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November 24, 2021

SUPPORT HEALTH CARE WORKERS WITH A CUSTOM EMAIL

Support Health Care Workers With a Custom Email.

The Chilliwack Citizens for Change and the Chilliwack Kindness Chain have partnered up with community members to share messages of support and respect for our local nurses, doctors, and hospital workers.

Together, we can do even more for them.

Please consider sending a personal email to those with the power to make beneficial changes for health care workers by filling out the form below.

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STEP 1: Start with a customized introduction about your feelings regarding hospitals, doctors, nurses, and care workers. What are your personal thoughts, feelings, connections about the important jobs our nurses, doctors, and care workers are doing? What are you thankful for? *

STEP 2: Doctors, nurses, and healthcare workers have asked us for specific action items that they need. Please select between 2 and 8 of the list items below that you feel should be most prioritized by our government. *

Every time elected officials and hospital management publicly speak out in support of double vaccination, the vaccine mandate for hospital workers and for the vaccine passport, that is helpful. Please continue to show that public support loudly and clearly. Vaccines save lives! Vaccines prevent hospital overcrowding.
A full update on hospital work lines and the creation of more units is needed to resolve congestion to make it easier for site leaders to assign ER and other patients to beds, while making quicker reallocation of staff possible.
Funding new nursing positions to take care of those patients is clearly vital. Healthcare staff are burning out. Nurses in particular are feeling worn down. Critical care nurses (ER and ICU) are quitting nursing or changing to less front line roles in substantial numbers. Of course, this isn’t exclusive to critical care—it's a crisis in all units across BC.
You are likely aware that the Chilliwack General Hospital Emergency Room has been in a staffing crisis for months. This summer, every shift has been 3 or 4 or 5 nurses short. Thus, the ones who show up all have to do the work of two people. Coupled with patient loads increasing on all units, this is not bearable.
Make immediate improvements to programs to help internationally trained health care workers get accredited to work in B.C. We have gaps that need filling while trained professionals are forced to do other work outside of their medical fields. Our system can’t afford to squander these people any longer.
Please create more float nurse positions to fill the gaps and keep our ER safe and to preserve the physical and mental health of our vital staff.
We are short on hospital cleaning staff, and they already work hard, and their work is vital for safety. The recent announcement that the province wants to take back their contracts from Sodexo, which should see an increase or restoration of their wages and benefits, may help. What more can be done to recruit cleaners?
Understaffing is increasing the fear and incidents of assault, both physical and verbal. Nurses have been hit by patients and yelled at by family members. Everyone is on edge and COVID restrictions (which are necessary) are not easy to manage. Adding security may help, but adding medical staff would be much more useful as patient wait times go down, staff are more refreshed, and the quality of care goes up.
We are short on unit clerks, and they have been taking a lot of abuse over the phone; we need to expand their numbers to decrease burnout and increase response times.
Create a variety of recruitment incentives for nurses to move from out of province.
Chilliwack's population is growing a lot faster than our hospital funding. Expanding our CGH ER to better match our ever-growing population, plus the large influx of summer visitors each year, would help.
With so many new developments in Chilliwack our hospital capacity cannot keep pace without CGH expanding. We don’t have the hospital beds that we need for our current population. As we have seen with our schools, even when committing to significant expansion we can fall behind.
Chilliwack General Hospital would benefit from a dedicated psychiatric space in the ER away from the noise but still staffed well.
Developing a program to increase nurse retention; with decreasing conditions, they are leaving the profession, so what can you do to convince them to stay?

STEP 3: Your information

Your Email

If you're interested in having a copy of this email sent to yourself and would like to receive any replies from officials as well, please include your email address below. We will not share this information with anyone.

Your Postal Code

This is to ensure the recipients that you are a local constituent.

By teri@teriwesterby.com

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