Atrium Building Grand Opening February 20 - 22, 2014

A Message of Congratulations

“A proud member of the community for more than 100 years, Waypoint has a distinct history of providing excellent patient care for those coping with mental illness. I am very pleased that more patients will be supported on their road to recovery for many years to come thanks to your redevelopment. Good things certainly do happen at Waypoint.

Congratulations!”

Deb Matthews

Minister of Health and Long-Term Care

Advancing Understanding. Improving Lives.

Waypoint is our region’s speciality hospital for mental health and addiction treatment and care. Throughout its history local residents from Simcoe County, Muskoka and surrounding communities have benefited from the expertise of the hospital’s highly trained staff. Regional services include six inpatient programs for adults and seniors, and a variety of outpatient services for youth to seniors. The hospital is part of the broader system of mental health and addiction services partnering with many hospitals and community organizations, and supported by the North Simcoe Muskoka Local Health Integration Network.

Waypoint is also home to the province’s only maximum secure forensic mental health hospital. This 160-bed hospital has been providing treatment and care to some of the province’s most vulnerable throughout its history.

As one of four speciality mental health centres in the province, Waypoint’s role includes clinical services, health care leadership, research, education and teaching, and supporting advocacy to advance understanding of mental illness.

Thanks to the efforts of many, the end of a long journey to an improved environment for the people we serve is in reach. Thirty years ago our predecessors at the former Mental Health Centre Penetanguishene began the conversation to replace the Oak Ridge building, and eventually Brébeuf. This visionary work and advocacy has led to a beautiful new forensic hospital and integrated campus. We are honoured to be part of the dream that often seemed so far away, finally becoming reality.

Good Things Happen every day at Waypoint in the services our expert staff provide for patients and clients in hospital and in the community. Our heartfelt thanks is extended to Infrastructure Ontario and the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care for their support for this much needed improvement to patient treatment and care, and for believing in the vision for a new forensic mental health hospital.

While much change is happening around us, what stays the same is Waypoint’s commitment to our patients and the care we provide. Our new Atrium Building offers

a much more welcoming and comfortable space for people on their treatment and recovery journey, the latest state-of-the-art technology to support treatment and care, and an improved work environment for our staff. We are striving to achieve

Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Gold certification, which will further enhance a healthy

hospital.

Our hospital has been a proud member of the community since 1904, caring for people with mental illness and supporting their journey to recovery. Today, we are pleased to continue that tradition.

Waypoint President and CEO Carol Lambie and Chair of the Board of Directors Betty Valentine

The Legacy of Mental Health Care continues…

Since it’s beginnings in the early 1900’s, Waypoint has been a community leader in mental health care, growing in the 1930’s with the addition of the province’s only maximum secure forensic mental health hospital. The new Atrium building is yet another milestone in this strong history.

Tradition is Cherished….

….Change is Welcomed

Folger Adams keys and metal gates at the front

entrance Transportation staff drive food trays to Oak Ridge, then dietary staff carry them upstairs to

serve patients, three times a day

Electronic visitor sign-in

On-unit dining rooms where

patients have more selection

Welcoming hospital entrance

and lobby with information desk

Warm, inviting care desk

Patients handed a prepared tray to eat in small, multi-purpose area used for both

dining and relaxation

A Message From the Vice Presidents

It’s hard to believe we finally have a brand new hospital facility, replacing both the Oak Ridge and Brébeuf buildings. These buildings served us well for many years but have, for some time, been woefully inadequate. This is especially true of Oak Ridge, which has presented countless challenges for staff attempting to provide quality mental health care to some of our province’s most disadvantaged and vulnerable men.

Tenacity is a virtue. Leaders of the Mental Health Centre Penetanguishene advocated for nearly 30 years to have the Oak Ridge facility replaced. Previous Administrators George Kytayko and Sharon Zwicker, Psychiatrist-in-Chief Dr. Russel Fleming and others deserve much credit for what we now have. Municipal, regional and provincial politicians, senior staff in various ministries, and numerous advocacy organizations were lobbied. We saw the creation of countless reviews and reports. We toured successive Health Ministers through the old facility to impress upon them the need to replace the buildings. Finally it paid off; as perseverance so often does.

The transition from 19th century Oak Ridge, to 21st Century Atrium is going to be a bit of a shock. After all, we’ve skipped an entire century! Our expert staff members have long provided compassionate mental health services to patients in our care. Now, finally, those services will be provided in a hospital built to our requirements and uniquely suited to the purpose.

Dr. Brian Jones, Vice President, Provincial Forensic Programs and Deborah Duncan, Vice President, Regional Programs congratulate Robert Savage, Vice President, Redevelopment on a job well done.

Thank you to our construction partners for making our dream a reality!

HEALTH AND LONG-TERM CARE MINISTRY OF

The Road to Here…

When Waypoint was given the green light to build the Atrium Building, and shovels finally went into the ground, the intense work wasn’t just conducted on the construction site. Nine planning teams were organized to develop comprehensive plans for the transition from Oak Ridge and Brébeuf to the Atrium.

Details ranged from dishware, schedules for the elevators, furniture and the ever-important patient move planning. A year and a half flew by for those involved in the planning, and it’s because of their commitment to Waypoint we are able to have a smooth transition.

Ted Symons, President

Volunteer Association

Pearl Vallee

Ken Wilson

Bord Voutt

Sandra Celikors

Dave Desroches

Margaret George

Waypoint Centre for Mental Health Care

Senior Leadership Team

Carol Lambie, President and CEO

Janet Harris, Executive Vice President Clinical Services and Chief Nursing Executive

Dr. Brian Jones, Vice President Provincial Forensic Programs

Deborah Duncan, Vice President Regional Programs

Dr. Howard Barbaree, Vice President Research and Academics

Rob Desroches, Interim Vice President Human Resources and Organizational Development

Lorraine Smith, Vice President Corporate Services

Dr. Jamie Karagianis, Psychiatrist-in-Chief

Robert Savage, Vice President Redevelopment

Board of Directors

Betty Valentine, Chair

Roger Robitaille, Vice-Chair

Catharine Bayles

Dr. Edward Connors

Kathleen Finney

Fred Flood

John McCullough

Tracey Rynard

Doris Shirriff

Alison Vallance

Tony Vipond

Dr. Trevor Young

The Future is Now

Our patients and staff will move into the new building in early March. The move-in planning has been underway for a year and a half as staff worked through the details of how to provide care in a new environment, and how to prepare our patients.

Now that construction is complete, the Atrium Building

includes:

A new front entrance and lobby

180 new patient rooms, all 40 square feet larger

A state-of-the-art Diagnostic Imaging and Treatment area

A balance between safety, security, privacy and observation

We are Green!We are Green!

While we know the Atrium Building is a huge improvement for patients and staff, it is also good for the environment. Congratulations to Cannon Design and the Integrated Team Solutions consortium for keeping us on track to achieve Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design or LEED Gold certification.

While you may not be able to see the environmental design inside the building, you can see it on the outside with one quarter of the roof covered in slow-growth grass. The rest of the building is constructed of white material that reflects the sun’s energy and also keeps the hospital’s temperature stable.

The building includes specialized plumbing and a geo-exchange field which uses the earth for heating and cooling.

Information Desk inside the lobby to help direct you

Patients can visit with family in our comfortable visitors centre, and café seating outside the complex

Improved gym and pool for patient recreation and community to use

Spiritual Centre with labyrinth, chapel, sweat lodge and sacred fire

Joanne’s Story

Joanne’s smile is bright today as she sits in the common area of the Brébeuf Building, excited about her future as a college student.

“I just finished the chemistry course at Georgian College,” she said with pride. “The staff at Waypoint helped me register for the next course in computers. I really want to be a Pharmacy Technician.”

Joanne has been in the Regional Forensic Program at Waypoint for a few months, sharing a small room with two other women. The inadequate building also means a rush in the morning for the limited showers. While Joanne agrees the building has its fair share of limitations, the care staff are what really make a difference to her recovery.

“The staff keep it fun here,” she says. “The group activities make it so much better here you don’t even realize the limitations the building has, and sometimes don’t even realize you’re in a hospital.”

Joanne won’t be going to the Atrium Building, instead she’ll be going to a group home as the next step in her recovery. She’s been inside the new facility and is in awe of the vast improvements that will greet her peers, such as private rooms with views of the bay and natural light flooding most areas.

“It’s much better for everyone. It’s safe, people can cook or read or relax, and it’s really beautiful.”

“People who are living with a mental illness need people like you and I to be their

advocates. Finally, we as a society are starting to talk about mental illness, now it’s time to act.”

Dr. Jamie Karagianis, Psychiatrist-in-Chief

Advancing Understanding

Q What is Forensic Psychiatry?

A Forensic Psychiatry is a branch of medicine which focuses on the needs of persons with

mental health problems who have become involved with the criminal justice system. Forensic Psychiatrists also assist the courts and specialized mental health tribunals by providing expert opinions, evidence and recommendations.

Q How can a building help in a patient’s recovery??

A A building may facilitate recovery from mental health difficulties. A building that is bright and

airy, and with lots of space for therapies and social, educational, vocational, and spiritual activities can help make a person’s recovery more likely. Clinicians too are more likely to be effective when their working environment is a therapeutic, rather than a merely custodial one.

Q How does Waypoint advance the understanding? of mental illness?

A Waypoint is engaged in the study of a variety of clinical interventions focused on recovery from

mental health difficulties. We also reach out to the community-at-large, offering presentations on a variety of topics related to mental health and recovery. As a teaching hospital, with several academic affiliations, we regularly host students in medicine, psychiatry, nursing and other mental health disciplines. Many Waypoint staff hold formal academic appointments at various universities and colleges in Ontario.

Waypoint has a long history of conducting world-renowned, award-winning research. The research conducted at Waypoint, formerly Mental Health Centre Penetanguishene, during the last few decades has helped define forensic mental health practices and has been utilized across the globe to shape assessment and treatment strategies.

In the summer of 2013, the Waypoint Research Institute was launched, marking a new era of mental health research in Penetanguishene. The Institute builds on a strong foundation and international reputation, connecting to the future. It will allow our research team to expand the scope of their work, directly impacting how we care for patients in the field of mental health.

With a strong foundation and a unique group of staff and patients to collaborate with, research at Waypoint is positioned to shape the future of mental health care, expanding the current focus into four theme areas: Risk Factors and Assessment, Treatment and Transitions, Policy, and Knowledge Translation. The strategy aligns with Waypoint’s Clinical Services Plan and includes strong partnerships with other researchers, academia, hospitals and organizations. Waypoint has a number of partnerships currently in place, including a formal affiliation with the University of Toronto.

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Waypoint Research Institute “The Institute integrates the research team together with the knowledge, translation and education to enhance our existing research excellence, further improving clinical services and providing for better treatment and care for patients and clients.”

Dr. Howard Barbaree, Vice President of Research and Academics, pictured with President and CEO Carol Lambie and John McCullough, Past

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construction begins. 2013

Substantial

Completion

Waypoint has launched a community outreach project to promote mental health, fight stigma and spark discussion about mental health issues. Inspired by the successful community art project undertaken by the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Waypoint has been collaborating with staff, patients and members of the community to create artwork for our hospital. Everyone is encouraged to participate and be a part of a project that marks a new era of mental health care at Waypoint and in our region.

The art project provides an opportunity to work together as a hospital and community, and raise awareness of mental health issues while creating something beautiful to brighten the hallways. These works of art will be designed to tell Waypoint’s story and will be displayed for all of our patients, staff and visitors in the hospital.

To take part in this exciting project, please contact Alison Vallance at artproject@waypointcentre.ca or 705-529-6081.

WAYPOINT

ART PROJECT

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