Health committee  Correct.

Health committee  First of all, my department is complicated, because it includes safety, security, parking and staff health. I'll set the parking aside and just talk about safety, security and staff health. If I look at that, I would say our annual budget for those groups is in the range of about

Health committee  Sure. I'm just pulling up the number of flags that we've applied. Within Ontario hospitals, you're required to keep track of this information so that you can communicate the risk back and forth. At the Ottawa Hospital, we track whether violence has been prevalent between family m

Health committee  Thank you, and I thank Ms. Silas for that compliment as well. We've been working hard on this issue. The key thing for us has been, first of all, collaboration. There is collaboration with front-line staff across the board, whether it's a physician, a nurse, a clerk or a houseke

Health committee  Can I add to that as well?

Health committee  Perhaps this was said and I didn't hear it, but I would mention two things. The first is a means of summoning assistance, particularly if you're alone, by which I mean something digital or a radio or a panic button, something that will go to a security office or a supervisor or s

Health committee  Sure. I think that's a really important point. This is something that we've tried to focus a lot of attention on. You heard me say that we had 58 injuries in the last year. To add to that, we had another 530 incident reports that were reported just as a “good catch”, meaning ther

Health committee  Thank you. There are two things of relevance for us in terms of thinking about the prevalence of violence in health care. The first is that it feels like it's been on the rise in the last few years, but we really think that's just because people are reporting it more and that th

Health committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair and committee members, for providing me the opportunity to speak to you today about workplace violence in health care. My name is Thomas Hayes. I'm the Director of Safety, Security, Parking and Staff Health at The Ottawa Hospital. I've been at the hospital