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5th annual Honoured to Care Awards
From going above and beyond the call of duty, to the many little things done each and every day, the Honoured to Care Awards celebrate how our people are living our values – demonstrating respect, trust, commitment, compassion, and courage across our organization.
The 2022-2023 Honoured to Care Awards winners were selected from amongst 113 nominations received from staff, professional staff, volunteers, and community members who shared their sentiments about the outstanding people who work and provide care at Oak Valley Health.
Healthier. Together
In alignment with our Strategic Plan, we looked for new ways to let everyone catch their breath and take care of each other. A couple of these changes included the introduction of our Disconnecting from Work policy, and email tips outlining guidelines for after-hours emails to help protect a healthy work-life balance.
Forbes Canada’s Best Employers for Diversity, 2022
We’re proud to serve some of Canada’s most diverse communities. We pride ourselves as an organization with core principles of fostering a safe and inclusive environment. We are committed to moving our equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) work forward as an organization.
It’s an honour to have been recognized as one of Forbes Canada’s Best Employers for Diversity 2022. We ranked within the top 150 organizations across the country and were the only hospital in York Region to do so.
Our PEPs turned 5!
In November, we celebrated the five year anniversary of our Patient Experience Participants (PEP) program! Established in 2017, PEPs are specialized volunteers engaged throughout our organization, who contribute in a wide variety of ways, including sharing perspectives, opinions, and providing input on decisions that improve quality of care.
New therapy dog programming for staff brings out smiles – and lots of licks!
The power a therapy dog can have – not just on patients, but on our staff, as well – is remarkable. And that's why we launched a new therapy dog programming for staff this past fall.