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Innovate for Impact:

Hospital teams pitch ideas for funding.

On April 21, the Georgian Bay will support patients through their
General Hospital (GBGH) Foundation surgical journey with education,
welcomed donors, sponsors, and guidance, and direct connection
frontline healthcare professionals to their care team. Through “Innovate for Impact
to Innovate for Impact, a new event personalized reminders, evidence- is about seeing the
bringing together the people who based education, and direct access incredible ideas our care
give and the teams who care—each to a GBGH surgical nurse, the app teams bring forward
playing a vital role in advancing the will help reduce anxiety, improve every day—and making
patient experience close to home. patient confidence and recovery sure they’re heard...
experiences before and after surgery. It connects people
The event created an opportunity for who want to give with
members of the GBGH team to pitch We are so grateful to our event the people who are
innovative ideas shaped by what they sponsors Bourgeois Auto Group, delivering health care
see and experience every day caring LabX Media Group, and Whitfields so, together, we can
for patients—proposals for tools, Guardian Pharmacy (Abadir Nasr) for make a real difference
equipment, and programs beyond helping make the evening possible. for patients and families
current hospital priorities. Attendees
Thanks to the dedication of our staff in our community.”
heard from five teams and voted
presenters, and the generosity of
to fund the idea that inspired them – Victoria Evans, Senior Key
our donor community, the evening
most. Relationships Officer, GBGH
was a meaningful step forward in Foundation
This year’s winning project, ‘Surgical supporting innovation at GBGH.
Care App: SeamlessMD’, presented
by Michelle Blake and Alex Rawn,

Scan to see highlights from this year’s event.
For more information about participating in next year’s
event, please contact Victoria Evans at
evansv@gbgh.on.ca or 705-526-1300 ext 5344.

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