We would also like to Thank the Hobson Family for their generous
donation to the Health Centre.
Yours in good health
Dennis Watts,Chair
June 2007
The Health Centre Association AGM of April 28th.
, Have elected three new board members. We welcome: Sue Atha,
Pat Gasston and Ed. MacKenzie. The Board members for the year
2006-07 are. Chair; Dennis Watts, Secretary; Carol Munro, Treasure;
Neil Howard, Southern Gulf Island Community Health Assoc. (SGIHA)
Rep’s: Sue Atha and Grant Brownlee, and Directors at large:,
Myra Clark, Pat Gasston and Ed MacKenzie
The Board would also like to thank Jessica Easton,
Jeannine Merinuk and Cliff Mawson for their active participation
and contributions to meetings as past Directors.
The Health Centre Survey’s are now in, all 453 of them,
Thank You to everyone who took the time to fill this form out,
and for sending it in. We are now in the process of crunching
the numbers, and we are looking forward to sharing the results
with you. We hope to have the results for you in time for the
next MIHCA NOTES in July.
I would also like to remind you that the meetings
are open to the general public to attend. We meet the third Thursday
of the month at 1:30 pm in the Community Room at the Health Centre.
Please feel free to attend.
Yours in good health.
Dennis Watts
May 2007
The Board would like to thank all you folks who
have taken the time to fill in our health Care Survey, every the
on line survey has been used much more than we tough it would.
To date we have had an excellent response from all islanders,
both full time and part time. If you have not as yet filling in
the survey, we would ask if you could do so at your earliest opportunity
please. We are looking forward to tabulating the results and sharing
them you as soon as we have analyzed the data, so “WATCH
THIS SPACE” fro the results.
On behalf of the Board, Dr. Losier and Nurse Michele,
we would like to thank Jean & Claudine Bore for their generous
donation to the Health Centre.
Yours In Good Health
Dennis Watts, Chair
April 2007
Dear Fellow Islanders,
The Health Board would like to give you advanced
noticed of our up coming AGM to be held Saturday, 28th April at
the Health Centre, please watch for the official notice in the
April issue of the Mayneliner, or our web link at the Mayne Island
web site. If you have had medical treatment at the centre this
past year, then perhaps you would also consider becoming a member
of the Association at the AGM, it only costs $5.00 to join, or
you might even like to join the Board and help those of us on
the health board to become stronger advocates for our health care
services here on Mayne.
I would like to ask you to watch out for the Health
Survey that will soon be coming to your mailbox, and if you have
any questions, any member of the board, would be more than happy
to discuss them with you.
Yours in good health Dennis Watts, Chair
March 2007
On Behalf of the Board of the Mayne Island Health Centre Association
(MIHCA), I would like to inform you that you will now be able
to view the Medical Office and Call Schedule as posted on a monthly
basis in the Mayneliner, ON LINE at Mayneisland.com and then follow
the links to Mayne Island Health Centre Association or MICHA NOTES.
The Board would also like to thank :
Carol Thompson, Susan Michell, H & M Sito and Pilaster Holdings
for their generous donations to the Health Centre
YOURS IN GOOD HEALTH, Dennis Watts
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