Representatives from Tandem Health Partners joined the North Island Hospitals Project team at the latest Comox Valley community information meeting on the evening of Tuesday, December 8, 2015. Here’s a copy of the presentation.

1. North Island Hospitals Project
Comox Valley Community Information Session
December 8th, 2015

2. • K’ómoks First Nation
Acknowledgement of Traditional Lands

3. 32,316 m2
95 Beds
$274.5 M
40% Comox-Strathcona Regional Hospital District
39,826 m2
153 Beds
$331.7 M
40% Comox-Strathcona Regional Hospital District
Campbell River Hospital
375 2nd Avenue
Comox Valley Hospital
101 Lerwick Road
North Island
Hospitals Project

4. • A place we want to work and learn
o An environment for collaboration in promoting health
and wellness
o Foster teaching, recruitment and retention
• Evidence based design
o Quality and safety
o Future and needs focused
o Similarity / standardization
o Technology
• Patient centred for Islanders , First Nations and the
Elderly
o Deliver safe, quality health care and improved health
outcomes
3 Guiding Principles

5. Project Update

6. Site Local* North
Island**
Remainder
Vancouver
Island
Mainland &
Other
Total per
site
Campbell
River
206 0 35 49 290
Comox Valley 204 0 86 14 304
Total 410 0 121 63 594
October 2015 Reporting:
Local Hires (69%) & Island Hires (89% )
*Local – Campbell River, Comox, Courtenay, Cumberland (& surrounding unincorporated areas)
**North Island – North/East/West of Campbell River

7. Apprenticeship Program
Combined Site Apprentice (October Reporting)
Plumbing /
Mechanical
50 Roofing 3
Electrical 48 Carpentry 1
Walls & Ceilings 20
Total 122

8. • Best Social Infrastructure Silver Award •
• Employment & skills training reaching new heights – news release •
• Interiors-Wayfinding meetings •
• Public-Patient Advisory Committee meetings •
• New aerial videos •
Project Updates Since September 2015

9. Entry Hall &
Reception Bienvenue

10. Maternity

11. All Nations Room

12. • Room numbers & signs
• Name for departments
• Signage for parking
• Height of signs
• Electronic signs / displays
Interiors-Wayfinding Aboriginal Working Group
Engage physicians &
clinicians
• Traditional plants / medicines
• All Nations Room
• Signage
What Are We Working On?
• Patient lifts
• LDRP design
• Fixtures and fittings

13. Examples of Fixtures and New Clinical
Technologies
Comox Valley Hospital
Level 4 – Inpatient Unit
• RoomLink
• Medication cart
• Smart bed
• Hand hygiene sink
• Washing station

14. Construction Update

15. What Are We Working On?
Comox Valley
• Parkade
• Mechanical Penthouses
• Rough-in of Systems, such as
plumbing, electrical…etc.

16. Comox Valley Hospital
October 24th, 2015

17. Comox Valley Hospital - Exterior
November 23rd, 2015

18. Webcam
December 8th, 2015

19. Lv 1 – Emergency department Lv 2 – Light well
Lv 4 – View from PsychiatryLv 3 – Elevator shaft

20. Transition and Operational Planning

21. Geography Key People
• Dr. Jeff Beselt
Executive Medical Director
• Dermot Kelly
Executive Director
• Pauline Bernard
Director of Comox Valley and
Campbell River
• Dr. Peter Olesen
Medical Director of North Island
Hospitals Clinical Operations and
Transformation
• John Fitzgerald
Clinical Project Director
• Dr. Stefan Schovanek
Clinical Project Medical Director
• Karen Pettit
Director of Strategic People
Leadership
• Kerry Morrison
Director of North Island Hospitals
Operations & Transformation

22. • A place we want to work and learn
o An environment for collaboration in promoting health
and wellness
o Foster teaching, recruitment and retention
• Evidence based design
o Quality and safety
o Future and needs focused
o Similarity / standardization
o Technology
• Patient centred for Islanders , First Nations and the
Elderly
o Deliver safe, quality health care and improved health
outcomes
3 Guiding Principles

23. For more information and updates,
visit our website:
http://nihp.viha.ca/
North Island Hospitals Project Website