I AM I AM WE MANY VOICES, ONE MISSION Report to the Commuity 2016
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MANY VOICES, ONE MISSION Across Alberta, our Coveat family is called to be a healig presece i our commuities. Our three separate orgaizatios Coveat Health, Coveat Care ad Coveat Livig are joied i a sigle missio of compassioate, quality service to Albertas. At the heart of our missio is a profoud respect for the sacredess of life ad the digity of each perso ad a uwaverig commitmet to serve all people, from all backgrouds ad faiths. As the largest provider of Catholic health care ad service, we are a sigificat parter i our provice s sigle health system, carig for people at every stage of life from begiig to ed. Our drive to serve is demostrated i our rich history, high quality programs ad services ad the stregth of our team who care for people with humility ad opeess. We believe that quality care fosters relatioships, where those ivolved i the healig jourey are people first, ad health care providers participate with those they serve with compassio ad humaity. Livig our missio with itegrity creates awareess ad uderstadig, both of self ad others, ad has a lastig impact o people s lives ad the commuities we serve. We are proud to share with you the may courageous, vulerable voices of those we serve with compassio ad humaity: our patiets, residets, ad the families ad frieds that support them. May Voices, Oe Missio affirms that every voice ad every experiece matters ad that, together, we ca erich ad trasform health care ad build commuities of health ad healig. We also are pleased to share with you how we have respoded to that call ad how we are growig i service. We are thakful for your support, for the strog coectios with our commuities, ad for those log-established parterships that brig experiece, wisdom ad hope. Blessigs Ed Stelmach Board Chair Patrick Dumelie Chief Executive Officer
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MANY VOICES, ONE MISSION MISSION We are called to cotiue the healig miistry of Jesus by servig with compassio, upholdig the sacredess of life i all stages, ad carig for the whole perso body, mid ad soul. VALUES As a Catholic orgaizatio, we are committed to servig people of all faiths, cultures ad circumstaces accordig to our values: Compassio, Respect, Collaboratio, Social Justice, Itegrity, Stewardship. VISION Ispired by our missio of service, we will be leaders ad parters i trasformig health care ad creatig vibrat commuities of health ad healig. STRATEGIC DIRECTIONS SERVE We will stregthe our missio ad live our values to meet the eeds of those we serve through excellece i care, a egaged team ad wise use of resources. GROW We will seek out ad respod to the eeds of our commuity, especially vulerable ad margialized populatios. TRANSFORM We will create systems of care that will eable people ad commuities to be healthy. CONTRIBUTE We will leverage our legacy to maximize the strategic cotributio of Catholic healthcare.
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MANY VOICES, ONE MISSION He sees through all that has happeed. To him, I m just mom. MALLOREY LONG I February, Mallorey, aged 29, suffered a stroke after puttig her so Liam to bed. Mallorey s husbad Joe foud her o the floor, uable to move or speak. Determied ad courageous, Mallorey progressed from beig immobile to beig able to move all her limbs, followig two moths of itese rehabilitatio. Oce Mallorey retured home, the Early Supported Discharge (ESD) team from St. Mary s Hospital i Camrose bega workig with her. Livig i rural Alberta, it was difficult for the family to travel daily to the hospital. Uderstadig the limited resources of surroudig commuities, the Camrose ESD team travels up to a hour s radius from the hospital to help their patiets. It was amazig to have people come to my home every day, for eight weeks, says Mallorey. I would have bee scared ad aloe at the hospital, ad this allowed me to have my family aroud me while I was recoverig. Mallorey s goals such as preparig a meal, readig a story to her so, ad learig to exercise agai have bee realized. She cotiues to heal, attedig St. Mary s Hospital for speech therapy oce a week. Lookig forward, she is hopig to drive ad retur to her job. I am thakful for all the love ad support from family ad frieds ad all the doctors ad urses who helped me i my recovery, says Mallorey. Seeig this through my three-year-old s eyes has bee a blessig, says Mallorey. He sees through all that has happeed. To him, I m just mom. VISIT THEVITALBEAT.CA FOR MORE ON INNOVATION
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MANY VOICES, ONE MISSION This is the toughest jourey I ve ever bee o. GARY FORGET Gary ad Marie have bee married for 29 years. They have always ejoyed travellig to Mexico, spedig the past 22 years explorig the may resorts ad vacatio spots. Te years ago, they fell i love with Ixtapa, which has bee their aual destiatio every year sice. But their travellig days came to a halt whe Marie was diagosed o July 13, 2015 with lug cacer, ad they focused their eergies o Marie s rouds of radiatio ad chemotherapy treatmet that fall. The, the day before Remembrace Day, Marie lost feelig i her arm, ad was admitted to hospital i Calgary, where she was diagosed with brai cacer. Marie moved from the hospital to Dulcia Hospice i Jauary, as the rouds of treatmet eded ad the couple focused o spedig quality time together. Dulcia is a bright ad upliftig place, cosiderig the circumstaces, says Gary. Families are able to share meals together i oe of a few commuity spaces, ad there is a suite available for those wishig to stay close by. The staff ad voluteers offer comfort to residets ad their families durig what is ofte a difficult ad heartbreakig jourey. Marie had a few good moths whe she first arrived at the hospice, but the tumour is ow back, says Gary. It is a slow process ad very tough to watch. She s a fighter. Marie has bee at Dulcia Hospice the logest of ay residet. The couple s two grow childre live i Otario, ad Gary makes the jourey each day from their home i Cochrae. The staff are like family to us ow, ad the voluteers are amazig, says Gary. Beig with Marie here, I have see what the voluteers do. Oce my wife has passed ad I go through my grievig process, I will look ito voluteerig my time here. I have to come back ad see these people, they ve bee through so much with us. From the chaplai, to the medical director, the doctors, RNs, LPNs, RAs, ad voluteers they ve all bee woderful, shares Gary. My wife gets such good care. VISIT THEVITALBEAT.CA FOR MORE ON PALLIATIVE C
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MANY VOICES, ONE MISSION She looked past my wouds to see the perso that I am. KIRSTIN HUBERT I March, Kirsti sought a last ditch effort for treatmet at the Grey Nus Commuity Hospital whe the wouds o her feet cotiued to erode due to complicatios from diabetes. After a decade of tryig to maage her coditio, Kirsti s wouds were so advaced that the mother of two struggled every day to live with wouds that would t get better. At the Grey Nus she fially foud the healig she had bee seekig. I am grateful, says Kirsti. It was closer for my family, but I did t realize the level of care I would fid with Marlee Varga, Cliical Nurse Specialist, Ski ad Woud Care. Marlee was at my bedside every day for three moths, sometimes for hours at a time, says Kirsti. This was the first time I did t feel I was to blame. Havig thigs explaied made me feel like I had a part to play i my care ad recovery. Marlee also helped Kirsti create as ormal a life a possible for their family durig the time she was i the hospital. She helped ease Kirsti s axiety by brigig activities for her two school-aged childre to do, makig them comfortable i the cliical settig. Marlee is a miracle worker! I am so glad our paths crossed. It took a log time to figure out what would heal ot oly my wouds, but also my heart. She ever gave up o me. Marlee helped Kirsti receive cousellig through the hospital, recogizig that while she could address her physical wouds, there were deeper issues that also eeded healig. VISIT THEVITALBEAT.CA FOR MORE ON REHABILITATION
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MANY VOICES, ONE MISSION I am happy here. I have good care. JAMES STUBBS Origially from Otario, James has always led a active life, workig for may years i the oil field. A avid traveler ad sports ethusiast, James was 49 whe he was diagosed with Hutigto s disease. The progressive eurodegeerative disease that causes parts of the brai to die has ow progressed to a poit where it has robbed James of his mobility ad ability to speak. James moved to the complex care uit at the Edmoto Geeral two years ago. Before movig James here, the place he was livig looked great, but he did t receive the level of care that he ow experieces, says Betty, James log-time fried. The facility was t fully equipped to care for a patiet with Hutigto s ad as a result, James physical cotrol lesseed. Sice movig to the Edmoto Geeral, his coditio has stabilized. This is a much better home for him; his care comes first. The dedicated team cotacted the Hutigto Society to access resources ad traiig. The team wated to better uderstad eeds ad it has brought them closer to residets with the disease. A ardet sports fa, James participated both i playig ad coachig sports for may years. Caregivers have tured his passio for watchig sports with staff ito a commuity affair with residets joiig him i watchig their favourite teams. While Hutigto s disease has take its devastatig toll, his mid ad spirit are vibrat. James remais the same strog-willed getlema, whose sese of humour ad uwaverig Christia faith remai a costat source of stregth for him. I am happy here, says James. I have good care. VISIT THEVITALBEAT.CA FOR MORE ON CHRONIC CONDITIONS
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MANY VOICES, ONE MISSION They saw somethig i me that I ever saw; they ever gave up o me. JERRY SALVINO Meetig Jerry, you are immediately draw to his egagig gri ad the light i his blue eyes. His cheerful eergy ad opeess are a testimoy to how far Jerry has come from the dark days of his childhood i care ad a adult jourey shaped by the devastatig impact of violece ad crime. Jerry s life took a uexpected detour three years ago whe he was ivolved i a hit-ad-ru accidet as he was ridig his bicycle. He suffered a broke jaw, cheekboe ad ose ad a brai ijury. He had two hospital stays before he was admitted to Villa Caritas, a acute metal health facility that specializes i carig for seiors with complex metal ad medical health issues. It was a life-chagig experiece. I met three wome, he said. Dr. Harper, Dr. Walker ad social worker Amada who accepted me just the same as everyoe else. Everythig they said to me made sese, like othig ever had before. I saw so much more of myself through these wome. Thak God they pulled me out of it, Jerry says with a laugh. Livig idepedetly ow, Jerry has recoected with his family, icludig his gradchildre, ad has a ew-foud happiess ad sese of well-beig. I m 75 years old ad I should have started this jourey whe I was 30 I m way too old to have this ew life, he smiles. It s a excitig time. VISIT THEVITALBEAT.CA FOR MORE ON MENTAL HEALTH
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MANY VOICES, ONE MISSION There is t ay place we would rather have her, ad there is t aywhere else she d rather be. OLGA DUBUC & EILEEN LEFFLER Faith has always bee a itegral part of Mary Homeick s life. At 102, she cotiues to fid deep joy i attedig regular masses ad commuio. Whe Mary fell ad broke her hip, daughters Olga ad Eilee decided it was time to discuss movig her from her seiors residece to a care facility. We told her it was time to start lookig, says Eilee. Her reply was, I ve already looked, I ve doe my research, I m goig to the Mary Immaculate Care Cetre! Mary had lived i the Vegreville area all of her life, but felt that the Mary Immaculate Care Cetre i Mudare offered what she had bee lookig for. Cotiuig care provides a rage of medical ad social services for those who do ot have, or have lost some capacity for self-care ad require assistace i activities of daily livig. This is a ivitig place, with friedly ad approachable staff, says Eilee. Everyoe kows her ad it truly feels like her home. Daily activities, such as gardeig, pie bakig, playig cards, the eveig Rosary ad talkig about hockey with other residets keep Mary egaged. Her atural curiosity ofte leads her to ew experieces. It almost looks like she s gettig youger, laughed Olga. The stregth of the commuity supported Mary whe her gradso was havig surgery. She metioed her cocer to oe of the Sisters, who is also a residet. The Sister wet to the chapel to pray with her. That meat so much to her, remiisces Eilee. We are cofidet that all her eeds are met: physical, medical ad spiritual, says Olga. I do t thik we could have chose a better place. VISIT THEVITALBEAT.CA FOR MORE ON SENIORS
WE COVENANT FAMILY GROWING The Coveat family cotributes to the health ad well-beig of Albertas as three o-profit Catholic orgaizatios rooted i a 150-year legacy of compassioate care ad service i the provice. As siblig orgaizatios, the three separate etities share the values ad missio of the cogregatios of Sisters who fouded health care i Alberta. As leaders ad iovators i their fields, each orgaizatio cotributes to a strategic pla to be of greater service ad to trasform the health care system ad create vibrat commuities of health ad healig. Across the provice, the Coveat family has several sites uder developmet for the ext two years to provide greater service to Alberta s seiors. Coveat Health is Caada s largest Catholic provider of a broad rage of health care services i hospitals ad care cetres i urba ad rural commuities across the provice as a key parter i Alberta s itegrated health system. KILLAM HEALTH CENTRE REDEVELOPMENT Coveat Health is workig with Alberta Health Services o a $13-millio redevelopmet of the Killam Health Cetre campus of care to be completed i 2018. The project icludes ew costructio ad reovatio of the existig log-term care area to create a expaded 50-suite multi-level care cetre. The ew campus is uiquely resposive to rural eeds, allowig seiors eedig differet levels of care to stay i their home commuity ad icorporatig suites that make it possible for couples to stay together.
Coveat Care is a major provider of supportive livig, log-term care ad hospice services i Alberta, respodig to the growig ad chagig eeds of a agig populatio ad offerig iovative work ad care eviromets where residets ad care teams work, thrive ad grow. ST. TERESA PLACE St. Teresa Place i ortheast Calgary, opeig i March 2017, will provide a supportive ad a peaceful home for 52 idividuals eedig specialized demetia care. Offerig idividual ad couples suites, the commuity will also serve aother 198 seiors requirig supportive care. The $60.5-millio 4-storey cetre received fudig from the Alberta Govermet s Affordable Supportive Livig Iitiative (ASLI). Coveat Livig is a private, o-profit orgaizatio providig housig optios for seiors i warm, welcomig commuities that support idepedece ad active livig. EVANSTON SUMMIT Located o the same campus as St. Marguerite ad Holy Cross Maors i orth-cetral Calgary, this retiremet livig commuity has recetly opeed i fall 2016. The complex features 121 oe- ad two-bedroom apartmets for idividuals ad couples 55 years of age ad over. VILLA MARIE EXPANSION Coveat Care will expad services i 2018 at Villa Marie i Red Deer, addig 60 ew log-term care suites to the supportive livig commuity with the support of ASLI fudig from the Alberta Govermet.
WE COVENANT FAMILY HIGHLIGHTS Ispired by our missio of service, we have worked with our parters to be of greater service ad make a differece i the lives of Albertas towards our visio of trasformig health care ad creatig vibrat commuities of health ad healig. Coveat Health participated i Alberta Health Services 2030 Plaig for the Edmoto Zoe, which icluded Master Plaig for the Misericordia Commuity Hospital. The Alberta Govermet has aouced $10 millio to support further Misericordia plaig. A joit orgaizatioal structure was established for Coveat Care ad Coveat Livig to support collaboratio ad leverage stregths of each orgaizatio uder ew Presidet Truma Severso. Services were expaded at St. Michael s Health Cetre i Lethbridge with the opeig of 24 ew supportive livig suites. The Alberta Govermet aouced a expasio at Villa Marie i Red Deer to serve 60 seiors eedig log-term care. Workig with the Missioary Oblates of Mary Immaculate, Coveat Care opeed Foyer Lacombe to provide log-term ad hospice care i St. Albert. Chateau Vitalie i Beaumot became a member of Coveat Care ad the program expaded to provide supportive livig for 49 seiors. Redevelopmet was completed o a Metal Health uit ad a ew, expaded, family-cetred Neoatal Itesive Care Uit at the Misericordia Commuity Hospital i areas damaged by a 2013 flood. Coveat Health was desigated by Ethisphere as a World s Most Ethical Compay the oly Caadia orgaizatio amog 131 hoorees globally. For the third cosecutive year, Coveat Health was amed oe of Alberta s Top Employers. Our Palliative Istitute partered with atioal orgaizatios o Palliative Care Matters, a atioal cosesus developmet iitiative, to advace a Caadia strategy for palliative care. The Help Shape Seiors Care iitiative, led by our Network for Excellece i Seiors Health ad Welless, egaged 1,200 people olie to gather isights ito care that hoours seiors. We received atioal recogitio from Osteoporosis Caada for implemetatio of the Fractured Liaiso Service, which supports hip fracture patiets who have osteoporosis. We implemeted a Patiet ad Family Advisor pilot project focused o the goal of effectively icorporatig the perspective of those we serve i improvig care ad service. We lauched The Vital Beat, a digital ews source for timely, credible health iformatio ad ews focused o patiets ad residets (TheVitalBeat.ca). Coveat Health lauched e-people, a provice-wide system to improve huma resource efficiecies ad give all employees access to their ow employmet iformatio ad data. Coveat Health cotiues to demostrate excellece i quality improvemet, meetig 95 per cet of applicable criteria i our aual survey visit by Accreditatio Caada, maitaiig the Accredited with Exemplary Stadig status. Coveat Care completed its iaugural Accreditatio survey, receivig a Primer Award, the highest possible award for a Primer Survey achievig 92 per cet of the stadards.
WE COVENANT FAMILY SERVICE CAPACITY 977 COVENANT HEALTH ACUTE C BEDS 1,512 COVENANT HEALTH CONTINUING C BEDS The Coveat family provides acute care, cotiuig care ad idepedet livig services at 24 facilities i 15 commuities across the provice. 534 COVENANT C CONTINUING C BEDS 11 8 COVENANT LIVING SUITES Boyville Health Cetre Youville Home Foyer Lacombe Chateau Vitalie Mary Immaculate Care Cetre Edmoto Geeral Cotiuig Care Cetre Misericordia Commuity Hospital Grey Nus Commuity Hospital St. Joseph s Auxiliary Hospital Sait-Thomas Villa Caritas St. Joseph s Geeral Hospital St. Mary s Hospital Killam Health Cetre Villa Marie Our Lady of the Rosary Hospital St. Mary s Health Care Cetre Baff Mieral Sprigs Hospital Holy Cross Maor St. Marguerite Maor St. Joseph s Home St. Michael s Health Cetre St. Therese Villa Martha s House
WE COVENANT FAMILY FACTS & FIGURES COVENANT HEALTH 11,120 EMPLOYEES 2,536 VOLUNTEERS 195,689 VOLUNTEER HOURS 812 PRIME PHYSICIANS 1,314 ADDITIONAL PHYSICIANS* 530,566 RESIDENT DAYS 324,789 ACUTE PATIENT DAYS 195,649 EMERGENCY VISITS 417,083 OUTPATIENT VISITS 44,904 SURGERY CASES 9,867 DELIVERIES 260,064 DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING EXAMS 3,236,225 LABORATORY TESTS *These physicias also have privileges to care for patets ad residets i our facilities COVENANT C 568 EMPLOYEES 177,542 RESIDENT DAYS 148 VOLUNTEERS 5,063 VOLUNTEER HOURS COVENANT FAMILY 1/10 EMERGENCY VISITS IN ALBERTA are to a Coveat Health facility 1/4 PHYSICIANS IN ALBERTA have privileges to provide care at a Coveat Health site 1/5 ALBERTA BABIES BORN at a Coveat Health hospital 119 BEDS ACROSS THE PROVINCE providig palliative ad ed-of-life care 254 BEDS ACROSS THE PROVINCE dedicated to carig for those with metal illess
WE COVENANT HEALTH FINANCIALS WE COVENANT C FINANCIALS $856 Millio 2015-16 COVENANT HEALTH ANNUAL OPERATING BUDGET $39 Millio 2015-16 COVENANT C ANNUAL OPERATING BUDGET GOOD STEWARDSHIP I 2015/16 Coveat Health met or exceeded overall service activity set out i our Cooperatio ad Service Agreemet with Alberta Health Services, which outlies such aual service level requiremets as surgery cases, laboratory tests, deliveries, ad emergecy visits as part of our fudig allocatio. I respose to curret ecoomic challeges, a prudet fiacial pla has bee developed to address a $9M deficit i 2015-16 ad achieve a balaced budget by 2018. GOOD STEWARDSHIP Coveat Care is committed to the wise use of available resources to provide quality care ad service ad to create commuities of care where residets ad teams thrive. I 2015-16, Coveat Care operated six sites, offerig supportive livig, log-term care ad hospice care, ad met its service requiremets withi fudig allocatios. SALARIES & BENEFITS $639,546,000 75% SALARIES & BENEFITS $17,359,000 45% DRUGS & GASES $16,011,000 2% MEDICAL & SURGICAL SUPPLIES $40,879,000 5% DRUGS & GASES $0 0% MEDICAL & SURGICAL SUPPLIES $350,000 0.9% OTHER CONTRACTED SERVICES $54,014,000 6% OTHER $89,083,000 10% AMORTIZATION - CAPITAL EQUIPMENT $6,847,000 1% AMORTIZATION - FACILITIES AND IMPROVEMENTS $10,229,000 1% OTHER CONTRACTED SERVICES $11,492,000 30% OTHER $6,114,000 16% AMORTIZATION - CAPITAL EQUIPMENT $312,000 0.8% AMORTIZATION - FACILITIES AND IMPROVEMENTS $12,734,000 33% Coveat Health 2015-16 Audited Fiacial Statemets are available at CoveatHealth.ca Sigificat amouts icluded i Other: utilities, food ad dairy supplies, buildig ret, housekeepig, other cliical supplies, buildig ad grouds expeses, equipmet expeses, office supplies, travel, mior equipmet purchases, isurace, liceses, fees, memberships, educatio ad telecommuicatios, iterest o log-term debt.
COVENANT S FACILITIES COVENANT HEALTH Baff Baff Mieral Sprigs Hospital Boyville Boyville Health Cetre Camrose St. Mary s Hospital Castor Our Lady of the Rosary Hospital Edmoto Edmoto Geeral Cotiuig Care Cetre Grey Nus Commuity Hospital Misericordia Commuity Hospital St. Joseph s Auxiliary Hospital Villa Caritas Killam Killam Health Cetre Lethbridge St. Michael s Health Cetre St. Therese Villa Medicie Hat St. Joseph s Home Mudare Mary Immaculate Care Cetre St. Albert Youville Home Trochu St. Mary s Health Care Cetre Vegreville St. Joseph s Geeral Hospital COVENANT C Beaumot Chateau Vitalie Calgary Holy Cross Maor St. Marguerite Maor St. Albert Foyer Lacombe Edmoto Sait-Thomas Red Deer Villa Marie COVENANT LIVING Lethbridge Martha s House 2015-16 BOARD OF DIRECTORS Ed Stelmach, Chair Raymod Peter (Ray) Mack, FCA, Vice Chair Deis E. Grat Sr. Mary Corita Heid, RSM Richard Leaves Shirley McClella Catherie Rooze Most. Rev. Richard Smith, Archbishop of Edmoto, Ex-Officio Patrick Dumelie, Presidet ad CEO 12 commuity boards represet the commuities we serve, advocatig o their behalf ad providig strategic advice to Coveat s Board of Directors. FOUNDATIONS Our Foudatios are active i their commuities supportig Coveat Health s work. Last year, our 11 foudatios raised $9.84M. The Coveat Foudatio was formed i April 2016 to support 17 Coveat Health ad Coveat Care sites, as well as Coveat s strategic priorities provicially. To fid out more about how you ca support our work, cotact your local facility. COVENANT S PROVINCIAL OFFICE 3033-66 Street Edmoto, Alberta T6K 4B2 780.735.9000 CoveatHealth.ca CoveatCare.ca