Royal Review May 29 2015 - Royal Victoria Regional Health

Royal Review
May 29, 2015
Remembering ‘Black Friday’:
30 years later
It’s a bird! It’s a plane!
No, it’s...
TEAM RVH
Appreciation Days
From June 9–11 will celebrate our favourite
superheroes – YOU – during
the 2015 TEAM RVH Appreciation Days.
For this year’s department
spirit award, staff are encouraged to decorate or
dress up a superhero in their
department or unit.
June 9
 Morning greeting
 Kick-off event
 Games/activities
 Kool FM photo booth
 Superhero dinner for
evening staff
June 10
 Superhero luncheon
 Games/activities
 Superhero dinner for
night staff
June 11
 Morning greeting
 Games/activities
More details coming soon!
Barrie Examiner
If you lived in Barrie on May 31, 1985 you
remember the day like it was yesterday. A
devastating tornado—an F4 with winds of up
to 400 km per hour tore through the city killing eight people, injuring 155 others and destroying 300 homes and businesses.
As the Barrie Examiner reported: “The Barrie tornado crossed Crawford Street, blowing
cars hundreds of metres into the bush and
stomping down houses. Twelve factories
were destroyed and another four just downwind were very heavily damaged.
The tornado followed an eastward track,
crossing Highway 400 ripping through the
Barrie Raceway, tearing down outbuildings
and making a mess of a huge parking lot. It
then raged into the Allandale residential area, heading east destroying warehouses
near Highway 11 and crossing Yonge Street
at Minet's Point Road. Damage at the Brentwood Marina was severe. Thirty-five boats
disappeared, cement anchors embedded in
the bottom of the lake were gone. The tornado then skipped over Kempenfelt Bay and
disappeared. Debris from Barrie was discovered 5 km out into Lake Simcoe.”
According to a paper written by Dr. Brian
Morris and Dr. Tom Armstrong for the Canadian Medical Association Journal, “It had
been a normal day at the hospital when the
power failed at about 4:30 pm. There were
just a few physicians in the hospital at 5:05
pm when an injured man walked into the
Emergency department and announced, “A
tornado has flattened Allandale”.
The paper went on to describe how, “Staff
and physicians arrived without being notified
because they had seen the tornado or heard
the sirens. Within an hour 20 physicians and
30 nurses were working feverishly. Triage
was performed in the Emergency department entrance where four teams cared for
the injured. The less seriously injured patients were sent to the cafeteria where most
of the suturing was performed. A mobile triage unit went to the most devastated area to
treat patients at the disaster site. Within five
hours, RVH cared for 155 tornado victims,
including 16 cases of multiple trauma.”
Despite having never encountered a disaster of this magnitude, the team’s response
was outstanding. This is due, in part, to the
new Disaster Plan and comprehensive training RVH had conducted the previous year
when Barrie hosted a large hot air balloon
festival and Pope John Paul II visited Midland.
We learned a lot from the tornado and today RVH has a variety of well-planned and
practiced Emergency Plans that have prepared us for any kind of disaster.
The Barrie tornado remains one of the
worst tornados to ever hit Ontario. In its
deadly wake, parts of Barrie looked like a
war zone and residents called that fateful
day ‘Black Friday’. As always, TEAM RVH
responded with outstanding skill, dedication
and compassion.
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May 29, 2015
Avoiding tragedy: How the Young
family came within inches of losing a child
On May 31, 1985 Susan Young, her husband and her two young
kids were driving on highway 400 when a wall of debris hit their
car and a light standard toppled onto it. They were very lucky to
have survived. One daughter, Caitlin, was at RVH in traction for
five weeks with a broken leg.
Susan Young, is very grateful for the care her family received
at RVH.
“If I could say one thing to RVH staff, it would be a heartfelt
and humble thank you for their loving care and concern for our
little girl,” says Young. “It was a very long time for Caitlin to be
away from us but, from the outset, we were secure in the
knowledge that she was in caring and competent hands. We
have never forgotten
Barrie Examiner
them.”
Susan will share her
Ontario Premier Frank Miller and Housing Minister Dennis Timbrell.
story at the Barrie Tornado Remembered event
on May 31 from 7 to 9:15
p.m. at the Mady Centre
for the Performing Arts.
The event is nearly sold
out, however, some last
minute tickets may be
available. For more details, visit
www.eventbrite.ca.
Barrie Examiner
(Photo, right): Some of the
staff entrusted to Caitlin’s
care gathered around her
wheelchair to celebrate her
discharge.
Where were you on May 31,
With information supplied by:
Judith Banville—Word Portraits
705-790-6490
judith@wordportraits.ca
1985?
TEAM RVH recalls where they were and what they were doing on that fateful day
Cindy Perry RN, Occupational Health
and Safety
I drove through the worst area of destruction with my six year old just minutes before the tornado went through. We saw a
canoe flying in the air and several treeblocked roadways. Some houses had
roofs missing. People were walking
around disoriented and some were bleeding. I volunteered at RVH for the remainder of the evening, assisting with discharges on our inpatient unit to make
room for potential admissions. I remember how well we all worked together and
was so thankful there were not more fatalities!
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Frances (Frannie) Poole, RN, Emergency Department
Upon hearing about the tornado I
jumped in my car and headed with all the
bandages I could find, stethoscope on
the dash, to the St. John's Command
Centre, volunteering overnight. The army
moved in to help from Base Borden. All
together it was an amazing experience
of teamwork amidst such tragedy, suffering and loss. I still have tornado nightmares and am very watchful of the skies
during unsettled summer weather.
Cheers to the folks of Barrie who lost so
much, survived and moved forward.
Cheers to TEAM RVH!
Kim Selkirk, RN, Cardiac Care Unit
For me, it's one of those dates like the
day JFK was killed, for my parents, or
9/11 for our generation. I recall that
suddenly the wind really picked up and
the sky turned an eerie green/black and
yet it was oddly bright like something
was reflecting light. I remember seeing
a huge wave of rolling blackness coming through the field and forest behind
our house. The roof lifted off the house
across the road in one piece and started spinning until it broke into many
pieces. The very specific sounds, sights
and smells have stayed with me since.
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Where were you on May 31, 1985?
TEAM RVH recalls where they were and what they were doing on that fateful day
Dr. Rob El-Maraghi
I was only 11 but I remember exactly
where I was! It was at my mom’s (Dr.
Laura Crook) and we were getting
ready for her birthday party when the
sky turned green! Her party was a
bust, as she and all of her guests
were helping out in RVH’s ED!
Dr. Brian Morris
Barrie Raceway
I got a call at home when the tornado
hit. I ended up working in the cafeteria,
by portable lights, sewing up cuts all
evening. Dr. Tom Armstrong and I published a scientific paper in the Canadian
Medical Association Journal about a
year later, entitled "Medical response to Dr. Bryn Pressnail and John Dubroy were
a natural disaster: the Barrie Tornado". recently reunited for a CTV Barrie news
Anna Moller—NP, Geriatrics
There were about 11 of us nurses and
doctors who escorted patients to Toronto that night. We were all transported back to Barrie in an ambulance bus
through the area in the city that had
been devastated by the tornado. It
was quite eerie and dark, as there
were no city lights. On one side of the
street a home would be destroyed and
on the other side, a home would still
be standing. When we arrived back at
the hospital, the ED was stripped of
supplies—cupboard doors were open
and shelves were empty. We spent
the rest of the night comforting folks in
shock, treating people with chest pain,
giving tetanus shots and treating those
with less serious wounds.
story, 30 years after Pressnail helped treat
John’s devastating injuries. Dubroy was
thrown from his vehicle during the tornado
and credits Team RVH for his miraculous,
albeit slow, recovery.
Dr. Bryn Pressnail
I reported to the ED and there were
many, many casualties. I was assigned to care for an unconscious
young man (John Dubroy, above) with
a head injury and multiple other injuries. We stabilized him and transported him to Toronto for neurosurgery.
The entire hospital community was
present, caring for injured people until
the emergency situation was declared
over at about 11 p.m. The most striking memory is that there were many
injured and many caregivers, but everything was managed quickly and efficiently. I was extremely impressed
with this disaster management.
Kay Morrison—RN, Regional Stroke Education Coordinator
At that time, I was Nursing Director of the
Special Care Services which included the
Emerg, Critical Care, Medicine, Psychiatry
and Outpatient Services. I had just left
work when all the lights went out and the
sky became very black-green with high
winds. I then immediately came back to
the hospital. I just knew I needed to be
there. My most profound recall was the
incredible silence as we triaged patients.
Even extremely injured patients waited
silently for their treatment—they did not
scream. Some were so covered in mud we
could hardly recognize them. Some
moaned quietly, but most were in shock, I
approached one man who was sitting with
a large bandage on his knee. I asked him
what his injury was and he held up his partially severed arm; in shock, silent, making
no comment.
One to two hours later we started to see
the families or friends that were away from
home at the time of the tornado. Many
were hysterical and in shock, looking for
family. The noise level in the ED now became overwhelming with people screaming, crying and hyperventilating. Breathing
in paper bags was now a key part of our
management.
We had a very small team, but a more
effective, efficient, professional and dedicated team has never existed. We ran like
a well-rehearsed machine, reminding me
of a MASH unit on TV—a truly high functioning inter-professional team, knowing
intrinsically what to do next. Sadly we
have lost many of the silent heroes of that
day -- Dr. Duncan Patterson, Dr. Terry
Porter, Dr. Amir Nazerali, Dr. Homa Khonsari and many others who have retired—
but are not forgotten by those who were
there and lived the moments with them.
Dr. Bob Lewis-Watts
I was asked to go into the “trauma/resuscitation room” to help out. On the table
was a young woman obviously the victim of some major trauma. As a group of us
worked feverishly to assess / intubate, establish IV access and try to resuscitate
her the word came that she’d been in a car on the 400 that had been directly hit. Meanwhile every time the doors opened we
could hear the urgent calls for other staff to go to help other severely injured in the other three treatment rooms. I remember
being close to tears. She just looked so young, innocent and helpless lying there on the table. The cafeteria had been rapidly
transformed into a giant assessment and treatment area for less severe injuries. The tables were now covered in sheets and a
steady stream of patients were brought in, many cut and bleeding from the flying projectiles. Despite the huge volume of patients I remember remarkable cooperation amongst all the hospital staff. There seemed to be a tremendous amount of focused
but selfless energy throughout. I finished the evening suturing I don’t know how many patients. It was during this time that they
shared their harrowing experiences often with remarkable tales of escape from what seemed to them to be certain death. By
the time I got home I was both wired and exhausted and was filled with feelings of sadness but also gratitude that out of the
devastation the death toll hadn’t been three or four times greater.
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Where were you on May 31, 1985?
TEAM RVH recalls where they were and what they were doing on that fateful day
Lynne Penton—RN, Emergency department
I was working in the Critical Care Unit and it went very dark. The back-up generator kicked in and we were paged to bring
all spare stretchers to the ED, where ambulances were lined up at the door. People were sitting in the hall covered in mud and
blood and they were so dazed they couldn’t find any words to tell us what had happened. No phones were working and in
those days there were no cell phones, so none of us knew what had just happened. I recall starting to cry because I had no
idea what we were seeing. I went out (to the site of the disaster) in the first ambulance with a doctor and R/T Kim Downey to
see if there was anyone buried in the rubble. Kim asked us to hold hands and pray that we not find anyone dead. We were silenced by seeing the racetrack all blown away and buildings collapsed and in shreds. I remember how small RVH was then
and how much we knew each other and supported each other and how the community of Barrie all pitched in to help us.
Mark Moreau—RN, 4GC
This was an emergency situation and I knew they would
need as many staff as possible to be on hand for whatever injuries there might be, so I
wasn’t going to wait to be
called to work. I ended up
doing a one-to-one care on a
patient who had sustained a
head injury in the tornado.
After viewing the destruction
first-hand over the next few
days, I realized it was remarkable that more people
weren’t more seriously injured or killed. It was great to
see how well the health care
team at RVH pulled together
in this crisis. It made me feel
so proud to have chosen the
nursing profession and thirty
years later, I am still proud to
be an RN at RVH.
Dr. Mitch Whyne
I had only worked at RVH for a few months
and was driving up Highway 400. I was listening to music on my 8- track player, so not
listening to the news. All of a sudden traffic
was backed up and as I approached Barrie,
vehicles and debris was strewn across the
highway. I worked with police to weave my
way through the mess to the hospital and
then spent the night in the cafeteria triaging
and treating patients. It was quite a night.
RVH OR (top) and Emergency triage/registration
Sharon Partridge—Retired
Chief Nursing Officer
As Head Nurse of the newlyopened Surgical Day Care
Unit (SDC), I had just gotten
home when I got a call that a
tornado had hit Barrie. Immediately I headed back to the
hospital. As the Emergency
department managed the multiple trauma victims, SDC became a staging area for stabilization and further diagnostic
testing of patients. At one
point I walked out to the
Emergency entrance and all I
could see was a sea of people on foot, in cars, police, fire
and ambulances filling the
streets. It was not until the
disaster plan was called off
later in the evening and communications in the city were
restored that we were able to
comprehend the full scope of
the disaster.
David Rogler—Logistics Attendant
I heard on the car radio a tornado had hit the Barrie area! I had a feeling RVH
would need my help so I headed back there as soon as I could. I ended up
helping in the cafeteria as patients were being treated there because the ED
was so busy. Then I monitored the main entrance because we had no hospital security back then. It was tough as people came to me who were frightened and concerned about their missing family members and friends. They
wanted to enter the hospital to look for them. I still remember to this day how
so many staff members pitched in and did whatever they could during those
critical hours. There were also many who came back to RVH after having
worked all day because they cared.
Simone English—Mental Health
I was seven-and-a-half months pregnant and on my dinner break when the announcement was made recalling us to our units.
I took a stretcher to the emergency department and when I rounded the corner to the ED, it felt like another world. Although it
appeared chaotic to me, I quickly realized that it was organized chaos. It felt surreal and I thought someone might tell me it
was just a drill. All hands were on deck and I was impressed with the nurses and doctors who seemed to take it in stride, although it was a faster pace.
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Where were you on May 31, 1985?
TEAM RVH recalls where they were and what they were doing on that fateful day
Suzanne Legue—Chief Communications Officer
I worked as a reporter at CKVR Television at the time, just up the hill from the
worst of the disaster scene, so I viewed
RVH’s response from a different lens. I
remember Dr. Tom Armstrong talking
about the incredible focus that kicked in
as the injured started streaming into the
Emergency Department. Everyone juggled priorities, triaged patients on the fly
and just did what needed to be done.
The response by RVH, other first responders, the military, and the community at large was outstanding during, what
remains, one of Canada’s worst natural
disasters.
Dr. Wes Cutbush
This day is burned into my
memory. I received a call that a
tornado had ripped through our
neighbourhood, doing significant
damage, including a gas leak. I
drove as far as I could and ran
the rest of the way home. Sadly
on the way I came across a fatality, a young boy who had been
swept off his bicycle and into a
tree. I pronounced death, and
continued to my neighbourhood.
Nothing was desperate, so I was
able to catch a ride on an ambulance back to RVH. There, along
with others, tended to all manner
of injuries in the ER. Every patient had a harrowing tale of
what had happened. I remain
amazed that there were not
more fatalities.
Karen Winter—RN, Manager, Pre and
Post Surgery, and ACT, Surgery Program
I remember that shift as if it was yesterday. I was at home and was called into
work as a part of the disaster response.
I was a casual RN in the Critical Care
unit and was sent to ED to help with the
critically ill patients coming in. I worked
alongside Dr. Pressnail to care for a critically ill gentleman until he was transferred to Toronto. In the middle of transporting this gentleman to the CCU my
manager at the time Sue offered me my
full time job. I accepted and I have
worked full time at RVH ever since that
day.
Donna Danyluk—Corporate Communications Representative
At the time I was just starting my career
as a reporter-photographer with the
Barrie Examiner. I remember the weird
green colour of the sky as I drove to
work. As a junior reporter I was not assigned to photograph the carnage left
by the tornado, but rather to process
the film brought back to the newsroom.
My view of the disaster came through
film processed in a tiny dark room. As
each image appeared in the chemical
tray I saw more and more the destruction and death the tornado had left behind. It was hard to believe the pictures
I was seeing were taken in my own city.
Barrie Raceway
Glenridge Road, Allandate
Rosie Sage, Staffing Analyst,
Human Resources
That night is still clear as can be
in my mind – at home seeing a
bolt of lightning that seemed to go
from the top of the sky and get
buried in the earth; how the sirens made it sound like a war
zone; being so happy that my son
was safe and sound; the chaos;
and the way everyone worked
together to get through the night.
On that night some staff opted to
work without pay and the ones
who were paid gladly donated
that money to the Red Cross because we felt so blessed to have
come through that night with limited damage. We all knew someone who was personally affected
by that day and I think most of us
watch the skies closely when that
hot and humid weather begins.
Judy Klementti, OR Clerk
I was just cleaning up in the operating room and they called for all stretchers to Emerg. At first I thought this was a mock disaster exercise. I worked outside Emerg directing traffic as patients began to arrive but because of poor communication with
the disaster site, I went with Dr. Green and several others to Allandale to assess the situation and see if we would be receiving many more patients. A sad part to the story was that my 12 year-old son’s best friend was killed in the tornado. I still
have the eulogy that he wrote for the funeral. Many talked about the damage to homes and businesses that the tornado
caused, but that could all be repaired.
Angie Clark—Physiotherapist
I was 9 years old and at home with my family during the storm. My mom, who was -- and still is -- a nurse at RVH was called
into work. We drove her there and I remember the ER was overflowing with injured people arriving by ambulance, cars, &
even the back of pick-up trucks. I remember feeling proud that my Mom was a nurse and could help these people. Later,
some kids, including a friend, never returned to school. I learned that her brother and mom were killed and she was at Sick
Kids with a head injury. I never saw her again. For a 9 year old kid, it made a permanent impression.
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A tale from the centre of the storm
For Allison Ethier, Clerical Analyst with the Simcoe Muskoka
Regional Cancer Program, the scariest thing she recalls
about the 1985 tornado was the danger her two daughters,
Katie and Jaclyn, faced as their car was tossed into the air
on Springhome Road in Allandale. In her detailed telling of
the event, Allison recalls her fear and reaction when she
realized that she and her family were in the middle of the
tornado. Here is an chilling excerpt from her account of that
horrific afternoon, written one week later.
“I realized that the big cloud was coming directly down the
street. My first reaction was to pull off the street, but before I
could turn off the ignition, things started hitting my car. My
first thought was to get the kids out of the car and into a
house, but I never had time. The windows started bursting, I
got my seatbelt off and reached behind to protect Jaclyn’s
face from flying glass and yelled at Katie to bury her face in
her lap. The whole car was shaking, trees and parts of houses were coming toward us. The next thing I know the car
was in the air. I couldn’t tell you how far we went. Katie was
screaming, “Mommy, what is it? Help me!” The car landed
on its roof. I was laying flat on my back looking up at both
girls. They were both suspended in the air by their seatbelts—the wind was so strong I thought they would be
ripped out of their seats. It was like somebody was yanking
their hair, trying to suck them away from me. Jaclyn’s twoyear-old eyes held such a fearful look and her little arms and
legs weren’t hers—someone else or something else had
control of them.”
Allison and her daughters crawled out the back window of their car to
escape once the tornado passed. Residents on the street rushed out of
their houses to check on their injuries. They were then picked up by an
ambulance
and taken to
RVH to be
treated.
(Bottom, left)
Allison and
her family
visited her
destroyed car
the next day
after it had
been towed
from the
wreckage.
IGNITE Research Conference:
Call for submissions
Presentation abstract submissions are now being accepted for consideration at the RVH Research Conference 2015.
DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: THURSDAY, JULY 30, 2015
SUBMISSIONS: Abstract must be submitted via email to
research@rvh.on.ca.
All abstracts should follow the following guidelines/format:
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Preference – Oral or Poster Presentation
Title of the abstract (must be in CAPITAL LETTERS, and bolded, with no abbreviations
(max 125 characters including spaces)
Names of authors with credentials (maximum 3 credentials or degrees)
Presenter(s) indicated by UNDERLINING the name(s)
E-mail address of the primary presenter which will be used for all communications.
Abstract must be single spaced, Arial Font, size 11 and be a maximum of 350 words
Abstract must be formatted as follows - TITLE, Authors, Affiliation(s), Introduction, Rationale/Objectives, Methods, Results, Conclusions (bold these subtitles)
Abstracts will not be edited and will be reproduced in the exact form submitted in the abstract booklet to be distributed at
the conference. Please proofread your abstract carefully because once submitted, it cannot be revised.
For more information and details about abstract formats, please contact Susan Devine at ext. 41350 or devines@rvh.on.ca
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Member of RVH family to bear Pan Am torch
Barrie's Meghan Carlisle is going to be in good company when the Pan Am Games Torch Relay passes through the city in
June. The 24-year-old daughter of RVH’s Susan Carlisle, will be the City of Barrie’s community torchbearer on June 10, joining approximately 3,000 torchbearers who will complete, on average, a 200-metre segment during the 41-day journey that
culminates with the July 10 opening ceremonies in Toronto. Pan Am Games officials say she was selected because she embodies the core characteristics of the relay: community, celebration, participation and pride.
"Meghan has demonstrated an outstanding dedication to community service and sport," officials said in a media release.
And that's no exaggeration. Carlisle received the Lieutenant Governor award for outstanding community service — she
completed 500 hours of community service while in high school compared to most students who squeak by with 40 — and for
the past seven years, she has volunteered as a coach with the Barrie Special Olympics swim team, coached the North Bay
Special Olympics team and instructed the Nippissing Association of Disabled Youth in skiing. She has also volunteered at
summer camps for children living with childhood cancers and works with children at an after-school program in Barrie.
“I am honoured to represent the City of Barrie in the 2015 Pam Am Games
Torch Relay,” says Meghan. “I take pride in being a role model for the young people I teach, so being a torchbearer will be a proud moment for all of us. I'm excited. It's going to be a very rewarding experience. I'm really looking forward to it
and meeting the other torchbearers and other people involved with the Pan Am
Games."
Carlisle said one thing stands out in her life.
"I love helping people. You improve their quality of life," she said. "I've also
helped out in numerous emergency situations — car crashes — I've happened to
come across. If something like that ever happened to me, I'd like someone to help
me."Carlisle was selected by the city’s torch-relay committee from a number of
qualified applications that were submitted to the city late last year.
The torch will be carried by more than 60 modes of transportation which will
take it more than 5,000 kilometres on the road and 15,000 kilometres by air.
Susan Carlisle (left) with Meghan
Within the Human Resources department,
some role re-alignments
are currently taking place.
Kayla MacDonald has
taken on a combined HR
Consultant/HR Analyst
role. Laurie Johnson, who has transitioned to a permanent role as an HR
Analyst, will cover Kayla MacDonald’s
maternity leave of absence until June
2016. Courtney Brown began an
interim role as HR Analyst in May
2015, and Jamie Borland is providing
interim coverage in the Administrative
Assistant role.
From left: Kayla, Courtney, Jamie and
Laurie
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Linda Shanks is retiring after 28
years at RVH. Linda, who currently
works as a Patient Services Clerk on
the Integrated Stroke and Rehabilitation
Inpatient Unit. Linda is looking forward
to relaxing on the
beach, spending a
month in Florida during
the winter and
doing some biking.
Linda’s last day is June
20. A retirement tea for
Linda will be held on
June 11 from 3 to
4 p.m. in 4G343-45.
New # for CCOT
Mission Possible
Dress Code Corner
RVH’s valuesbased activity is
available at the
Health Library.
Every year members of TEAM RVH
should go through
the activity.
It only takes 20
minutes—so if you haven’t participated gather up some co-workers and
head to the Health Library.
Time is of the essence when you need
the assistance of the Critical Care Outreach Team (CCOT). Valuable seconds
can be lost if you are using the wrong
number to reach this life-saving team.
Effective immediately,
the CCOT team can be
reached by dialing ext.
66300. New posters
and badge cards will
be distributed to departments and staff in
the very near future.
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Foundation News
On May 20 and 21, Larche Communications’ radio stations 104.1
The Dock and KICX 106 held their annual radiothon at Riocan
Georgian Mall. This year’s event—the Radio for Cardiology Radiothon—raised more than $60,000 to help bring advanced cardiac
care to RVH. Dr. Brad Dibble (shown front), a Cardiologist and
Clinical Director of the Cardiovascular and Renal program at
RVH, stopped by the radiothon to speak with Meg Whitton of The
Dock morning show. Larche Communications has pledged to
raise $500,000 to help equip a cardiac catheterization lab as part
of the future advanced cardiac program.
Rotary Fun Run 2015
On May 27, just before TEAM RVH departed for the 2015 Rotary Fun
Run, the Staff Giving Wall was unveiled. The wall, located at the L1
staff entrance, celebrates the generous contributions of TEAM RVH,
both active and retired. The staff total for the campaign is now
$180,000—that’s 70 per cent of the staff campaign goal. It’s not too
late to contribute to the campaign—just contact the RVH Foundation.
The Barrie Half Marathon will take place June 7. For
more information or to join TEAM RVH, please visit http://
www.barriehalfmarathon.ca/ or contact the RVH Foundation. Some funds raised at the event will benefit Hearts &
Minds (advanced cardiac care).
Walk in My
Shoes
Nearly 300 members of TEAM RVH, friends and family participated in the 2015 Rotary Fun Run making RVH the winner of the corporate
challenge for the largest team. Despite some inclement weather, the team enjoyed their 5 km run/walk and 10 km run. Congratulations to
Leslie McArthur of the Pharmacy who was also a big winner—finishing first in the women’s 5 km run out of 208 runners with a time of 20:37.
Thank you to Larche Communications which provided KICX 106 and 104.1 The Dock buses to transport TEAM RVH to the waterfront.
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