Dynamic Simulation; Mandy Furtado, Scotiabank District Vice President, South West Ontario District;
Terri Kewley, Scotiabank Branch Manager; Ann Cunningham, Scotiabank Small Business Advisor; Sherry
Coppo, Scotiabank Branch Manager; Mary-Lynne Goodman, MD Management Limited Senior Financial
Consultant; Bob Hockney, CKHAF Board Chair.
An innovative program at the Chatham-Kent Health Alliance has received a major financial boost.
Scotiabank is donating $67,000 to the CKHA Foundation over two years to support the hospital’s Dynamic Simulation program, a teaching method to allow health care professionals practice critical care scenarios and resuscitation using realistic situations and equipment.
Dynamic Simulation was founded by Dr. Shawn Segeren, an Emergency Department Physician at CKHA, in April of 2020. Dr. Segeren began by arranging a series of clinical simulation sessions focused on resuscitating patients with COVID-19.
“These inter-professional simulations have allowed our teams to work together to manage some very complex, interesting cases, which has really benefited the ED teams at both the Chatham and Wallaceburg sites,” noted Dr. Segeren. “This strong financial support from Scotiabank will allow us to offer more high-fidelity simulations, leveraging new equipment that will allow us to better serve our ED teams, other hospital departments, and our community as a whole.”
The program now offers a wide variety of critical-care simulation sessions and procedural skills days for ED Physicians, Registered Nurses, Respiratory Therapists, and other specialists at CKHA.
The partnership with Scotiabank will fund ten Dynamic Simulation sessions and two procedural skills days per year for each of the next two years.
“On behalf of Scotiabank, we are so proud to be a part of this important initiative and to support the outstanding work that Dr. Segeren’s Dynamic Simulation program is doing here at CKHA,” stated Mandy Furtado, Scotiabank District Vice President, South West Ontario District. “It is an honour to continue our strong partnership with the CKHA Foundation through this investment that will increase opportunities for health, growth, and success here in Chatham-Kent.”
