Purchase of an automated hematology slide-maker/stainer
Purchase of an automated hematology slide-maker/stainer
This machine can automatically colour blood samples for analysis, standardize the process, reduce human error and improve result quality.
Your help is essential to allow us to keep improving health and social services in the Outaouais. We rely on your continued support to deliver on our commitments of over $4,000,000 in investment projects with the CISSS de l’Outaouais.
Here is a concrete example of the many projects for which we need your help and which will have a concrete impact on both health workers and patients.
The CISSS de l’Outaouais’s establishments urgently require several small pieces of equipment that are essential to the performance of recurring tasks carried out by care professionals. Due to current budget restraints, many pieces of equipment have to be shared between departments. This inevitably reduces efficiency as it requires staff to travel other floors to use the equipment, resulting in less time spent with patients.
To ensure smoother service delivery, more efficient use of workers’ time and higher-quality care for users, an inventory of the needs for small essential equipment was carried out for each facility.
Hospitals: $200,150 > Learn more
CHSLD nursing homes: $147,800 > Learn more
Pierre-Janet Mental Health Hospital: $21,600 > Learn more
La RessourSe Physical Rehabilitation Centre: $5,160 > Learn more
This project highlights just one of the many needs at the CISSS de l’Outaouais. These projects could not go forward without your vital support. The contribution you make today will help health care professionals by providing them with better working tools.
I’m not surprised that the bill for small equipment needs in the CHSLD nursing homes goes as high as $150,000. We’ve been short of equipment for a long time; we feel like we’re always chasing after this or that. In layman’s terms, it’s as if an office worker didn’t have an eraser and had to go and borrow one from a colleague two floors down every time they needed it. Nobody would consider these working conditions to be normal, yet that’s exactly what we have to go through every day! Fortunately our patients are understanding, they know we’re doing our best and they appreciate it.
– Nadia Couillard, Nurse
We take care of multiple patients at a time and if we have to go back and forth because some of the equipment we need is unavailable, it’s a lot to deal with and it adds to our mental load. Not having all the tools at our disposal is a nuisance. When we do our patient assessment, we have to take their temperature and we need that information immediately. We don’t have time to start running around the floors after a thermometer. We would be much more efficient with all the necessary equipment within reach. At the beginning of the crisis last year, we had to take the temperature of each resident every day, but we only had a single forehead thermometer for two whole floors. (…) It’s heartwarming to see people donating generously, because it makes us feel supported by the population.
– Marika Bourassa Choquette, Nurse
Here we have one glucose meter for three floors. I’ve sometimes had to tell my colleagues that we can’t check a patient’s blood sugar level because we can’t find the meter, or because it’s being used elsewhere and by the time it’s available it’s too late, the patient has already eaten. We’re constantly being bothered to see who has the glucose meter. Sometimes it even causes squabbles among staff. We blame each other for taking the equipment somewhere and forgetting to bring it back.
– Laurentine Sikuzani, Nurse
Faced with this challenge, the laboratory management team at CISSS de l’Outaouais has devised a pioneering solution: a complete cervical cancer screening system using liquid-based Pap tests (ThinPrep).
The CISSS de l’Outaouais’s establishments urgently require several small pieces of equipment that are essential to the performance of recurring tasks carried out by care professionals
Interior design that feels like home can help create a stimulating and pleasant living environment and relieve loneliness by encouraging users to gather in common areas.
In tomosynthesis, a mobile X-ray tube is used to take a series of pictures and generate a three-dimensional image of the mammary gland.
The Gatineau Health Foundation is also doing its share to support a number of programs tailored to the diverse needs of young people in rehabilitation centres or foster families, as well as other children requiring a follow-up by the Youth Protection Branch.
For these young people with needs, the Freeman Youth Rehabilitation Centre is a full-fledged living environment – that is why the Centre’s team of specialists, through various intervention strategies, tries to normalize their daily lives there.
The acquisition of three electric exercise pedals for the Outaouais’s CHSLD nursing homes will provide staff with an additional tool to strengthen the users’ leg muscles and improve their mobility.
Currently, these four CHSLDs are not equipped to computerize the requests sent to the laboratory.
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