Membership Activity- There are currently 51 members in the Lambda Chapter. This includes 2 Managers, 14 associates and 35 technicians. Membership will open again June 1st, 2017. Everyone is encouraged to join.

All members are encouraged to view their Newsletter on-line, and to visit our Web-site regularly to keep up on what other chapters are doing and to read any of the interesting articles that are archived on the website www.mdrao.ca

The MDRAO website now has an online store that offers numerous MDRAO branded items that our membership may enjoy. Happy shopping!

In January 2017, President Chris Sherlock stepped down from his position as Lambda Chapter president and Provincial Chapter representative for Communications. Our Board reached out to Luanne Sutherland, Lambda Chapter past President to search for a replacement. After emails to the membership and no takers, Luanne has agreed to step in for this year to see Lambda represented.

President & past President- Luanne Sutherland sutherll@tbh.net

Vice President /Treasurer/Secretary- Connie Johnson johnsoco@tbh.net

Lambda Event Planner for Education- Agatha Flanz flanza@tbh.net

After a bit of a late start, Lambda chapter hosted 2 meetings through OTN. We are grateful to Theta Chapter who allowed us to sit in for the Educational sessions they had planned.

February 8, 2017—Education provided via OTN by Theta chapter on Best practices in MDR followed by Lambda Chapter meeting 3 sites 5 attending.

April 12, 2017---Education provided via OTN by Theta chapter Vice President Tammy Bernardo on Best Practices with Flexible scopes followed by Lambda Chapter meeting 4 sites and 7 attending

Annual MDRAO AGM will take place by OTN Thursday May 18th, 2017 at 1700 hours.

Re-certifications---There were 12 members who successfully completed their re-certifications this year.

Medical Device Reprocessing Classroom Course-: The 2017 Course will be held May 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th 13th, 2017. There are 71 students registered at 6 sites which are Timmins, Thunder Bay, North Bay, Midland and Moose factory. Colleen Landers and Tammy Bennardo are the coordinators. The facilitators who volunteer at each site are; Jeff Phelps, Luanne Sutherland, Dianne Brazeau and Leigh Pallister.

Lambda Chapter has 15 students registered for this year’s course.

 

Special Event--Lambda Chapter members hosted a booth in front of the cafeteria at Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Center in honor of World Health Organization Sterilization Day. They provided a table with a picture board and shared information about Medical Device Reprocessing and showed pictures of staff doing various tasks in MDR. Many thanks to Agatha Flanz and Connie Johnson who manned the booth during their lunch breaks and provided information to many staff including our CEO Jean Bartkowiak.

Treasurer’s Report—

A detailed financial report has been submitted to the MDRAO on the required form.

Opening Balance for Lambda was 5807.33 Revenue received from MDRAO was 5000.00 Bank fees were 107.65

Current balance for Lambda chapter is 9344.10

Draws are underway to provide funding for up to 5 members to pay expense for the bi-annual conference in Toronto to be held Sept 10-12, 2017

Lambda Chapter Representative Board Report—

It has been a whirlwind getting back with the board as your Chapter Rep. The board has been working hard on the new work book and text for the 4th edition release and have worked hard on getting the numerous updates included.

The theme of this year’s conference is "Measuring Success and Quality". The 150thAnniversary will be celebrated as well. Members attending will be encouraged to bring red and white items to show their Canadian spirit!

I have attended two board meetings by Teleconference. I was welcomed back onto the Board and am now working on the Communications portfolio with board member Stephenie Naugler. We will work together to get the Newsletter out for July 2017.

Submitted by Lambda Executive 2016-2017

Luanne Sutherland –President

Connie Johnson- Vice President/Secretary/Treasurer