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CEO Empowering Transforming Strengthening Honouring End-of- Special Remarks People Care Systems Talent Life Journeys Features CEO Remarks At SE Health, our people are impacting communities every day. Working with purpose, our teams are delivering safe, holistic care, celebrating special moments in that care, and honouring the lives and stories of every individual, in the places they call home. We call this Hope and Happiness; and it’s a purpose we are committed to every day, A Year of Extraordinary regardless of the circumstances. Social Innovation When COVID-19 devastated communities and lives, SE Health was there, dedicated to continuing that incredible impact and ensuring that the people we care for were safe at home. Shirlee Sharkey Purpose, Mission, Values, Vision We faced pandemic challenges head on; using Hope and Happiness as a vehicle to drive President & CEO compassion, innovation and resilience. The result: a year of extraordinary social innovation, demonstrating our empathy, kindness and leadership in a time of global crisis. There were more than a few obstacles – limited access to PPE, continually changing public health guidelines, fear, exhaustion, and grief – but in mere days, we transformed our care provision, pivoting services to virtual where appropriate, supporting safe in-person interactions, and keeping our clients and their families connected, the best way we could. From our work in the community to our redeployment efforts in hospitals and long-term care homes, our incredible people answered the call, putting their own needs aside to serve others. At the same time, our health care leaders made strategic investments to improve the lives of all Canadians – expanding end-of-life care through our Foundation, advocating for improved access to home care, creating new models of seniors housing, and much, much more. I am truly proud to share stories from the past year showcasing the extraordinary social innovation we achieved. Our impact is heartfelt, and our purpose is timeless: to bring Hope and Happiness to people and communities, at all times. Our team members travelled 22 million+ kilometers last year to serve their communities. That’s nearly 600 times around the world! There is no limit to how far we will go to bring Hope and Happiness. President & CEO SE Health 2
CEO Empowering Transforming Strengthening Honouring End-of- Special Remarks People Care Systems Talent Life Journeys Features WHY does SE Health exist? WHAT do we do? HOW do we do it? WHERE are we going? CEO Remarks A Year of Extraordinary Social Innovation Purpose Mission Values Vision To bring hope and happiness. As a not-for-profit social • Life Care To forever impact how Purpose, Mission, Values, Vision enterprise, we share our • Love people live and age at knowledge, provide the best home, across Canada and care and help each client to • Work with Purpose around the world. realize their most meaningful goals for health and wellbeing. The SE Promise Areas of Impact: Empowering Patients and LIFE We bring health to life. Our care starts with you. Caregivers CARE We go where you’re going. Transforming Care Systems We love what we do. We treat each person with dignity LOVE and love, like our own family. We build empathy. Strengthening Talent WORK We tackle tough problems. We do the right thing. Honouring WITH We are inspired to make a difference. End-of-Life PURPOSE Journeys 3
CEO Empowering Transforming Strengthening Honouring End-of- Special Remarks People Care Systems Talent Life Journeys Features Empowering People Empowering People COVID-19 Impact Snapshot Partnerships Drive Health Care Innovation Research Spotlight Did You Know? IMPACT: We enable people to receive care in the places they call home – something that is even more important during the COVID-19 pandemic – and work collaboratively to ensure care meets holistic life needs. 4
CEO Empowering Transforming Strengthening Honouring End-of- Special Remarks People Care Systems Talent Life Journeys Features Empowering People During COVID-19, Bonnie Jennings played peek-a-boo with her adult daughter for the first time in over thirty Empowering People years. It was a feeling the SE Health Customer Service Coordinator savoured while working from home and caring for her daughter at the same time. But that joy COVID-19 Impact Snapshot for Bonnie didn’t come until months into the pandemic, after many long and exhausting days. Sarah, Bonnie’s daughter, is non-verbal and has a Partnerships Drive Health disability. When the pandemic hit, Sarah’s day program Care Innovation stopped. It was extremely hard for Bonnie to balance everything, and she felt overwhelmed. Bonnie Jennings with her daughter Sarah. “I cried every day for three months,” she said. Research Spotlight Bonnie says she’s not a spiritual person but when she heard about the virtual spiritual care services at SE Health, she wanted to try it. Did You Know? “A wonderful woman named Susan Morgan responded immediately. She told me that she has experience living and working with people who have disabilities. She was supportive, non-judgmental and kind.” In March 2020, when home spiritual care visits halted, Susan and her colleagues seamlessly switched to Microsoft Teams to support staff and clients to ensure continuity of care. This care was a lifesaver for Bonnie and her family. “If I wasn’t at home, I may have missed the chance to play peek-a-boo with Sarah,” said Bonnie. “I am so grateful.” 5
CEO Empowering Transforming Strengthening Honouring End-of- Special Remarks People Care Systems Talent Life Journeys Features Empowering People COVID-19 Impact Snapshot Empowering People COVID-19 Impact Snapshot ~2.2M 400K 35+ 100K MASKS GOWNS USED RESEARCH PROJECTS VIRTUAL VISITS Partnerships Drive Health Care Innovation Research Spotlight 3,848 3.2M 134+ HOURS OF TEAMS CONNECTIONS PARTNERSHIPS SPIRITUAL CARE Did You Know? ~4M ALMOST 182 4,000L CLIENT & STAFF SCREENERS COMPLETED HSW-PSW GRADS OF HAND SANITIZER 6
CEO Empowering Transforming Strengthening Honouring End-of- Special Remarks People Care Systems Talent Life Journeys Features Empowering People SE Health is Keeping People Safe and Healthy at Home Empowering People COVID-19 Impact Snapshot Partnerships Drive Health Care Innovation Research Spotlight Did You Know? 7
CEO Empowering Transforming Strengthening Honouring End-of- Special Remarks People Care Systems Talent Life Journeys Features Empowering People Empowering People Partnerships Drive Health Care Innovation COVID-19 Impact Snapshot Partnerships Drive Health Care Innovation Research Spotlight Our Elizz program supports caregivers in their home communities with innovative resources, programs, and now partnerships. In the last year, we engaged in 10 strategic partnerships that produced new products like the Gillette Did You Know? TREO Razor, developed new ways to coordinate care through the RBC CareEasy app, and launched a challenge to bring caregiving strategies to organizational human resources teams through the Ryerson Venture Zone in Brampton. For a full list of caregiver partners, please visit the Elizz Marketplace. Gillette TREO Razor RBC CareEasy 8
CEO Empowering Transforming Strengthening Honouring End-of- Special Remarks People Care Systems Talent Life Journeys Features Empowering People Long Term Life Care at Home: More Options for Aging Canadians Home is where Canadians want to be. Our SE Research 205,000+ standardized home care Centre is leading a study in collaboration with researchers Empowering People assessments analyzed from the University of Waterloo and interRAI Canada to develop a model of long-term ‘life care’ at home—to sustainably meet the medical, functional and social needs COVID-19 Impact Snapshot 6 patient groups with unique combinations of more community-dwelling older Canadians and delay of ‘life care’ needs or avoid their admission to hospital or residential care settings. The goal is to support the development of a Partnerships Drive Health more integrated continuum of long-term care services and provide more options for Canadians to live, age and Care Innovation 45 interdisciplinary home care providers surveyed receive care in their own homes. Read more here: Long-term LIFE care at home: the future of aging-focused care in Canada Research Spotlight 65 types of community-based care and support services Did You Know? 6 care packages to meet long-term life care needs Social frailty Caregiver Chronic disease Cognitive Medical Geriatric distress management impairment/ complexity syndromes behaviours 9
CEO Empowering Transforming Strengthening Honouring End-of- Special Remarks People Care Systems Talent Life Journeys Features Empowering People Did You Empowering People Know? 30+ Elizz Paws companion dogs and their human COVID-19 Impact Snapshot volunteers stayed engaged virtually with patients and caregivers through social media during the pandemic bringing Hope and Happiness and innumerable smiles. Partnerships Drive Health Care Innovation Research Spotlight Bonnie Lelievre, Pro-Bono Manager of Volunteer Services for the Saint Elizabeth Foundation is hard at work sewing masks for clients, patients, and caregivers. Did You Know? Volunteers donated more than 8,500 hours of sewing time to create 32,000+ cloth masks for clients, patients, and caregivers in need across the country. 10
CEO Empowering Transforming Strengthening Honouring End-of- Special Remarks People Care Systems Talent Life Journeys Features Transforming Care Systems Transforming Care Systems Aging and Mental Health: A Virtual Success IMPACT: Despite the challenges of COVID-19, the people we serve said they felt just as safe receiving our care at home as they did before the pandemic. We are proud of our 20,000+ hours invested in one year into transforming our digital systems, creating COVID-19 screeners, making virtual care more accessible, and continually developing our technology (equivalent to almost 900 days of 24/7 work). 11
CEO Empowering Transforming Strengthening Honouring End-of- Special Remarks People Care Systems Talent Life Journeys Features Transforming Care Systems Transforming Care Systems Aging and Mental Health: A Virtual Success Melanie Brown, RPN, is proud to deliver holistic care, ensuring the mental, emotional and physical well-being of her clients. Mary is making important choices – at home. She’s been doing that for over 70 years. “I choose survival, it’s always been that way for me,” said Mary, an Ontario-based artist. “As a baby, I was thrown between haystacks during the Second World War, when bombers flew over England. I am destined to survive.” During the first wave of the pandemic, Mary’s “survival” was about making the choice of how to receive care at home for a foot wound. In March 2020, when the pandemic began, SE Health quickly mobilized a virtual care strategy, ensuring clients like Mary had “choices” in receiving care. The strategy certified that all clients would continue to receive safe, quality and personalized care using communication tools like the telephone and email to promote continuity in care and ensure The SE Futures team presented at physical distancing between staff and clients. SE Health also utilized ‘Robocalls’ that prescreened clients for COVID-19 Did 80+ speaking events impacting You risks and allowed them to share their preference for a virtual or in-person visit. 30,000 people leading innovation Know? Mary’s original (vascular) wound, healed. She now feels more “in charge” of her care and acknowledges SE Health’s in health care. commitment to client “choice” as critical in her care journey. 12
CEO Empowering Transforming Strengthening Honouring End-of- Special Remarks People Care Systems Talent Life Journeys Features Transforming Care Systems I never once felt out of place and in fact I felt that I could make good and valuable contributions. I was amazed at how well you organized the details and agenda of the Transforming Care Systems workshop and really appreciated the discussion and input of others... wonderful job folks and it resulted in a very informative and valuable process. I look forward to the Aging and Mental Health: initiatives that come out of it - Workshop Participant A Virtual Success How do you learn what matters most to Canadians about aging and mental health? You ask them! That’s what the SE Research Centre did in collaboration with the Canadian Mental Health Association, National Office. Nationwide online engagement included monthly steering group meetings, 1,000+ survey responses and 50+ Canadians engaged in 4 virtual workshops. A list of top 10 unanswered questions on aging and mental health were generated and prioritized for future research and action. Read more here: Aging and Mental Health: What Research Priorities Matter Most to Canadians? Did The SE Research Centre formed over 17 years ago as part of SE You Health’s leadership in evidence-based practice, decision-making Know? and innovation. This strong foundation of applied knowledge and evidence helped SE Health to develop solutions to pandemic-related challenges in 4 priority areas this year: 1) Aging and Society; 2) Dying, Death and Grief; 3) Health and Care Experiences; and 4) Models of Care Delivery. Read more here: SE Research Areas of Focus 13
CEO Empowering Transforming Strengthening Honouring End-of- Special Remarks People Care Systems Talent Life Journeys Features Strengthening Talent Strengthening Talent Michael Decter Award Building Solutions in the First Nations, Inuit and Métis (FNIM) Program Did You Know? IMPACT: Educating new talent and empowering our people to deliver holistic, life care is an integral part of our purpose to bring Hope and Happiness to our communities. SE Health has provided education, training and integrated work placements for over 40,000 personal support workers, nurses, pharmacists and other community health workers in the past five years. 14
CEO Empowering Transforming Strengthening Honouring End-of- Special Remarks People Care Systems Talent Life Journeys Features Strengthening Talent Monika Janeczek is flying high – at home. But not because she was laid off from her job at an airline during the first wave of the pandemic. Strengthening Talent Investing in you so Since learning that she was out of work, the Ottawa-based together we can mother of two young children, very quickly found a new and help people in need rewarding ‘home’ in health care with the SE Health HSW-PSW Michael Decter Award Certificate Training Program. “The SE Health PSW Training Program helped me to further my education and work in an interesting role while contributing to our health care system during a crisis,” said Monika. “It also allowed me to Building Solutions in the First Nations, earn a pay cheque and support my family after being laid off from my job. I’m so glad I found this Monika Janeczek Inuit and Métis (FNIM) Program innovative program that continues to make a meaningful difference for me in many ways.” Monika is enjoying every minute, learning and working at SE Health and caring for others in a capacity that, looking back, Did You Know? she feels like she’s known her entire life. “I was young when my mother was diagnosed with breast cancer and my sister is blind, so I feel like health care has been in front of me my whole life. It wasn’t until I lost my job that I discovered health care as a new career.” Monika sees how making a difference now matters more than ever and she is so thankful to SE Health for investing in her success. Class of 2021 Monika Janeczek is the Award Did Our HSW-PSW Certificate of Excellence winner (London- You Training Program partnered with Know? Champlain) – presented to 14 organizations to ensure the students who show superior exceptional training of people in performance in the classroom 12 communities. and clinical settings. 15
CEO Empowering Transforming Strengthening Honouring End-of- Special Remarks People Care Systems Talent Life Journeys Features Strengthening Talent SE Health commemorated the 10-year anniversary of the Michael Decter Scholarship for Health Leadership and Policy Studies by recording and distributing a virtual panel. Strengthening Talent The virtual discussion featured an address from Michael Decter, Harvard-trained economist and former Board Chair at SE Health; with opening remarks from Shirlee Sharkey, SE Health President & CEO; and an interactive Michael Decter Award discussion about the Canadian healthcare system with scholarship recipients, past and present. The Roundtable was moderated by Nancy Lefebre, SE Health Chief Building Solutions in the First Nations, Clinical Executive and SVP of Knowledge and Practice. Inuit and Métis (FNIM) Program Did You Know? Reza Hosseini is the winner of the 2020 Michael Decter Scholarship for Health Leadership and Policy Other SE Health Studies. $5,000 Award Winners: Joan Lesmond 2021 - Aric Rankin SE Hope Award - Marie-Lee Yous 16
CEO Empowering Transforming Strengthening Honouring End-of- Special Remarks People Care Systems Talent Life Journeys Features Strengthening Talent Building Solutions in the First Nations, Inuit and Métis (FNIM) Program Increasing capacity in wound assessment and care is a longstanding priority in Ontario First Nations. SE Health is addressing this need through virtual learning during the Strengthening Talent COVID-19 pandemic. Michael Decter Award Building Solutions in the First Nations, Inuit and Métis (FNIM) Program Did You Know? A student practices wound care under the supervision Proper wound care techniques are demonstrated in a of a virtual instructor. virtual learning environment. This was a great hands-on course. The return demo was SE Health has a deep and proud history collaborating excellent and a great reminder on how to swab a wound with Indigenous communities across Canada. Through correctly. The instructors were very knowledgeable, excellence in education and training, and co-developing understanding and helpful; they made it a safe space to programs that support these communities, SE Health ask questions. The information was pertinent and on is honouring, respecting and acting upon the Truth and point to the reality of what our scope of practice involves. Reconciliation calls to action (Call to Action 92.iii) with - Melanie T, grateful nurse participant dedication and determination. 17
CEO Empowering Transforming Strengthening Honouring End-of- Special Remarks People Care Systems Talent Life Journeys Features Strengthening Talent Did You Know? SE Health has 23 practice coaches supporting frontline staff through Strengthening Talent Michael Decter Award 20 300+ 40+ 20+ Building Solutions in the First Nations, clinical quality clinical policies education new business Inuit and Métis (FNIM) Program improvement plans and procedures course offerings ventures/programs Did You Know? SE Learning provided 90% 29,000+ hours of education to more than 7,500 learners in the last year alone! of our customer service staff received training to provide great client and caregiver experiences over the phone 18
CEO Empowering Transforming Strengthening Honouring End-of- Special Remarks People Care Systems Talent Life Journeys Features Honouring End-of- Life Journeys Family is at the Heart of Care Building with Mission: Bringing Social Innovation, Health, and Housing Together for Older Adults Did You Know? COURAGE: Action for Better Aging IMPACT: We know that Canadians want to live, age, and die at home. SE Health is a leader in delivering palliative care at home and our Foundation’s mission is to support end-of-life care for people most in need. In the last year, we helped Canadians to journey through end-of-life safe at home, we made strategic investments into hospice care at Oak Ridges Hospice and Journey Home Hospice, and offered 17 eLearning courses for First Nations, Inuit, and Métis health care providers in communities across Canada to learn essential skills such as caregiving, end-of-life care, cancer care, and more. 19
CEO Empowering Transforming Strengthening Honouring End-of- Special Remarks People Care Systems Talent Life Journeys Features Honouring End-of- Life Journeys Our SE team is a big family serving 20,000 Canadians each day. We live our values Family is at the Heart of Care of life care, love, and work with purpose by supporting each other through hard times and celebrating the triumphs together. This has never been truer for Dr. Sheri Bergeron – the Saint Elizabeth Foundation’s Medical Director, and her family – than Building with Mission: Bringing over the last year. When her stepmother, Jan – a former nurse – was diagnosed Social Innovation, Health, and with terminal cancer, Sheri came to know her SE family in a new way. Housing Together for Older Adults “Home is where we want to be at the end of our lives,” said Sheri. “During the pandemic, being at home was even more important to Jan because it meant that family could visit and spend time together – something that would not have been possible in a hospital. It was incredible to rely on my SE colleagues to support us in Did You Know? the community.” Jan felt safe, supported, and cared for by an expert team, reflected Sheri. “She trusted COURAGE: Action for Better Aging them as fellow professionals and our whole family benefitted from the option to journey through Jan’s final days in the community. Thank you, Saint Elizabeth.” Dr. Sheri Bergeron 20
CEO Empowering Transforming Strengthening Honouring End-of- Special Remarks People Care Systems Talent Life Journeys Features Honouring End-of- Life Journeys Family is at the Heart of Care Building with Mission: Bringing Social Innovation, Health, and Housing Together for Older Adults Did You Know? COURAGE: Action for Better Aging Launched in 2020, the Building with Mission project is bringing together social innovation and housing initiatives to provide healthy aging options for older adults. The SE Health team is helping to create a country-wide playbook and assist three demonstration projects in Ontario and Alberta to initiate and accelerate housing developments with human-centred design methods. These projects will bridge the existing gap between independent and congregate living for aging Canadians. Informed by 25+ subject matter experts and stakeholders, and steered by 100+ hours of industry expert time, our playbook of step-by-step instructions and resources will assist Canadian non-profits to develop innovative housing options. Find out more: buildingwithmission.ca 21
CEO Empowering Transforming Strengthening Honouring End-of- Special Remarks People Care Systems Talent Life Journeys Features Honouring End-of- Did You Life Journeys Know? The SE Health and Saint Elizabeth Foundation Family is at the Heart of Care teams distributed 5,000 warm blankets and 1,000 individual gift cards to patients, caregivers, and Canadians in need. Building with Mission: Bringing Social Innovation, Health, and Housing Together for Older Adults Journey Home Hospice, Toronto’s Did You Know? only hospice specifically serving the homeless community expanded from four to ten beds in the middle of the COVID-19 COURAGE: Action for Better Aging pandemic! More than 900 people attended the virtual grand opening of Journey Home Hospice and 34 million+ people read articles about the hospice. Take the tour and see how the Saint Elizabeth Foundation is empowering end-of-life care for people most in need: 22
CEO Empowering Transforming Strengthening Honouring End-of- Special Remarks People Care Systems Talent Life Journeys Features Honouring End-of- Life Journeys The COURAGE initiative is led by SE Health and the Covenant family, Canadian leaders in the seniors’ living and care sectors, working to deliver and promote a positive future for older adults. By 2054, Canada’s population of adults over 65 will make up more than 20% of the population, managing multiple health diagnoses, and at the same time, older adults have made it clear they prefer to live and age at home. The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted concerns related Family is at the Heart of Care to safety, wellbeing, independence, and quality of life in our current system; COURAGE will engage Canadians to take action in planning their care and bring together individual stakeholders and organizational partners to better recreate a system that prioritizes choice. This continues SE Health’s ground-breaking work in the Future of Aging and challenges all of us to reconsider what aging means and how to promote whole-person, life care for all Canadians in whatever Building with Mission: Bringing place they call home. Find out more: actionforbetteraging.ca Social Innovation, Health, and Housing Together for Older Adults Did You Know? AGE: Action for Better Aging COURAGE 23
CEO Empowering Transforming Strengthening Honouring End-of- Special Remarks People Care Systems Talent Life Journeys Features Special Features Focus Feature: SE Health Collaboration with Future of Good Technology Partnership Keeps Older Adults Connected During the Pandemic and Inspires Ontario Health Study Collaborating with others and forming strategic partnerships helps us to make a more significant impact for Canadians. We are proud to showcase how we are leveraging media and technology partners to positively influence our communities. 24
CEO Empowering Transforming Strengthening Honouring End-of- Special Remarks People Care Systems Talent Life Journeys Features Special Features Focus Feature: SE Health Collaboration with Future of Good Technology Partnership Keeps Older Adults Connected During the Pandemic and Inspires Ontario Health Study Looking to the future of health care is more than just health systems influence for SE Health. It’s about social connectivity – looking through the lens of culture, society, and how we collaborate and interact as social beings. This is one way we are lending expertise to the conversation. Intergenerational bonds are an important factor in how health and aging are addressed and viewed as opportunities or deficits. Bonds can manifest organically, but according to Justine Giosa, Managing Director, SE Research Centre, there’s now a greater demand for the health care system to respond to the rising need for social connectivity among younger and older adults alike. “We need to focus on care that is less about bricks and buildings and more about people and communities” she says. A new research paper, for example, showed the benefits of intergenerational connections after a group of nursing students brought together older adults, people with disabilities and preschool aged children to create a community garden, finding that if everyone came together to build something, they learned more about each other and from each other, thus extinguishing any bias or tension between generations. SE Health has extraordinary thought leadership and work on the future of aging. We cherish this content partnership as our joint energies are about broadening the care and aging conversation beyond the health sector. We look forward to what’s next. Future of Good 25
CEO Empowering Transforming Strengthening Honouring End-of- Special Remarks People Care Systems Talent Life Journeys Features Special Features Connecting with loved ones promotes happiness, Focus Feature: SE Health Collaboration security and well-being – especially during a pandemic. with Future of Good But for a large portion of Canada’s aging population, specifically older adults in long-term care homes, that connectivity was lost – without the opportunity to see Technology Partnership Keeps family and friends and without access to the internet and digital devices. Older Adults Connected During the Pandemic and Inspires In December 2020, SE Health and the Saint Elizabeth Ontario Health Study Foundation partnered with technology suppliers to help older adults across the country to connect with their loved ones. SE Health staff nominated older clients in their care and delivered 700+ donated devices, gathering many stories of hardship, but creating enormous Hope and Happiness for clients and their families along the way. This wonderful partnership has led to a ‘first of its kind’ quality improvement study, guided by leaders at SE Health, with Ontario Health, Central Region, that aims to better understand the use of digital devices in long-term care homes, provide options to enhance digital connections, and therefore work on reducing social isolation for older adults. The reality: many residents in long-term care homes aren’t connected to the internet; nor do they have access to devices that would allow them to connect with people outside of their homes. The SE Futures team delivering Google Nest Hub Max devices in their communities. 26
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