Dear fellow MDRAO members and guests,
First and foremost, we would like to congratulate and commend you on the jobs you have done this year. It has been a very trying and exhausting year, to say the least. Well done!
This year has been a difficult year for the board regarding meetings and board functions. It seems that every time that we feel that the pandemic shows signs of easing up and try to coordinate a meeting, COVID comes back and we need to cancel. We did, however, manage a meeting in London in April and got a lot of work done.
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Please take a moment to browse through our health and wellness links.
Take care, stay safe!
Canadian Mental Health Association
Government of Canada
Infection Prevention and Control
Parenting during COVID-19
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Read more about the Medical Device Reprocessing Association of Ontario and what it has to offer.
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2020 was one heck of a year! Right?
We all have our stories from the past year.
For most of us, our thoughts jump to “stressful”!
What's your story? What were the ups and downs of 2020?
What about 2021? What's your story going to be?
On the surface, you might feel like it's out of your hands, as if there's too much uncertainty and you're at the whim of the world.
But dig deeper...
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Goodbye 2020, hello 2021! We must admit it, 2020 has been a memorable year for everyone! This is not a year that we will forget soon.
While 2020 has been challenging for everyone, here are some of the challenges that the MDRD technicians in our region had to face.
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Year 2020, like no other, is behind us, but still the uncertainty of the pandemic is lingering around us with a new variant of COVID-19 circulating in parts of the world. Since it started, there is no doubt that everyone is affected; it changes the way we do our daily activities from hand washing, wearing face coverings and physical distancing, including social distancing, which means no parties or gatherings, no or limited visitations to our love ones and our relatives not even siblings and parents. Our workplaces are very much affected; some are closed during lockdowns to the extent employees are laid off – worst of it, a lot of businesses are straggling to restart or decides to closed down.
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Although we still see ourselves with challenges due to COVID-19, Sigma Chapter has decided to still move forward with improvements. Following our Virtual Education Conference in October, the promise to create a Facebook group has been delivered. January 2021, an 'MDRAO- Sigma Chapter' group was created and launched via Facebook. The objectives of the group are to deliver educational links, upcoming meeting dates, scheduled conferences as well as an easy source for members with questions to post and receive answers in a timely manner. It also allows MDRD technicians to join and see firsthand the benefits of becoming an MDRAO member. Most communication has been delivered via email in the past, but not all members check their emails daily; however, each individual typically does not go a day without checking their Facebook. The Sigma Chapter board members have pure confidence this will be a successful way to communicate with our current members as well as a window to bring on more individuals to the MDRAO organization. Sigma Chapter does plan on hosting another virtual meeting this coming April.
Stacey Marshall
Tiffany Anjema
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Healthcare Finance News
Medical device reprocessing can play an important role in reducing waste and helping healthcare facilities be more cost-effective, according to a new analysis.
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CBC
A study conducted at a hospital in Winnipeg found that cleaning used N95 masks in an autoclave led to fit-testing failures for some masks.
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The ChronicleHerald
A look at the medical device reprocessing department at Dartmouth General Hospital in Nova Scotia.
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