Facility Tour - Kaye Edmonton Clinic and Mazankowski Alberta Heart Institute, University of Alberta Hospital 

The Kaye Edmonton Clinic provides coordinated diagnostic and specialist ambulatory services to patients and their families in a fully integrated facility. Patients benefit from seamless, outpatient clinical care and streamlined access to specialized services and specialists. Ambulatory services are brought together under one roof, including surgical, medical, family and seniors’ clinics, diagnostic imaging, orthopedic and neurosciences clinics and the University of Alberta’s School of Dentistry and the Glen Sather Sports Medicine Clinic. It’s also the future home to the Northern Alberta Urology Centre, the C.J. Woods Prostate Health Clinic, Northern Alberta Renal Program, transplants and adult mental health clinics. When patients come in to see their physician, they can schedule appointments to see a social worker, dietitian or other members of their care team on the same day in the same building. When fully operational, nearly one million patients a year will benefit from the Kaye Edmonton Clinic’s integrated network of care.

The Kaye Edmonton Clinic is an 8 story 118,000 square meter facility, designed and awarded as LEED Silver.

The Mazankowski Alberta Heart Institute is a world-class program within the University of Alberta Hospital. The Mazankowski Alberta Heart Institute has become one of Canada’s leading heart centers in the prevention and treatment of heart disease. It offers comprehensive cardiac surgery, cardiology services and patient education. The Mazankowski is the nucleus for highly skilled cardiac care professionals, researchers and educators. It is also the training ground for the cardiac leaders of tomorrow. Adult and pediatric patients from Alberta as well as western and northern Canada benefit from the highest level of patient-centered care, state-of-the-art diagnostic and treatment technology.

The Mazankowski Alberta Heart Institute also strongly supports cardiovascular research. It provides a shared environment for patient care and research through The Alberta Cardiovascular and Stroke Research Centre (ABACUS), one of the many research elements in the Mazankowski Alberta Heart Institute. By bringing clinicians and researchers together in a shared environment, they are better able to integrate new knowledge and emerging treatments to advance patient care. The Mazankowski Alberta Heart Institute includes an indoor healing garden, and a state-of-the-art interactive 100-seat digital classroom with two 4K digital projectors offering real-time consultation with the global cardiac community.

The Mazankowski Alberta Heart Institute resides on 5 floors of a 8 story expansion of the Walter C Mackenzie Health Sciences Centre, including Canada’s busiest heliport. The Walter C Mackenzie Health Sciences Centre also includes the remainder of the University of Alberta Hospital, Stollery Children’s Hospital, Provincial Laboratory, and the University of Alberta’s Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry. The Mazankowski Alberta Heart Institute expansion was designed and awarded as LEED Silver.

Don Winn

Don Winn is an MIT Sloan Fellow and organizational coach who works with national and international senior leaders to create high-performance cultures and transformational change.

Over the last 25 years, Don has had direct accountability for organizational transformations valued at in excess of $30B and functioned as an external advisor for other transformations valued at more than $250B.  In healthcare, Don has worked with senior leaders across five provinces at clinical, administrative, executive and government levels.

His field experience is complimented with research on high performance teams, senior leadership and creating sustainable results during turbulent times.

The intent of this session is to illustrate the benefits of HRG and how to create a safer and more reliable distribution system.  The benefits identify how to avoid unscheduled power interruption, drastically reducing arc flash incidents, mitigating multiple ground faults by selectively tripping les prioritized feeders, and locating ground faults without de-energizing the power system.  The various methods of applying HRG will be explored.  Low Resistance Grounding and Hybrid Grounding methods will be assessed as well.

• Extent of the natural catastrophe
• Communications during the disaster
• Command centres - local and provincial
• The Town of Canmore was completely inaccessible by road
• Evacuations and how they were accomplished
• Remediation of damaged facilities
• Lessons learned
• Mitigation to reduce the impact in the event of a repeat occurance

Identifying and coordinating workflow processes to existing systems… What works well and what doesn’t? Next, what’s the perfect system look like from a clinical staff perspective? Finally, blending these requirements with long-term strategic IT planning is critical. Without acknowledging clinical needs and IT system planning, newly implemented systems have a higher rate of failure among clinical staff.

• Provide the attendees with tools to assess the requirements for integration.
• Allow the attendees to identify the processes involved in System Integration.
• Identify systems affected by and benefiting from integration.
• Assess the benefits from integration
• Identify the individuals needed to participate in an integration exercise