Welcome 2024,
For all of you who enjoy the winter months, I hope you all had time to enjoy the time we had as this year was not our usual winter in Ontario. Spring is right around the corner, only a few days away. This might not mean much in the reprocessing world, but it does influence our outside lives with additional daylight and warmer weather.
I wanted to share with you my focus for 2024 as I hope some of you share the same passion. In 2023, my focus was set on recognition and support for reprocessing going back to basics to support both our senior and new staff to adapt together in the workplace. We have all been through enough working with each other daily supporting our stakeholders to continue to work toward putting a dent in our provincial surgical patient backlog.
2024 will be a year for patient advocacy, and MDR plays a critical role in many was to support patient care, with proper reprocessing being completed and availability of equipment when required. Understanding there are always consistent pressures and resource constraints, we cannot forget or morals and values that we bring each day to provide quality care to the community. Being efficient does not mean cutting corners; we are such a large community externally and internally. We can work together daily and should share techniques or ideas to improve processes either within MDR or to our stakeholders. This will not just improve our daily struggles; it will empower us to be more engaged and reduce the frequency of errors.
Start planning your summer vacation now as it will come up very fast!
Thank you,
John McHardy
President, Gamma Chapter
Medical Device Reprocessing Association of Ontario
http://www.csao.net/