Transcription of IAN ANDERSON HOUSE
1 AnnualNewsletter2014 IAN ANDERSON HOUSE430 Winston Churchill Blvd., Oakville, Ontario L6J 7X2 Tel: (905) 337-8004 Fax: (905) 337-8006 Charitable Reg. No. 13890 4602 RR0001 Mailing Address: c/o Box 61034, 511 Maple Grove Drive, Oakville, Ontario L6J 7P5 Ian ANDERSON Resource Centre UpdateWe are grateful to the Gear Foundation whose grant monies have assisted us in the last three years in hosting The Fundamentals andAdvance of Hospice Palliative Care programs;Palliative Pain Assessment & Management;and Building A High Performance InterdisciplinaryTeam. This year, in addition to the IARC supporting the facilitation of the Learning Essential Approaches to Palliative and End of Life Care course,we will also be running another Team Effectiveness Series as well as hosting McMaster University s Leadership From Within for the goal of filling existing gaps in training and education the IARC has been offering educational programs which arespecifically designed to meet the learning goals and needs of palliative end-of-life healthcare on a Challenging YearA regular visitor to Ian AndersonHouse was the deer, photographed hereby a family member, who.
2 Together withhis family, came to be fed and admiredby our families and staff during lastyear s hard past year was a very busy one forour hospice. Our team of five part-timeRN Home Co-ordinators headed byPeggy and Tracey made a recordnumber of visits to families in thecommunities of Halton and Peel, notonly to those referrals seeking admissionto Ian ANDERSON HOUSE , but also tomany caregivers in the community look-ing for advice and support. By year-end,based on numbers for the first ninemonths in 2014, the number of homevisits is expected to reach 600 and theadmissions to our hospice to reach those numbers indicate a growingtrend they are a clear indication, notonly that more practical support shouldbe provided to caregivers in the commu-nity, but also that more necessary timebe given for advice and support by thevisiting nurses contracted by the is an obvious gap in our currentHealth Care system that must beaddressed if more visits to Hospitalemergency rooms.
3 Particularly thosewith few, if any, designated palliativebeds are to be HOUSE also saw some majorchanges in 2014. The two major oneswere the installation by Oakville Hydroof a natural gas line running fromWinston Churchill Blvd. which replacedour reliance on propane use and is awelcome, long awaited improvement forgeneral efficiency and reduced operatingcost. The second improvement was thereplacement of the old wooden standardlight poles in our parking lot, whichwere funded by our long-time supporterThe Canadian Donner Foundation, thathave much improved the lighting on thelot and are also energy and cost are very fortunate to have a careteam at Ian ANDERSON HOUSE that notonly met and dealt with all thechallenges of 2014 but also went aboveand beyond.
4 Peggy and Tracey and ourHome Co-ordinator team made homevisits to all calls made for referrals andsupport and were also always at thehospice to welcome and settle in newresidents and their families. All of that,as well as handling their regular dailyhospice responsibilities and increasednecessary paper work was efficientlycoped with. Our Personal SupportWorkers, who do all the major housecleaning, keep the bedrooms in thenecessary condition and provide theirround-the-clock resident care, also foundtime to spend with the increasednumber of families and visitors.
5 Our IanAnderson Volunteers cheerfully handledthe increased number of phone calls,light household duties, families andvisitors and still took the necessary timeto spend with families and visitors overa cup of coffee in the kitchen andshowing and explaining the day-to-dayfunctioning of our hospice. Behind the scenes our part-timeadministrative staff, Margaret andLesley, have been handling a steadilyincreasing work load. Margaret is alsoresponsible for hiring individuals andcompanies to maintain the highstandards that are set for the smoothfunctioning of the HOUSE and for thegardens and grounds that are so muchenjoyed by residents and families.
6 Bothalso volunteer their time working at allof our events. Monique, our ResourceCentre Administrator is also our jack ofall trades who efficiently handles all thesmall emergencies that are normaloccurrences in every home. She keeps aclose eye on the work being done on theexternal improvements and is alsolargely responsible for organizing ourfundraising Members of our Board meet toreview all that is happening at thehospice and, when necessary, combinetheir specific areas of professional exper-tise to make decisions that will have apositive impact on the overall function-ing of IAH.
7 They, together with ourAdministrative Staff, are our essential support team that keep Ian AndersonHouse running smoothly and enablesour care team to provide the qualityand necessary care that has earned ourhospice the impeccable reputation that isobviously constantly grateful thanks to all who gener-ously supported our Hospice in 2014 andfor the past seventeen years. You made itpossible for us to offer care and supportto more than 1800 families in our community during a most difficult time. From all at our HOUSE to all of you,our sincere thanks and every good wishfor the coming ANDERSON , Founder, IAHWe Welcome ourNew VolunteersNicole BrideauNorina GoeganSuzanne GrantGail GuimondRuth HaymanEster LighteningAlan MorrisonBarrie NaylorAnn PeddieDiana PicciottoliDebbie SabatinoCatharine ScottCarol SimpsonJosie VescioSherry VrenkenWe Bid Farewell withour Gratitude andBest Wishes to:Frank BooneAnna DejnickiLinda GraburnPaige HommeBob TrilliaPam WebbIan ANDERSON HouseMembers of the BoardDr.
8 Peter AllenMr. Gene AllevatoMs. Margaret AndersonMr. Stuart AndersonMr. Ted R. LaanMr. Robert Pollard2 Our StaffLinda TaylorTo learn more aboutIan ANDERSON HouseYou may visit our website learn more aboutIan ANDERSON ResourceCentreYou may visit our website Profile of an IAH VolunteerCarol De athCarol De ath began gathering resource and educationalmaterial for our Ian ANDERSON Resource Centre in 2003before it was officially opened in the summer of 2004. Shehas continued, since that time, to expand our library thatmostly focuses on palliative care in order to offer support tofamilies in our community who are caring for a familymember in their homes.
9 Carol comes regularly to volunteer her time in theResource Centre each Thursday and spends much of hertime assembling our Caregivers Tool Kit that was designedand produced by the Centre and which has had an increasingly wide circulation tofamily caregivers in the committees of Halton and is also a generous supporter of our fundraising events and volunteers her timeat all of them. Most recently she donated and arranged beautiful centrepieces for thetables at our annual golf tournament held in September at The Indian Wells Golf says that she is impressed by the teamwork and the willingness of ourvolunteers and staff to help at our events.
10 We are very fortunate and grateful to haveher as a volunteer at the IARC and for her dedication and support of was a community nurse employed by a nursingagency, that was contracted by our Home Care system, whenshe was first assigned to Ian ANDERSON HOUSE in Septemberof has been a member of our staff since that time andcurrently works for our hospice four days each week. She isa dedicated and total professional and understands the philo-sophy and purpose of our HOUSE , which is to provide thenecessary and professional compassionate care that allowsfamilies to spend quality time with a family says that she is honoured to be a part of the IAHhospice care team that allows us all to give the specificpalliative care needs to the resident and to their are also very grateful to Linda and her husband for their support of our fundrais-ing events that allow us to offer our care and support, without charge.
