May 1, 2025 • 50 mins
In this episode of Prevention Over Prescription with Dr. K, we're joined by Kevin Ford, CEO of Calian, and Ginger Bertrand, Co-Founder of Neue Theory, for an inspiring conversation about building a better tomorrow. They explore the vision behind the new Ottawa Hospital Campus, the innovative technologies that will drive patient care forward, and how cutting-edge solutions are transforming healthcare systems today. Tune in to hear how leadership, collaboration, and bold thinking are helping create a healthier future for all.
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best self. Let's get started, Quard Gastination, we have a
very special episode today. So, as many of you know,
I've been part of the campaign to create Tomorrow, part
of the Outawa Hospital's foundation to create our new campus,
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that special campus. It's not only going to be steate
of the art equipment, but it's going to be a
catalyst for creating improvement in our healthcare system. And this
is a privilege for me because we have two of
our coach chairs in the mix, and why I wanted
to bring them on this week is because they show
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the power of trying to create that better tomorrow by
being an advocate, by being a champion to try and
raise the funds and create a healthcare system that we
really need right now. So first of all, we have
the amazing Gingerbird Trend. She is from GAB Group and
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as you're going to hear about, she has been championing
that next gen approach to the campaign, which has been incredible.
And next to me, I have Kevin Ford, the CEO
Callian who's been an amazing advocate for introductions in terms
of the tech sector. This is really special, guys, So
thanks for joining us on the show.
Speaker 4 (05:13):
So happy to be here, really happy to be here.
Speaker 5 (05:15):
Thanks for having us.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Yeah, exactly, we're excited. We're excited, yes, And like I
got to tell you, two folks, the energy when we're
all together, Like we don't know each other from before,
but the second that we get together at these functions,
it's I feel like it's magnetic and ginger. Maybe let's
just start with what is your why? Because you are busy,
(05:36):
We're just talking about all the stuff that you got
going on, which is which is incredible. The companies. You
said you're an AP, which I don't even know the
acronym for executive producer is why I'm in physician, but
an EP for a show? But what led you to
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want to be part of the campaign?
Speaker 5 (06:02):
How could I say?
Speaker 3 (06:02):
No?
Speaker 6 (06:03):
This is the most transformative campaign the city's ever seen.
It's going to be wild like this was. It's not
only exciting, but it's important and we need to do it. So,
you know, I just happen to have experience talking to
that next gen as you mentioned off the top and
learning you know, knowing that social media piece, and I
have a lot of clients who are, you know, in
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their twenties and thirties, and I just know how they speak,
and I just thought there was a huge opportunity to
get them involved because, as we know, it's not just
about those major donors, right, It's about getting the whole
city involved. And I think we need to start with
that younger generation so that they know that this hospital
isn't just for them, but it's also like for their parents,
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and they're going to be the ones navigating it. They're
gonna be the stewards of the hospital, and their parents
are there, but then they're going to have like this
amazing technology. I mean, they're saying it's going to be
one of the most technologically advanced hospitals in North America.
This is insane to me. So how could I say no?
Speaker 5 (06:59):
How could I not want to be part of this project?
Speaker 2 (07:02):
One hundred percent agree? As many of you have heard
me say, this is something that is generational, and I
want my kids to be able to say, you know,
dad and his colleagues were part of something special. But
I got to asked before we jump on to Kevin,
what what can be that message to the youth, because
I'll just put myself as when I was twenty years
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old and somebody told me, you know, there's a new
building coming up, a new hospital. I don't know if
I'd get too excited about that, because I feel when
I was twenty I felt like I was invincible. When
I was twenty five, I felt invicible. So how do
we how do we reach them?
Speaker 6 (07:40):
Yeah, it's sort of like who cares right as well?
Like I think I was probably there too, But I
think that there is I think that demographic once they
see their favorite influencers and content creator creators and people
that they look up to sharing and posting about something
that they care about, there tends to be the gravitational
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pull of well I want to get involved in that
as well, or that seems really interesting.
Speaker 5 (08:06):
I'm going to learn more about it.
Speaker 6 (08:07):
And you know I've said this before, you guys know that,
you know, I believe that every dollar matters. And somebody
told me this one time when she couldn't give a
lot to donate and she.
Speaker 5 (08:17):
Was told, you know, you never know what dollar is going.
Speaker 6 (08:20):
To save a life. And I think that's so important
to remember. And I think teaching, teaching. Sort of this
empathy and volunteering and giving back even in small amounts
at a young age is so crucial to them. Having,
you know, adults in their forties and fifties who want
to give back, and not that they're feeling pressured to
give back, but they become a real philanthropist and their
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advocates and their community champions.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
I'll never forget when you mentioned that that you don't
know if that's the dollar that's going to make the difference, and.
Speaker 5 (08:52):
I just got chilled.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
I know, I exactly, and I truly feel that's the
message to the youth is like you can and make
a difference because I feel personally like they're looking for meaning,
they're looking for purpose, and this is a gift that
can provide that for them. Kevin, You've been part of
the Ottawa Hospital fundraising for years, and so I'm curious
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how did it start for you in general when it
came to supporting the Ottawa Hospital.
Speaker 4 (09:21):
Great question, because sometimes when I get asked that question,
it feels like I have been involved for years and
it's been great, and it's been a journey of just
absolute passion and love. So for me, I was born
and raised in Ottawa. So I'm one of those few folks.
I think maybe the lost to the tech execut that
is actually born and raised here and can talk to
me later. Maybe I did have enough, you know, goomshom
my life to go out and do other things.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
But I've always loved Otawa. Number two is under twenty.
It's interesting.
Speaker 4 (09:45):
I had already had my first surgery at the Ottawa
Hospital when I was under twenty, but the motor as
that happened when I was out, you know, so I
had had an experience at the hospital even at under twenty, right,
And since then, you know, I've had two or three
surgeries personally, and raise the family here in Ottawa and
recognize the importance of healthcare. How many times have we
all taken that for granted When it's not working, we
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always want to complain about it, but we all count
on it. So for me, what an opportunity to your
point that we do that legacy and for me personally,
why I have been involved is simple. It's something. I think,
it's the fabric of the community. It is something if
we don't have it. I want my family, my boys.
I have four boys, I want them to raise their kids.
I want their kids to raise kids. I want them
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all to have the opportunity that I've had to have
access to incredible health care, world leading healthcare. So that's
number one passion. Number two is that when you actually
think about our opportunity as a city, how lucky are
we do we have the employment base that we do,
the companies that we have, world leading companies, world leading
companies in so many domains. And what an opportunity to
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give the opportunity to then to give into this innovation agenda,
into this hospital. So I see it as a community leader.
I see it as a business leader. I see it
as a resident, I see it as a parent. I
see it through every fabric of my life. That's why
I'm sitting here today, and that's why it's been such
a journey of just absolute joy working with the Foundation
on this.
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My goodness, I'm still a little bit stuck on the
four boys, to be honest with you, as a data three,
having a fourth, I would have lost my mind driving
in and of itself. Well exactly, Yes, yes it's awesome.
But yeah, this is a real good point that I
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don't think we emphasize enough in terms of the ecosystem
that this will create as well. Righty, you mentioned how
not only from a healthcare perspective this is important, but
to this city, to the common person, like either of you,
I guess I'm putting this out there. It's like map
it out, like what once this campus is established? Maybe
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I'll ask Kevin, like how how does this affect our economy?
How does this affect the common person?
Speaker 4 (12:21):
I think for me, the one thing we probably don't
talk enough about because I think some people look at
the hospital as bricks and mortar, as a physical building,
and obviously it will be and if you drive by
it even now, you're starting to see just the size
of this building is going to be massive. It's going
to be so impressive as a physical building. But I
think the more important thing is the word you mentioned.
They're the ecosystem and the world. The Outawa Hospital plays
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as a leader in the community, not just for that building,
but for all the campuses of the Autawa Hospital. They
think about the affiliation with areas like chemphill and Smith's
fall as a whole kid. So it's a community ecosystem
led by the Ottawa Hospital and I think we probably
should talk more about that because, you know, only donating
to build a new hospital, you're building to strengthen that ecosystem.
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And I think that is something I've come to learn
working with cam Love and yourself, you know, an incredible
physician in our community.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
How lucky are we to have you here?
Speaker 4 (13:13):
Is that it's not just about what walks into the hospitals,
what walks into our community. And I think that's something
again giving and supporting this foundation, you're part of that absolutely.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
And Jina, just thinking about that Next Gen, do you
think that's some message that that wrote that they can
relate to.
Speaker 6 (13:29):
Yeah, I think you know, once you get next gen
is you know, different age categories. You got some younger millennials,
you got some older millennials, you got some gen Z
in there. So everybody's at a different stage in their life.
Even if you know next gen umbrella. Some of them
are thinking about where do I want to live, what
health care, infrastructure, trans and infrastructure does that city have
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where you know or even you know entrepreneurs looking to
start up a new company. I mean the time is
when you're in your thirties and you've got that you know,
fresh blood, and you've got the desire and the drive
to to spend you know, one hundred and twenty hours
working on your business and getting it started, and you
want to set up in a community that has all
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of the infrastructure in place and that you know that
you your family, your parents are going to be taken
care of, that you can get to work. Like the
infrastructure is just so important to a city and a
community and to build that.
Speaker 5 (14:24):
So I think that part like the next gen. A
lot of the.
Speaker 6 (14:27):
Next gens are looking at that as well, you know,
where they want to raise their families. I think having
a hospital an ecosystem the way you know Kevin was
talking about it is so important and you're right, Kevin,
we don't talk enough about that, and I think that
is quite literally what the campaign is about, you know,
creating tomorrow. It's a new evolution of how we're looking
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at healthcare. And you know, I'm not the person to
speak on it, but every time I've heard you know,
Cameron Love or Tim speak about it, I'm just like, Wow,
wouldn't this have been great like ten years ago, you know,
being able to access smaller hospitals for non emergency surgeries
and like using all the operating room and spaces and
stuff so that there's not.
Speaker 5 (15:12):
Such a backlog. I don't know, correct me if I'm wrong,
doctor K.
Speaker 6 (15:16):
But you know these are the changes we want to see, right,
I mean.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
Let's be honest. Like I was kind of saying in
the intro, this is what drew me to the campaign,
was you really want to be able to be part
of the solution. You want to be able to be
part of the solution when our healthcare system is currently
in crisis. And I do not want to overdramatize things,
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but this is the worse I've seen it personally, when
I see that a fifth of our city doesn't have
family physicians. I see the long wait times and emerge
at times. I've seen people waiting for elective surgeries that
unfortunately they get worse. And so all these these unfortunate
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circumstances around our healthcare system. It's a reality, and I
think what we're trying to create will be the solution.
I really think that this will be such a massive catalyst.
And as Kevin alluded to, we have the people, we
have the energy. This is why I'm really excited about this,
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and I'm hoping. I'm hoping people could feed off that energy.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
And like one of the things that I noticed during
the pandemic as an example, is we had a similar
purpose and then the city and the country rallied around that.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
And I'm wondering, Ginger, is is there a way we
could create that here? Like I know we're trying to,
but is there a way of creating more that urgency?
Because I feel the urgency as a as a healthcare provider,
I must say, like, I'm I want us to make
that leap sooner than later. But yeah, I don't. I
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don't know if you feel like we need to have
that higher level.
Speaker 6 (17:06):
Of urgency and camaraderie and like, yeah, like coming together.
You're asking me from a marketing perspective, I.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
Mean, at the doors open, you know what I mean,
the door's open, Like maybe it is from a marketing perspective,
maybe it is from just a genuine message. I don't know,
but I'm not sure if that message also comes across
as like whoa like this is where spreccful times already.
Speaker 5 (17:28):
Yeah, I think there's two things.
Speaker 6 (17:30):
I mean, I think one, we haven't necessarily been talking
about the project enough.
Speaker 5 (17:35):
Or reaching you know, beyond what we've been.
Speaker 6 (17:39):
Comfortable with so far. So I think that's why, you know,
we forgot to say off the top, we're missing one
of our co chairs. Yeah, Clark, the president of Inflector.
But you know, and we you know Tim who is
our big boss you know, at the foundation. He brought
us all together because we sort of represent different pillars
of the community. And I think that was really important
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because we have expertise in reaching and talking to.
Speaker 5 (18:03):
Those different pillars of the community.
Speaker 6 (18:05):
And I think that's one way to start getting you know,
everyone together, and you know, to pool sort of our
resources and start reaching out to everyone so that hey,
they know about the project, B, they know about the updates.
Speaker 5 (18:20):
See they know how.
Speaker 6 (18:21):
Important it is, and B and D we need to
create positive sentiment around it because right now, as you said,
like healthcare, you haven't ever seen it so bad. So
we really need to figure out how to communicate and
how to how to communicate the changes we're doing and
why they're going to have positive impact and why people
should get involved in the campaign.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
Yeah, and that's a really good point. And I'm also
wondering too, KEIVI wh we talked about this a little bit,
but current state of our I don't know what you
call it, certain state of affairs with the tariffts and
what's going on down south. I feel like the urgency
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is even higher actually to have that support. And I
don't know if you feel the same way in general
about like where we're at because of the economic climate,
but because in some ways I'm scared because people are
going to feel more of a constraint to try and
support something like this. But yeah, I mean maybe an
open question like how do you how do you overcome this,
(19:27):
the our current economic climate right now?
Speaker 4 (19:30):
It's a great question, you know. I literally talked to
two other CEOs this morning, Canadian CEOs as air maneuvering,
and we're all, you know, dodging and weaving what is
happening in the US and just the global the global
reality we're dealing with on on the macro level, whether
cus global conflict, climate change, you know, tariffs, all of that.
So I think we can say as as business leaders,
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it's a it's very complex time. But I think through COVID,
through all the different areas, we recognized resilience. And I think,
if anything, we need to just celebrate the resilience we
have as Canadian entrepreneurs, as Canadian businesses that we have
managed through some pretty strong headwinds over the last couple
of years. And look at us talking today with excitement
about the future. So I look at this as another
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one of those maybe the winds gusting a bit harder
right now, but we're going to get through this.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
Number one.
Speaker 4 (20:17):
Number two is the other thing I hope people recognize.
If you drive by the campus, this is no longer
a concept. Yeah, there's shovels in the ground, there's parking
garages being built to accommodate the workers that are going
to be required to build the hospital. And I don't
know if you've driven by lately, but I am blown
away by how just large the parking lots are. And
so we're just going to be room for the hospital, right.
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So I think it's important business leaders, the people that
our public understand that This is a don't stop moment.
We cannot stop. We have to keep going, and we're
going to have to all dig deep and find ways
to support the hospital, whether it's personally, whether it's through
employee campaigns, engaging your staff, engaging your families, engaging your friends,
having these type of discussions, because we just can't stop. Like,
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I don't think the opportunity for us to say, as well, listen,
well we're going to wait out the administration down south
and four years will start digging again, Like, that's not
the opportunity here. The opportunity is to keep going, to
thrive in this environment, to build that hospital. So then
when we get through all of this, how good are
we going to feel that when the headwinds tuned down
a bit, we're looking at a brand new hospital, a
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brand new hospital that's going to be technologically advanced, that's
going to connect the community, be part of that ecosystem,
and then frankly, you know, hopefully be something of a
center of pride. And every time I drive by the
Civic Hospital one hundred and some odd years ago, there's
people like us sitting around somewhere talking about their passion
to build that hospital and at that point. I can't
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remember what the budget was, but it was massive at
the time, and I'm sure there's thinking there's no way
we can do this in the size of Autawa, and
they did. And what's the impact that Hospital Loone has
had in this community over the last hundred years. That's
the legacy we all have, our opportunity for so long.
Answer to your question is there is headwinds, we can't.
We have to acknowledge that it raised almost sixty seventy
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percent of the funding already. So congratulations and thank you
to all those who are support it. Thank you, thank you,
thank you, thank you. But we're at that final stretch
and we just we just can't let off that urgency.
We can't let off that it will be built. So
let's all dig in. Let's not use the macro environment
as a reason we can pause, because we can't. But
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recognizing that and making sure our discussions reflect the fact
that maybe people are having some challenges, but let's still
have the discussion.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
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I love it, and I mean both of you could
attest to this. As a physician in going through COVID,
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you had some adversity, But the entrepreneurial space, this is
where I personally see a ton of resilience because you've
got to go through the ups and downs of the economy.
There's I don't know any entrepreneur that hasn't failed at
some point, right And I guess long winded question is
(23:30):
you've been You've been a key component of opening doors
and knocking on doors or some of our high tech folks.
And as you said so eloquently said, this is the
time to not quit. But what can further be the
message to that sector why they should be lending the
support at this time?
Speaker 4 (23:52):
It's it's something what I what I recognize frankly recently
and part of the reason I agreed to be co chairs.
I'm not sure we've recognized, as Younger said, I'm not
sure we've recognized the full scope of the hospital away
from the bricks and mortar, which is critically important. I'm
not I'm not downplaying that at all, but the innovation opportunity,
you know, as a city that is thriving an innovation
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with all the companies over hundred companies, I think it
can out of North alone. Now you know the entrepreneur's
AI companies Dave Ross video just came up a call
with you know, the the folks that are innovating at
a global scale right now out of Ottawa is incredible.
And again I'm credibly proud as an Ottawa, as an Autawa.
't know if that's word, but we'll go with it.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
Wani Wanian.
Speaker 4 (24:32):
All right, Wa, that did the word folks, you've heard
it today auta Ani. But I think for me that
one thing I'm recognizing is I don't think we've maybe
talked enough about the innovation going into the hospital and
the opportunity for companies to participate, whether it's supporting it
through an innovation program, whether it's funding directed to innovation. Well,
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a lot of people don't realize that the province is
and all those you know, all the money that's being
raised by the province or is given to this is
for the bricks and mortar. Everything in the hospital comes
through the community. Yeah, and that's the beds, that's the equipment,
that's everything as well as the innovation. So what I
wanted to do with the tech community is exposed the
innovation agenda because I'm blown away by the just the
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state of the art nature of it, but the opportunity
for innovation to connect the community through the hospital as
a main hub that is massive. And the good news
is twenty years ago that would have been tough, now
totally feasible. We see now the hospital's connecting through the technology.
We're seeing the opportunity to use AI. We're talking about
machine learning to improve the system that's broken. So I
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want our tech community to be excited about the opportunity
to be part of that.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
Listen. I I see this as a feature of like
the solutions for our problems. And you know I've been
on the show a few times saying this like this
is why for my own department, I'm leaning on the
innovation at a hospital level. This is why I'm getting
excited about it as a fundraiser. This is why I'm
getting excited about it because we're in a different world
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now with the AI when it comes to efficiency, when
it comes to decreasing workload with even interactions like not
many people know this, but we we Autowa has to
be partnered with Nvideo and like we should be popping
this up way harder. Quick story sidebar, I was in
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Vegas at this conference called Health h t H l
t H in October, and just because I'm very interested
in innovation trying to build our program, and I phone
up care Kits, who's our innovation lead, and I'm like,
(26:46):
you need to be here. This is incredible, like all
the new tech that's happening and how streamlined everything is.
I would integrate with our electronic health records and she's like,
I'm here and I was like, what that's interesting. I'm
about to go on stage with the folks of on
video to announce our partnership. I was like, what is happening?
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So I got to meet them and the Deloitte crew.
But to me, this is why we should be excited,
because I do personally I see that there's solutions right
in front of us that we have that ability to
answer some of these accessibility questions, efficiency, cost of care concerns,
(27:30):
all of that with our tech and innovation platforms, to me,
is attainable.
Speaker 6 (27:36):
And doctor k didn't you say in a past meeting
too that this technology and the way the hospital is
going to be built around technology is literally going to
shave minutes off of you know, the care process and
saving lives.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
Oh my goodness, Like I'll just plant some seeds. Like
one of the one of the innovations that's happening within
our own department, for example, is is if you you
are in one of the perfole hospitals. Because we were
talking about how this is a regional it's going to
in fact the whole region. You're in Kempville and your
loved one is going had just had a surgery, and
(28:12):
they're showing signs that they might not be doing well.
We have the tech in twenty twenty five, okay that
you could put on a distant monitor and I could
from my smartphone or smart device, I could tell how
well they're doing. And even sometimes before they look like
they're doing that they're not doing well. I could say, oh,
missus X is looking like her heartwave variability is decreasing.
(28:37):
Maybe she should get a fluid bowl list, maybe she
should maybe should give her some antibiotics. Like that to me,
if you could intervene early and prevent them from declining,
that is massive, And just as an example, you come
into an intensive care unit for any reason, that's three
thousand dollars a day. That transfer from Kempville is a
(28:57):
cost a system ten thousand dollars like and just the
experience of having to leave your loved ones and being
outside the environment. And then still I might go off
a little bit because I get a little too excited
about this. But even yeah, but even like this twenty
twenty five scribe technology. Okay, so you and I you
come in with the medical problem. I put my phone
(29:19):
right here and I say, missus Birchrand, are you okay?
If we record this encounter, we have you tell me
about your medical problem. I get to look at you
straight in the eye. I'm not stuck typing away and
saying and just doing my checklist, hearing exactly what I
think is important. I have a perfectly written note from
(29:41):
that scribe technology. I am now instead of spending an
extra fifteen minutes on my charting, now I could see
another patient, and so I'm that much more efficient. And
this already exists in twenty twenty five. So like what
the future looks like, especially like when we got Nvidia
in the mix, you could have consultations and follow up
(30:03):
with with with in front of your phone like a chatbot.
Or or what is the word like an avatar talking
to you, Like, there's so many possibilities here that is
going to enhance the patient experience. So sorry, I went
off a little bit. And there's like nine other things
that we could talk about, but I don't want to.
I don't want to digress. But ginger one, are the
(30:26):
things that I think we should do because we're all
timestamp this is we're in mid April when we're recording this.
What are some of the most exciting things coming down
the pipeline because we are doing some we often go
to events and try and build up some momentum. But
I heard about something that's happened pretty exciting in May.
Speaker 5 (30:48):
Yeah, yeah, so happening in May. There is a well,
the next.
Speaker 6 (30:53):
Gen group is putting together a run group for the
National Capital Half Marathon weekend. So no matter what race
you want to run, whether it's five k, ten k,
half marathon, or marathon, we're fundraising for the Autowa Hospital.
So I'm gonna self. I'm running the ten k and
I have not run in a while, so we'll see
how that goes.
Speaker 2 (31:12):
But I.
Speaker 6 (31:17):
We'll have a recap, we'll have all up podcast interview
but it's going to be really exciting, so the aud like,
we'll all be together, celebrating, and you know, that's just
one element of this, right. I encourage anybody listening, if
you're in that sort of next gen category and you
want to get involved, go to that Creating Tomorrow dot
ca a website and reach out and see how you
(31:39):
can get involved, because there are so many opportunities throughout
the year, and we're really making a point to bringing
that next gen group together so that it's not just
showing up for the hospital, but it's networking for you too,
write meeting other people who are interested in similar things, right,
the hospital being one, but you know, and we you know,
we just actually had an ext gen event at the
(32:01):
Simulation Center which was so mind.
Speaker 5 (32:05):
Blowing, Oh my gosh.
Speaker 6 (32:07):
I well, first of all, we did an emergency CPR session,
so one of the avatars was not wait can you
say avatar for a real life like dummy? One of
the okay, and it's so lifelike it's shocking.
Speaker 5 (32:23):
And they had cardiac.
Speaker 2 (32:26):
Sorry I had to, I couldn't resist.
Speaker 6 (32:29):
Sorry, And yeah, so he was going through cardiac worress.
So we had been put through a drill of learning
how to in debate uh and give CPR and minister
the the shock.
Speaker 2 (32:44):
The paddles.
Speaker 5 (32:45):
Yeah, And so they put us through that drill.
Speaker 6 (32:46):
Now I was so nauseous after because it was so real.
Speaker 5 (32:51):
And the noises and I'm just like, I would not be.
Speaker 6 (32:54):
Able to be an emergency doctor, Like I don't think
I could be a doctor period. Because then we went
over and learned how to like future and cut skin
and I was.
Speaker 4 (33:01):
Like, well, chain, we're not an answer change no, no, no.
Speaker 5 (33:09):
I'll stick with the marketing side of things.
Speaker 2 (33:13):
Yeah. No.
Speaker 5 (33:13):
So it was so cool and like, I just never
experienced anything like that before.
Speaker 6 (33:17):
So those are just some of the unique sort of
the inside scoop that you know, this next Gen group
that was just recently created that we had been talking
about for a couple of years and the Tame team
at the Foundation got it off the ground and they've
put together a phenomenal program for next Gen sort of
interested in supporting the hospital and it's really really amazing,
And we're doing something similar to we're doing another program
(33:40):
through with the marketing team. We're doing we're setting up
an ambassador program, so we're looking at you know, influential
faces and odd wall content creators, because they're the ones
who when that message spreads, like word of mouth marketing,
like when they start, that's the most important and carries
the most weed, right, So so that's how we're going
(34:01):
to spread that message. So it's all very exciting. And
then I think there's a lot of crossover between those
two too, so lots of stuff, lots of stuff.
Speaker 2 (34:08):
Honestly, I love that so much because it it put
context into what we're doing. Like I I you're hearing
a story of this about the simulation, like when you
think about being in an environment, an optimal environment, So
you put money into the new campus, you're going to
(34:29):
be providing people with an emergency room where they can
provide the best care and no distractions, optimal care. And
because I mean you were in that situation and you
know you could feel like how stressful it could be.
You don't want any distractions. You want optimal, an optimal
setting to perform, and yeah, like this is all these
(34:50):
little things. Have no idea, I have no idea any honestly.
This was one of the things that because for years
before the pandemic, you tell but you're intensive care physician.
They don't. They're like, I don't know what that means.
You work in the emergency room, and but they put
you know, when you put context into into somebody's reality
(35:11):
like this, it's just a goal long way. So I
actually really really liked that, uh, that approach, and I
didn't realize we were we were doing doing that.
Speaker 4 (35:22):
Well.
Speaker 6 (35:22):
It's hard to get access to the sim center because
they use it for real life training, right, and I
think you know, you know, uh, right before a fatal
accident in Ottawa, the team had just run a whole
oh yeah simulation and that saved lives when that trauma
came in.
Speaker 5 (35:39):
It was multiple, multiple.
Speaker 6 (35:40):
People, but it was the OC Transpo crash, and the
team two weeks before had just trained in that sim center,
so they were sort of like they had just trained
for this through the sim center and then the trauma
happened and they literally saved lives like that training and
working together and that collaborative effort that you just I
would have no idea. I know what I see on TV,
(36:01):
but I'm not behind the doors of a real emergency room.
Speaker 3 (36:04):
Right.
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Speaker 3 (36:40):
It's funny you say that to I was watching the Actually,
I was recently on CVC talking about these reality not reality,
these drama medical shows.
Speaker 2 (36:53):
So one's called The Pit.
Speaker 5 (36:55):
Oh, I'm watching The Pit right now.
Speaker 2 (36:56):
It is so good. I was watching the the The
Pit yesterday and I actually got very emotional.
Speaker 3 (37:04):
There was a there's a part where they're in a
mass casualty situation and afterwards you the emotional.
Speaker 2 (37:13):
Now, think about it, the amount of people that really care,
that really want I don't know why I got emotional,
that want to be there to help the patients and
went the extra mile just to support the community and
get their patients through. We saw that during obviously during
the pandemic, we saw that doing that mass casualty with
(37:35):
the OC transport scenario. I guess what I'm getting at
is the people that you're supporting, guys like really care
and they really want to make a difference, and the
real people and the real look.
Speaker 5 (37:49):
At what you're going through right now, even trying to recount.
Speaker 6 (37:51):
That you're a real person. These are the doctors we're supporting. Like,
I couldn't think of anything better to throw my time
and wait.
Speaker 3 (37:58):
Behind It's it and I said this. I can't remember
when we said this, but this was an epiphany while
I was hearing some of the stories. It's like this,
your contribution will save lives, Like I honestly feel that wholeheartedly.
When we've become more when our research is enhanced, our
(38:19):
innovation is enhanced, our environment is enhanced, we perform our best,
we provide the best care that we can in the region,
which is going to translate into better care in the country.
Speaker 2 (38:31):
This will wholeheartedly save lives. So I'm this is why
I'm part of this, is why we're part of this.
This is why I'm so proud to be here with
you guys. Kevin. We talked about how we are sixty
or seventy percent of the way there, but I think
it's important for folks to hear the number roughly like
(38:54):
how much has been raised so far, and just to
spell out where we need to go.
Speaker 4 (39:00):
Well, as most folks may be aware the goal is
for the foundation to raise five hundred million dollars. And
when you think about that in the context of the community,
and I've been I've been part of the board of
the Foundation long enough to be recalling when we talked
about this as a concept that we're going to try
(39:21):
this foundation, we're going to try.
Speaker 2 (39:22):
This fundraising campaign.
Speaker 4 (39:24):
And the number moved around initially and landed at five
hundred million, because when you look at the actual cost
of the hospital and the community the community support required
to build the hospital, that's where this came in at.
So right now at seventy percent, I think were around
three hundred and fifty six million. I remember if I
think that's what we've announced recently, which I again I
think about that.
Speaker 2 (39:43):
Yeah, sorry, let's take a.
Speaker 4 (39:46):
Thank you, thank you, because I think about three hundred
and threy six million in Ottawa, which is as over
a million people, and you think about just how generous
the community has been to get to this point, and
so we've got to acknowledge that. To your point, we
just have to acknowledge that. Yeah, and I know the
foundation team are just so grateful for all the time
and efforts people are spending, whether it's donating, volunteering, helping.
(40:07):
So shout out to the foundation team as well.
Speaker 2 (40:10):
That is just there.
Speaker 4 (40:11):
You talk to great people at the hospital or the
foundation as well, like, oh my gosh, you want to
talk about purpose driven people like you know, we just
we just watched them go with things, say it that way.
Speaker 2 (40:20):
It's amazing.
Speaker 4 (40:22):
So we have we have some, we have some. We
have the you know, maybe it's the last chapter for
sixty seventy percent. We got, you know, maybe another third
to go. And I think right now you made a
lot of good points that resonate with me. We have
to remember it is bricks and mortar. We have to
remember it is innovation. We have to remember it is
the absolutely dedicated people that worked every day. And I've
(40:43):
had that. I've had surgeries there. My family has been there,
I had kids born there, my mother passed away there.
I'll tell you a story, like you know, we we
we went for coffee. My mom was in our last
couple of hours and I don't want to get emotional,
but and we went for coffee. But my family disconnected
somehow because we always said we don't want my mom
to be alone. Yeah, right, And we went for coffee,
(41:06):
and somehow my brother went and I thought I was
going anyway, Long a story short, we all left her alone.
When I got back up, a nurse was sitting beside
my mom, holding her hand because she.
Speaker 2 (41:17):
Didn't want her to be alone.
Speaker 4 (41:18):
Yeah, Amy Morrow, I remember her name. I asked her name.
I wrote it down because she thought it so important.
She knew what we were trying to do. She knew
this was my mum's last minute, and God bless if
she would have possible when were all on coffee, she
didn't want her to be alone, and she took the
time in her busy time to sit and hold on
Mom's hand. Those are the stories that we need to
(41:38):
let people know. Yeah, that's the people like it, and
it's incredibly stressed and so much we asked them to
do in twelve hour shifts and a broken system. You know,
it's not fun to be part of a broken system
and being asked to do more and more every day.
And whether it's in COVID or we just saw, we
saw the passion. So I'm taking away from this and
with the foundation, we've got really make sure we talk
(42:00):
about all elements of this, the community connection, the hospital
and the people that go there every day and we're
blessed to have them here, and the innovation opportunity we
have to truly make a difference on something that you've
classified and lived every day, Like I consider and talk
about it till I'm blue in the face. You live
it every day. You're a doctor sitting in the middle
of that trying to make a difference. And thank you
for that. But man, what an opportunity. And if if
(42:22):
people don't get motivated and jack by that, because I
am you know, I'm not the next gen or for
sure I've been called many things. I don't think next
gen is the one I'm going to be called any
time you unless they're can do something you know, new innovation, furbishment.
(42:43):
But all this to say is like if if people
aren't getting just the passion here at the table, but
we are representing the foundation, the folks the community that's
given so far, get it. And what we need to
do is make sure the other folks maybe haven't had
the opportunity to have that discussion, the simulation center experience,
that they have that opportunity just to understand what's happening
here and one hundred years from now, when I'm driving by,
(43:05):
because you're going to create some crazy good technology that's
going to let me stick around. We'll be saying we
all had a part of this. There's a brick in
that building that you were part of. Yeah, holy smelly.
Once in a lifetime opportunities. You nailed at the beginning
of the sea. Once in a lifetime opportunity.
Speaker 2 (43:22):
Man chills. I know I knew it was a good
idea to get us all together. I know I knew
it was a good idea to get us together.
Speaker 6 (43:32):
Always like something new when I'm with you guys, Like,
it's always great. I love I love talking to you guys.
I love listening.
Speaker 2 (43:37):
We gonna do this more often. Yeah, it's like, yeah,
every time we get to hang out, it's always on
a professional tip. But yeah, this is this is part
of the the joy of doing something like this too.
And and you know, we a bit unfiltered, a bit
on the emotional side. But I think it's it's authentic,
(43:58):
like we're all being like now, I'm not being articulate
at all here being authentic and showing why we're involved.
And I think it's important marketing or not like showing
why it means so much to us, and maybe some
part of words, anything that you want the public to hear,
(44:21):
or anything that you felt like we didn't cover that
you think would be important to articulate.
Speaker 6 (44:29):
I think I just want to repeat the words that
I said sort of at the beginning of this podcast
that every dollar matters, and like Kevin said, every brick
is that dollar, you know, like that is if you
want to think what is actually a tangible representation of
your dollar, that is tangible representation or going to research
(44:52):
and you know, you know, finding a cure for cancer.
And I think research is also a really big part
of the Ottawa Hospital and you know, some of the
things coming out of there are really mind blowing, especially
some of the research that I'm particularly interested in when
it comes to women's health. So every dollar matters because
(45:13):
you just never know which dollar is going.
Speaker 2 (45:15):
To save that life. Hey man, guys, I gotta tell
you this was pretty special for me. It was a
privilege that you guys agreed to come on and chat
about why this matters and why you're part of the campaign.
And I think this message will hit I honestly, I
(45:35):
feel like this message will resonate for people and they
feel motivated to want to contribute, even if it's that
dollar that which as you said, that dollars could be
the one that saves that life or makes that breakthrough
and one quick plug just because you mentioned it, I
think it's worth it, wor worth highlighting from a research perspective,
(45:57):
folks Ottawa that's well above its weight class. I know
I'm mixing metaphor like we really do well. And so
that extra support, that extra infrastructure, that enhanced environment where
we're going to bring even more talented folks to be
able to accelerate discovery is going to be magical. So
(46:18):
I think it was a very important point to bring up.
But col Gastination, thanks so much for joining us. This
was really special part for me to be able to
talk about this and you get a little bit of
an insight of our campaign and what we're trying to achieve.
If you want to learn more, go to Creating Tomorrow
dot ca. And once again, that dollar can go a
(46:41):
long way. Thanks so much, guys.
Speaker 4 (46:44):
Thanksana.
Speaker 2 (46:47):
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(47:11):
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very special episode today. So, as many of you know,
I've been part of the campaign to create Tomorrow, part
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(04:09):
that special campus. It's not only going to be steate
of the art equipment, but it's going to be a
catalyst for creating improvement in our healthcare system. And this
is a privilege for me because we have two of
our coach chairs in the mix, and why I wanted
to bring them on this week is because they show
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the power of trying to create that better tomorrow by
being an advocate, by being a champion to try and
raise the funds and create a healthcare system that we
really need right now. So first of all, we have
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as you're going to hear about, she has been championing
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And next to me, I have Kevin Ford, the CEO
Callian who's been an amazing advocate for introductions in terms
of the tech sector. This is really special, guys, So
thanks for joining us on the show.
Speaker 4 (05:13):
So happy to be here, really happy to be here.
Speaker 5 (05:15):
Thanks for having us.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Yeah, exactly, we're excited. We're excited, yes, And like I
got to tell you, two folks, the energy when we're
all together, Like we don't know each other from before,
but the second that we get together at these functions,
it's I feel like it's magnetic and ginger. Maybe let's
just start with what is your why? Because you are busy,
(05:36):
We're just talking about all the stuff that you got
going on, which is which is incredible. The companies. You
said you're an AP, which I don't even know the
acronym for executive producer is why I'm in physician, but
an EP for a show? But what led you to
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want to be part of the campaign?
Speaker 5 (06:02):
How could I say?
Speaker 3 (06:02):
No?
Speaker 6 (06:03):
This is the most transformative campaign the city's ever seen.
It's going to be wild like this was. It's not
only exciting, but it's important and we need to do it. So,
you know, I just happen to have experience talking to
that next gen as you mentioned off the top and
learning you know, knowing that social media piece, and I
have a lot of clients who are, you know, in
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their twenties and thirties, and I just know how they speak,
and I just thought there was a huge opportunity to
get them involved because, as we know, it's not just
about those major donors, right, It's about getting the whole
city involved. And I think we need to start with
that younger generation so that they know that this hospital
isn't just for them, but it's also like for their parents,
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and they're going to be the ones navigating it. They're
gonna be the stewards of the hospital, and their parents
are there, but then they're going to have like this
amazing technology. I mean, they're saying it's going to be
one of the most technologically advanced hospitals in North America.
This is insane to me. So how could I say no?
Speaker 5 (06:59):
How could I not want to be part of this project?
Speaker 2 (07:02):
One hundred percent agree? As many of you have heard
me say, this is something that is generational, and I
want my kids to be able to say, you know,
dad and his colleagues were part of something special. But
I got to asked before we jump on to Kevin,
what what can be that message to the youth, because
I'll just put myself as when I was twenty years
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old and somebody told me, you know, there's a new
building coming up, a new hospital. I don't know if
I'd get too excited about that, because I feel when
I was twenty I felt like I was invincible. When
I was twenty five, I felt invicible. So how do
we how do we reach them?
Speaker 6 (07:40):
Yeah, it's sort of like who cares right as well?
Like I think I was probably there too, But I
think that there is I think that demographic once they
see their favorite influencers and content creator creators and people
that they look up to sharing and posting about something
that they care about, there tends to be the gravitational
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pull of well I want to get involved in that
as well, or that seems really interesting.
Speaker 5 (08:06):
I'm going to learn more about it.
Speaker 6 (08:07):
And you know I've said this before, you guys know that,
you know, I believe that every dollar matters. And somebody
told me this one time when she couldn't give a
lot to donate and she.
Speaker 5 (08:17):
Was told, you know, you never know what dollar is going.
Speaker 6 (08:20):
To save a life. And I think that's so important
to remember. And I think teaching, teaching. Sort of this
empathy and volunteering and giving back even in small amounts
at a young age is so crucial to them. Having,
you know, adults in their forties and fifties who want
to give back, and not that they're feeling pressured to
give back, but they become a real philanthropist and their
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advocates and their community champions.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
I'll never forget when you mentioned that that you don't
know if that's the dollar that's going to make the difference, and.
Speaker 5 (08:52):
I just got chilled.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
I know, I exactly, and I truly feel that's the
message to the youth is like you can and make
a difference because I feel personally like they're looking for meaning,
they're looking for purpose, and this is a gift that
can provide that for them. Kevin, You've been part of
the Ottawa Hospital fundraising for years, and so I'm curious
(09:16):
how did it start for you in general when it
came to supporting the Ottawa Hospital.
Speaker 4 (09:21):
Great question, because sometimes when I get asked that question,
it feels like I have been involved for years and
it's been great, and it's been a journey of just
absolute passion and love. So for me, I was born
and raised in Ottawa. So I'm one of those few folks.
I think maybe the lost to the tech execut that
is actually born and raised here and can talk to
me later. Maybe I did have enough, you know, goomshom
my life to go out and do other things.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
But I've always loved Otawa. Number two is under twenty.
It's interesting.
Speaker 4 (09:45):
I had already had my first surgery at the Ottawa
Hospital when I was under twenty, but the motor as
that happened when I was out, you know, so I
had had an experience at the hospital even at under twenty, right,
And since then, you know, I've had two or three
surgeries personally, and raise the family here in Ottawa and
recognize the importance of healthcare. How many times have we
all taken that for granted When it's not working, we
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always want to complain about it, but we all count
on it. So for me, what an opportunity to your
point that we do that legacy and for me personally,
why I have been involved is simple. It's something. I think,
it's the fabric of the community. It is something if
we don't have it. I want my family, my boys.
I have four boys, I want them to raise their kids.
I want their kids to raise kids. I want them
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all to have the opportunity that I've had to have
access to incredible health care, world leading healthcare. So that's
number one passion. Number two is that when you actually
think about our opportunity as a city, how lucky are
we do we have the employment base that we do,
the companies that we have, world leading companies, world leading
companies in so many domains. And what an opportunity to
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give the opportunity to then to give into this innovation agenda,
into this hospital. So I see it as a community leader.
I see it as a business leader. I see it
as a resident, I see it as a parent. I
see it through every fabric of my life. That's why
I'm sitting here today, and that's why it's been such
a journey of just absolute joy working with the Foundation
on this.
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My goodness, I'm still a little bit stuck on the
four boys, to be honest with you, as a data three,
having a fourth, I would have lost my mind driving
in and of itself. Well exactly, Yes, yes it's awesome.
But yeah, this is a real good point that I
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don't think we emphasize enough in terms of the ecosystem
that this will create as well. Righty, you mentioned how
not only from a healthcare perspective this is important, but
to this city, to the common person, like either of you,
I guess I'm putting this out there. It's like map
it out, like what once this campus is established? Maybe
(12:15):
I'll ask Kevin, like how how does this affect our economy?
How does this affect the common person?
Speaker 4 (12:21):
I think for me, the one thing we probably don't
talk enough about because I think some people look at
the hospital as bricks and mortar, as a physical building,
and obviously it will be and if you drive by
it even now, you're starting to see just the size
of this building is going to be massive. It's going
to be so impressive as a physical building. But I
think the more important thing is the word you mentioned.
They're the ecosystem and the world. The Outawa Hospital plays
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as a leader in the community, not just for that building,
but for all the campuses of the Autawa Hospital. They
think about the affiliation with areas like chemphill and Smith's
fall as a whole kid. So it's a community ecosystem
led by the Ottawa Hospital and I think we probably
should talk more about that because, you know, only donating
to build a new hospital, you're building to strengthen that ecosystem.
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And I think that is something I've come to learn
working with cam Love and yourself, you know, an incredible
physician in our community.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
How lucky are we to have you here?
Speaker 4 (13:13):
Is that it's not just about what walks into the hospitals,
what walks into our community. And I think that's something
again giving and supporting this foundation, you're part of that absolutely.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
And Jina, just thinking about that Next Gen, do you
think that's some message that that wrote that they can
relate to.
Speaker 6 (13:29):
Yeah, I think you know, once you get next gen
is you know, different age categories. You got some younger millennials,
you got some older millennials, you got some gen Z
in there. So everybody's at a different stage in their life.
Even if you know next gen umbrella. Some of them
are thinking about where do I want to live, what
health care, infrastructure, trans and infrastructure does that city have
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where you know or even you know entrepreneurs looking to
start up a new company. I mean the time is
when you're in your thirties and you've got that you know,
fresh blood, and you've got the desire and the drive
to to spend you know, one hundred and twenty hours
working on your business and getting it started, and you
want to set up in a community that has all
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of the infrastructure in place and that you know that
you your family, your parents are going to be taken
care of, that you can get to work. Like the
infrastructure is just so important to a city and a
community and to build that.
Speaker 5 (14:24):
So I think that part like the next gen. A
lot of the.
Speaker 6 (14:27):
Next gens are looking at that as well, you know,
where they want to raise their families. I think having
a hospital an ecosystem the way you know Kevin was
talking about it is so important and you're right, Kevin,
we don't talk enough about that, and I think that
is quite literally what the campaign is about, you know,
creating tomorrow. It's a new evolution of how we're looking
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at healthcare. And you know, I'm not the person to
speak on it, but every time I've heard you know,
Cameron Love or Tim speak about it, I'm just like, Wow,
wouldn't this have been great like ten years ago, you know,
being able to access smaller hospitals for non emergency surgeries
and like using all the operating room and spaces and
stuff so that there's not.
Speaker 5 (15:12):
Such a backlog. I don't know, correct me if I'm wrong,
doctor K.
Speaker 6 (15:16):
But you know these are the changes we want to see, right,
I mean.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
Let's be honest. Like I was kind of saying in
the intro, this is what drew me to the campaign,
was you really want to be able to be part
of the solution. You want to be able to be
part of the solution when our healthcare system is currently
in crisis. And I do not want to overdramatize things,
(15:42):
but this is the worse I've seen it personally, when
I see that a fifth of our city doesn't have
family physicians. I see the long wait times and emerge
at times. I've seen people waiting for elective surgeries that
unfortunately they get worse. And so all these these unfortunate
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circumstances around our healthcare system. It's a reality, and I
think what we're trying to create will be the solution.
I really think that this will be such a massive catalyst.
And as Kevin alluded to, we have the people, we
have the energy. This is why I'm really excited about this,
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and I'm hoping. I'm hoping people could feed off that energy.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
And like one of the things that I noticed during
the pandemic as an example, is we had a similar
purpose and then the city and the country rallied around that.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
And I'm wondering, Ginger, is is there a way we
could create that here? Like I know we're trying to,
but is there a way of creating more that urgency?
Because I feel the urgency as a as a healthcare provider,
I must say, like, I'm I want us to make
that leap sooner than later. But yeah, I don't. I
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don't know if you feel like we need to have
that higher level.
Speaker 6 (17:06):
Of urgency and camaraderie and like, yeah, like coming together.
You're asking me from a marketing perspective, I.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
Mean, at the doors open, you know what I mean,
the door's open, Like maybe it is from a marketing perspective,
maybe it is from just a genuine message. I don't know,
but I'm not sure if that message also comes across
as like whoa like this is where spreccful times already.
Speaker 5 (17:28):
Yeah, I think there's two things.
Speaker 6 (17:30):
I mean, I think one, we haven't necessarily been talking
about the project enough.
Speaker 5 (17:35):
Or reaching you know, beyond what we've been.
Speaker 6 (17:39):
Comfortable with so far. So I think that's why, you know,
we forgot to say off the top, we're missing one
of our co chairs. Yeah, Clark, the president of Inflector.
But you know, and we you know Tim who is
our big boss you know, at the foundation. He brought
us all together because we sort of represent different pillars
of the community. And I think that was really important
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because we have expertise in reaching and talking to.
Speaker 5 (18:03):
Those different pillars of the community.
Speaker 6 (18:05):
And I think that's one way to start getting you know,
everyone together, and you know, to pool sort of our
resources and start reaching out to everyone so that hey,
they know about the project, B, they know about the updates.
Speaker 5 (18:20):
See they know how.
Speaker 6 (18:21):
Important it is, and B and D we need to
create positive sentiment around it because right now, as you said,
like healthcare, you haven't ever seen it so bad. So
we really need to figure out how to communicate and
how to how to communicate the changes we're doing and
why they're going to have positive impact and why people
should get involved in the campaign.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
Yeah, and that's a really good point. And I'm also
wondering too, KEIVI wh we talked about this a little bit,
but current state of our I don't know what you
call it, certain state of affairs with the tariffts and
what's going on down south. I feel like the urgency
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is even higher actually to have that support. And I
don't know if you feel the same way in general
about like where we're at because of the economic climate,
but because in some ways I'm scared because people are
going to feel more of a constraint to try and
support something like this. But yeah, I mean maybe an
open question like how do you how do you overcome this,
(19:27):
the our current economic climate right now?
Speaker 4 (19:30):
It's a great question, you know. I literally talked to
two other CEOs this morning, Canadian CEOs as air maneuvering,
and we're all, you know, dodging and weaving what is
happening in the US and just the global the global
reality we're dealing with on on the macro level, whether
cus global conflict, climate change, you know, tariffs, all of that.
So I think we can say as as business leaders,
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it's a it's very complex time. But I think through COVID,
through all the different areas, we recognized resilience. And I think,
if anything, we need to just celebrate the resilience we
have as Canadian entrepreneurs, as Canadian businesses that we have
managed through some pretty strong headwinds over the last couple
of years. And look at us talking today with excitement
about the future. So I look at this as another
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one of those maybe the winds gusting a bit harder
right now, but we're going to get through this.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
Number one.
Speaker 4 (20:17):
Number two is the other thing I hope people recognize.
If you drive by the campus, this is no longer
a concept. Yeah, there's shovels in the ground, there's parking
garages being built to accommodate the workers that are going
to be required to build the hospital. And I don't
know if you've driven by lately, but I am blown
away by how just large the parking lots are. And
so we're just going to be room for the hospital, right.
(20:38):
So I think it's important business leaders, the people that
our public understand that This is a don't stop moment.
We cannot stop. We have to keep going, and we're
going to have to all dig deep and find ways
to support the hospital, whether it's personally, whether it's through
employee campaigns, engaging your staff, engaging your families, engaging your friends,
having these type of discussions, because we just can't stop. Like,
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I don't think the opportunity for us to say, as well, listen,
well we're going to wait out the administration down south
and four years will start digging again, Like, that's not
the opportunity here. The opportunity is to keep going, to
thrive in this environment, to build that hospital. So then
when we get through all of this, how good are
we going to feel that when the headwinds tuned down
a bit, we're looking at a brand new hospital, a
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brand new hospital that's going to be technologically advanced, that's
going to connect the community, be part of that ecosystem,
and then frankly, you know, hopefully be something of a
center of pride. And every time I drive by the
Civic Hospital one hundred and some odd years ago, there's
people like us sitting around somewhere talking about their passion
to build that hospital and at that point. I can't
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remember what the budget was, but it was massive at
the time, and I'm sure there's thinking there's no way
we can do this in the size of Autawa, and
they did. And what's the impact that Hospital Loone has
had in this community over the last hundred years. That's
the legacy we all have, our opportunity for so long.
Answer to your question is there is headwinds, we can't.
We have to acknowledge that it raised almost sixty seventy
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percent of the funding already. So congratulations and thank you
to all those who are support it. Thank you, thank you,
thank you, thank you. But we're at that final stretch
and we just we just can't let off that urgency.
We can't let off that it will be built. So
let's all dig in. Let's not use the macro environment
as a reason we can pause, because we can't. But
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recognizing that and making sure our discussions reflect the fact
that maybe people are having some challenges, but let's still
have the discussion.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
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A welcome back to Prevention over Prescription with doctor k
I love it, and I mean both of you could
attest to this. As a physician in going through COVID,
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you had some adversity, But the entrepreneurial space, this is
where I personally see a ton of resilience because you've
got to go through the ups and downs of the economy.
There's I don't know any entrepreneur that hasn't failed at
some point, right And I guess long winded question is
(23:30):
you've been You've been a key component of opening doors
and knocking on doors or some of our high tech folks.
And as you said so eloquently said, this is the
time to not quit. But what can further be the
message to that sector why they should be lending the
support at this time?
Speaker 4 (23:52):
It's it's something what I what I recognize frankly recently
and part of the reason I agreed to be co chairs.
I'm not sure we've recognized, as Younger said, I'm not
sure we've recognized the full scope of the hospital away
from the bricks and mortar, which is critically important. I'm
not I'm not downplaying that at all, but the innovation opportunity,
you know, as a city that is thriving an innovation
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with all the companies over hundred companies, I think it
can out of North alone. Now you know the entrepreneur's
AI companies Dave Ross video just came up a call
with you know, the the folks that are innovating at
a global scale right now out of Ottawa is incredible.
And again I'm credibly proud as an Ottawa, as an Autawa.
't know if that's word, but we'll go with it.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
Wani Wanian.
Speaker 4 (24:32):
All right, Wa, that did the word folks, you've heard
it today auta Ani. But I think for me that
one thing I'm recognizing is I don't think we've maybe
talked enough about the innovation going into the hospital and
the opportunity for companies to participate, whether it's supporting it
through an innovation program, whether it's funding directed to innovation. Well,
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a lot of people don't realize that the province is
and all those you know, all the money that's being
raised by the province or is given to this is
for the bricks and mortar. Everything in the hospital comes
through the community. Yeah, and that's the beds, that's the equipment,
that's everything as well as the innovation. So what I
wanted to do with the tech community is exposed the
innovation agenda because I'm blown away by the just the
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state of the art nature of it, but the opportunity
for innovation to connect the community through the hospital as
a main hub that is massive. And the good news
is twenty years ago that would have been tough, now
totally feasible. We see now the hospital's connecting through the technology.
We're seeing the opportunity to use AI. We're talking about
machine learning to improve the system that's broken. So I
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want our tech community to be excited about the opportunity
to be part of that.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
Listen. I I see this as a feature of like
the solutions for our problems. And you know I've been
on the show a few times saying this like this
is why for my own department, I'm leaning on the
innovation at a hospital level. This is why I'm getting
excited about it as a fundraiser. This is why I'm
getting excited about it because we're in a different world
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now with the AI when it comes to efficiency, when
it comes to decreasing workload with even interactions like not
many people know this, but we we Autowa has to
be partnered with Nvideo and like we should be popping
this up way harder. Quick story sidebar, I was in
(26:25):
Vegas at this conference called Health h t H l
t H in October, and just because I'm very interested
in innovation trying to build our program, and I phone
up care Kits, who's our innovation lead, and I'm like,
(26:46):
you need to be here. This is incredible, like all
the new tech that's happening and how streamlined everything is.
I would integrate with our electronic health records and she's like,
I'm here and I was like, what that's interesting. I'm
about to go on stage with the folks of on
video to announce our partnership. I was like, what is happening?
(27:07):
So I got to meet them and the Deloitte crew.
But to me, this is why we should be excited,
because I do personally I see that there's solutions right
in front of us that we have that ability to
answer some of these accessibility questions, efficiency, cost of care concerns,
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all of that with our tech and innovation platforms, to me,
is attainable.
Speaker 6 (27:36):
And doctor k didn't you say in a past meeting
too that this technology and the way the hospital is
going to be built around technology is literally going to
shave minutes off of you know, the care process and
saving lives.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
Oh my goodness, Like I'll just plant some seeds. Like
one of the one of the innovations that's happening within
our own department, for example, is is if you you
are in one of the perfole hospitals. Because we were
talking about how this is a regional it's going to
in fact the whole region. You're in Kempville and your
loved one is going had just had a surgery, and
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they're showing signs that they might not be doing well.
We have the tech in twenty twenty five, okay that
you could put on a distant monitor and I could
from my smartphone or smart device, I could tell how
well they're doing. And even sometimes before they look like
they're doing that they're not doing well. I could say, oh,
missus X is looking like her heartwave variability is decreasing.
(28:37):
Maybe she should get a fluid bowl list, maybe she
should maybe should give her some antibiotics. Like that to me,
if you could intervene early and prevent them from declining,
that is massive, And just as an example, you come
into an intensive care unit for any reason, that's three
thousand dollars a day. That transfer from Kempville is a
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cost a system ten thousand dollars like and just the
experience of having to leave your loved ones and being
outside the environment. And then still I might go off
a little bit because I get a little too excited
about this. But even yeah, but even like this twenty
twenty five scribe technology. Okay, so you and I you
come in with the medical problem. I put my phone
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right here and I say, missus Birchrand, are you okay?
If we record this encounter, we have you tell me
about your medical problem. I get to look at you
straight in the eye. I'm not stuck typing away and
saying and just doing my checklist, hearing exactly what I
think is important. I have a perfectly written note from
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that scribe technology. I am now instead of spending an
extra fifteen minutes on my charting, now I could see
another patient, and so I'm that much more efficient. And
this already exists in twenty twenty five. So like what
the future looks like, especially like when we got Nvidia
in the mix, you could have consultations and follow up
(30:03):
with with with in front of your phone like a chatbot.
Or or what is the word like an avatar talking
to you, Like, there's so many possibilities here that is
going to enhance the patient experience. So sorry, I went
off a little bit. And there's like nine other things
that we could talk about, but I don't want to.
I don't want to digress. But ginger one, are the
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things that I think we should do because we're all
timestamp this is we're in mid April when we're recording this.
What are some of the most exciting things coming down
the pipeline because we are doing some we often go
to events and try and build up some momentum. But
I heard about something that's happened pretty exciting in May.
Speaker 5 (30:48):
Yeah, yeah, so happening in May. There is a well,
the next.
Speaker 6 (30:53):
Gen group is putting together a run group for the
National Capital Half Marathon weekend. So no matter what race
you want to run, whether it's five k, ten k,
half marathon, or marathon, we're fundraising for the Autowa Hospital.
So I'm gonna self. I'm running the ten k and
I have not run in a while, so we'll see
how that goes.
Speaker 2 (31:12):
But I.
Speaker 6 (31:17):
We'll have a recap, we'll have all up podcast interview
but it's going to be really exciting, so the aud like,
we'll all be together, celebrating, and you know, that's just
one element of this, right. I encourage anybody listening, if
you're in that sort of next gen category and you
want to get involved, go to that Creating Tomorrow dot
ca a website and reach out and see how you
(31:39):
can get involved, because there are so many opportunities throughout
the year, and we're really making a point to bringing
that next gen group together so that it's not just
showing up for the hospital, but it's networking for you too,
write meeting other people who are interested in similar things, right,
the hospital being one, but you know, and we you know,
we just actually had an ext gen event at the
(32:01):
Simulation Center which was so mind.
Speaker 5 (32:05):
Blowing, Oh my gosh.
Speaker 6 (32:07):
I well, first of all, we did an emergency CPR session,
so one of the avatars was not wait can you
say avatar for a real life like dummy? One of
the okay, and it's so lifelike it's shocking.
Speaker 5 (32:23):
And they had cardiac.
Speaker 2 (32:26):
Sorry I had to, I couldn't resist.
Speaker 6 (32:29):
Sorry, And yeah, so he was going through cardiac worress.
So we had been put through a drill of learning
how to in debate uh and give CPR and minister
the the shock.
Speaker 2 (32:44):
The paddles.
Speaker 5 (32:45):
Yeah, And so they put us through that drill.
Speaker 6 (32:46):
Now I was so nauseous after because it was so real.
Speaker 5 (32:51):
And the noises and I'm just like, I would not be.
Speaker 6 (32:54):
Able to be an emergency doctor, Like I don't think
I could be a doctor period. Because then we went
over and learned how to like future and cut skin
and I was.
Speaker 4 (33:01):
Like, well, chain, we're not an answer change no, no, no.
Speaker 5 (33:09):
I'll stick with the marketing side of things.
Speaker 2 (33:13):
Yeah. No.
Speaker 5 (33:13):
So it was so cool and like, I just never
experienced anything like that before.
Speaker 6 (33:17):
So those are just some of the unique sort of
the inside scoop that you know, this next Gen group
that was just recently created that we had been talking
about for a couple of years and the Tame team
at the Foundation got it off the ground and they've
put together a phenomenal program for next Gen sort of
interested in supporting the hospital and it's really really amazing,
And we're doing something similar to we're doing another program
(33:40):
through with the marketing team. We're doing we're setting up
an ambassador program, so we're looking at you know, influential
faces and odd wall content creators, because they're the ones
who when that message spreads, like word of mouth marketing,
like when they start, that's the most important and carries
the most weed, right, So so that's how we're going
(34:01):
to spread that message. So it's all very exciting. And
then I think there's a lot of crossover between those
two too, so lots of stuff, lots of stuff.
Speaker 2 (34:08):
Honestly, I love that so much because it it put
context into what we're doing. Like I I you're hearing
a story of this about the simulation, like when you
think about being in an environment, an optimal environment, So
you put money into the new campus, you're going to
(34:29):
be providing people with an emergency room where they can
provide the best care and no distractions, optimal care. And
because I mean you were in that situation and you
know you could feel like how stressful it could be.
You don't want any distractions. You want optimal, an optimal
setting to perform, and yeah, like this is all these
(34:50):
little things. Have no idea, I have no idea any honestly.
This was one of the things that because for years
before the pandemic, you tell but you're intensive care physician.
They don't. They're like, I don't know what that means.
You work in the emergency room, and but they put
you know, when you put context into into somebody's reality
(35:11):
like this, it's just a goal long way. So I
actually really really liked that, uh, that approach, and I
didn't realize we were we were doing doing that.
Speaker 4 (35:22):
Well.
Speaker 6 (35:22):
It's hard to get access to the sim center because
they use it for real life training, right, and I
think you know, you know, uh, right before a fatal
accident in Ottawa, the team had just run a whole
oh yeah simulation and that saved lives when that trauma
came in.
Speaker 5 (35:39):
It was multiple, multiple.
Speaker 6 (35:40):
People, but it was the OC Transpo crash, and the
team two weeks before had just trained in that sim center,
so they were sort of like they had just trained
for this through the sim center and then the trauma
happened and they literally saved lives like that training and
working together and that collaborative effort that you just I
would have no idea. I know what I see on TV,
(36:01):
but I'm not behind the doors of a real emergency room.
Speaker 3 (36:04):
Right.
Speaker 2 (36:04):
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Speaker 3 (36:40):
It's funny you say that to I was watching the Actually,
I was recently on CVC talking about these reality not reality,
these drama medical shows.
Speaker 2 (36:53):
So one's called The Pit.
Speaker 5 (36:55):
Oh, I'm watching The Pit right now.
Speaker 2 (36:56):
It is so good. I was watching the the The
Pit yesterday and I actually got very emotional.
Speaker 3 (37:04):
There was a there's a part where they're in a
mass casualty situation and afterwards you the emotional.
Speaker 2 (37:13):
Now, think about it, the amount of people that really care,
that really want I don't know why I got emotional,
that want to be there to help the patients and
went the extra mile just to support the community and
get their patients through. We saw that during obviously during
the pandemic, we saw that doing that mass casualty with
(37:35):
the OC transport scenario. I guess what I'm getting at
is the people that you're supporting, guys like really care
and they really want to make a difference, and the
real people and the real look.
Speaker 5 (37:49):
At what you're going through right now, even trying to recount.
Speaker 6 (37:51):
That you're a real person. These are the doctors we're supporting. Like,
I couldn't think of anything better to throw my time
and wait.
Speaker 3 (37:58):
Behind It's it and I said this. I can't remember
when we said this, but this was an epiphany while
I was hearing some of the stories. It's like this,
your contribution will save lives, Like I honestly feel that wholeheartedly.
When we've become more when our research is enhanced, our
(38:19):
innovation is enhanced, our environment is enhanced, we perform our best,
we provide the best care that we can in the region,
which is going to translate into better care in the country.
Speaker 2 (38:31):
This will wholeheartedly save lives. So I'm this is why
I'm part of this, is why we're part of this.
This is why I'm so proud to be here with
you guys. Kevin. We talked about how we are sixty
or seventy percent of the way there, but I think
it's important for folks to hear the number roughly like
(38:54):
how much has been raised so far, and just to
spell out where we need to go.
Speaker 4 (39:00):
Well, as most folks may be aware the goal is
for the foundation to raise five hundred million dollars. And
when you think about that in the context of the community,
and I've been I've been part of the board of
the Foundation long enough to be recalling when we talked
about this as a concept that we're going to try
(39:21):
this foundation, we're going to try.
Speaker 2 (39:22):
This fundraising campaign.
Speaker 4 (39:24):
And the number moved around initially and landed at five
hundred million, because when you look at the actual cost
of the hospital and the community the community support required
to build the hospital, that's where this came in at.
So right now at seventy percent, I think were around
three hundred and fifty six million. I remember if I
think that's what we've announced recently, which I again I
think about that.
Speaker 2 (39:43):
Yeah, sorry, let's take a.
Speaker 4 (39:46):
Thank you, thank you, because I think about three hundred
and threy six million in Ottawa, which is as over
a million people, and you think about just how generous
the community has been to get to this point, and
so we've got to acknowledge that. To your point, we
just have to acknowledge that. Yeah, and I know the
foundation team are just so grateful for all the time
and efforts people are spending, whether it's donating, volunteering, helping.
(40:07):
So shout out to the foundation team as well.
Speaker 2 (40:10):
That is just there.
Speaker 4 (40:11):
You talk to great people at the hospital or the
foundation as well, like, oh my gosh, you want to
talk about purpose driven people like you know, we just
we just watched them go with things, say it that way.
Speaker 2 (40:20):
It's amazing.
Speaker 4 (40:22):
So we have we have some, we have some. We
have the you know, maybe it's the last chapter for
sixty seventy percent. We got, you know, maybe another third
to go. And I think right now you made a
lot of good points that resonate with me. We have
to remember it is bricks and mortar. We have to
remember it is innovation. We have to remember it is
the absolutely dedicated people that worked every day. And I've
(40:43):
had that. I've had surgeries there. My family has been there,
I had kids born there, my mother passed away there.
I'll tell you a story, like you know, we we
we went for coffee. My mom was in our last
couple of hours and I don't want to get emotional,
but and we went for coffee. But my family disconnected
somehow because we always said we don't want my mom
to be alone. Yeah, right, And we went for coffee,
(41:06):
and somehow my brother went and I thought I was
going anyway, Long a story short, we all left her alone.
When I got back up, a nurse was sitting beside
my mom, holding her hand because she.
Speaker 2 (41:17):
Didn't want her to be alone.
Speaker 4 (41:18):
Yeah, Amy Morrow, I remember her name. I asked her name.
I wrote it down because she thought it so important.
She knew what we were trying to do. She knew
this was my mum's last minute, and God bless if
she would have possible when were all on coffee, she
didn't want her to be alone, and she took the
time in her busy time to sit and hold on
Mom's hand. Those are the stories that we need to
(41:38):
let people know. Yeah, that's the people like it, and
it's incredibly stressed and so much we asked them to
do in twelve hour shifts and a broken system. You know,
it's not fun to be part of a broken system
and being asked to do more and more every day.
And whether it's in COVID or we just saw, we
saw the passion. So I'm taking away from this and
with the foundation, we've got really make sure we talk
(42:00):
about all elements of this, the community connection, the hospital
and the people that go there every day and we're
blessed to have them here, and the innovation opportunity we
have to truly make a difference on something that you've
classified and lived every day, Like I consider and talk
about it till I'm blue in the face. You live
it every day. You're a doctor sitting in the middle
of that trying to make a difference. And thank you
for that. But man, what an opportunity. And if if
(42:22):
people don't get motivated and jack by that, because I
am you know, I'm not the next gen or for
sure I've been called many things. I don't think next
gen is the one I'm going to be called any
time you unless they're can do something you know, new innovation, furbishment.
(42:43):
But all this to say is like if if people
aren't getting just the passion here at the table, but
we are representing the foundation, the folks the community that's
given so far, get it. And what we need to
do is make sure the other folks maybe haven't had
the opportunity to have that discussion, the simulation center experience,
that they have that opportunity just to understand what's happening
here and one hundred years from now, when I'm driving by,
(43:05):
because you're going to create some crazy good technology that's
going to let me stick around. We'll be saying we
all had a part of this. There's a brick in
that building that you were part of. Yeah, holy smelly.
Once in a lifetime opportunities. You nailed at the beginning
of the sea. Once in a lifetime opportunity.
Speaker 2 (43:22):
Man chills. I know I knew it was a good
idea to get us all together. I know I knew
it was a good idea to get us together.
Speaker 6 (43:32):
Always like something new when I'm with you guys, Like,
it's always great. I love I love talking to you guys.
I love listening.
Speaker 2 (43:37):
We gonna do this more often. Yeah, it's like, yeah,
every time we get to hang out, it's always on
a professional tip. But yeah, this is this is part
of the the joy of doing something like this too.
And and you know, we a bit unfiltered, a bit
on the emotional side. But I think it's it's authentic,
(43:58):
like we're all being like now, I'm not being articulate
at all here being authentic and showing why we're involved.
And I think it's important marketing or not like showing
why it means so much to us, and maybe some
part of words, anything that you want the public to hear,
(44:21):
or anything that you felt like we didn't cover that
you think would be important to articulate.
Speaker 6 (44:29):
I think I just want to repeat the words that
I said sort of at the beginning of this podcast
that every dollar matters, and like Kevin said, every brick
is that dollar, you know, like that is if you
want to think what is actually a tangible representation of
your dollar, that is tangible representation or going to research
(44:52):
and you know, you know, finding a cure for cancer.
And I think research is also a really big part
of the Ottawa Hospital and you know, some of the
things coming out of there are really mind blowing, especially
some of the research that I'm particularly interested in when
it comes to women's health. So every dollar matters because
(45:13):
you just never know which dollar is going.
Speaker 2 (45:15):
To save that life. Hey man, guys, I gotta tell
you this was pretty special for me. It was a
privilege that you guys agreed to come on and chat
about why this matters and why you're part of the campaign.
And I think this message will hit I honestly, I
(45:35):
feel like this message will resonate for people and they
feel motivated to want to contribute, even if it's that
dollar that which as you said, that dollars could be
the one that saves that life or makes that breakthrough
and one quick plug just because you mentioned it, I
think it's worth it, wor worth highlighting from a research perspective,
(45:57):
folks Ottawa that's well above its weight class. I know
I'm mixing metaphor like we really do well. And so
that extra support, that extra infrastructure, that enhanced environment where
we're going to bring even more talented folks to be
able to accelerate discovery is going to be magical. So
(46:18):
I think it was a very important point to bring up.
But col Gastination, thanks so much for joining us. This
was really special part for me to be able to
talk about this and you get a little bit of
an insight of our campaign and what we're trying to achieve.
If you want to learn more, go to Creating Tomorrow
dot ca. And once again, that dollar can go a
(46:41):
long way. Thanks so much, guys.
Speaker 4 (46:44):
Thanksana.
Speaker 2 (46:47):
Welcome back on the Healthy Man pro Check. All right,
this week's comments is gonna be on sleep. This is
my kryptonite, the area where I am the worst at
when it comes to health and wellness, but we know
it's important. It's probably one of the most important things
(47:11):
to work on, because if you're not sleeping well, your
metabolism is messed up, your glucose controls the best up,
your mental health is messed up, your recovery or your
ability to make gains from working out is messed up.
So sleep is is is essential, And I'm just gonna
(47:34):
leave you all with a few main ways to improve
your sleep. I'm just gonna go heavy. I'm just gonna
raw them off and message me at podcast nine nine
at gmail dot com or at any of our socials
if you want, if we want to take a deeper
(47:54):
dive into any of this, but Number one, stay active
during the day. Increase that step count. That's going to
increase your sleep pressure more likely to get some quality sleep.
Number two, use blue blocking glasses reduce blue light.
Speaker 3 (48:12):
More likely to so your melatonin is not suppressed and
that way you can fall asleep easier. Number three, if
I'm taking any supplement, I like magnesium magnesium glystinate, I
take anywhere from two hundred to four hundred milligrams. Number four,
(48:39):
keep that room cool anywhere from sixty to sixty seven
degrees fahrenheit. The cooler the better. Five I like using
an eye covers or at least having a.
Speaker 2 (48:51):
Room blacker than black, darker than dark, blacker than black,
blackout bloods for realsies. Six some people like the air plugs.
I don't like them the feeling in my ears, but
I know in our household, like Wifie, she loves using
the air plugs. Number seven regular bedtime, trying to go
(49:17):
bed at the same time and waking up at the
same time on a regular basis. And number eight that
I would say, get out as soon as you can
to get some of that vitamin D that sunshine, get your.
Speaker 3 (49:31):
Circadian rhythm on point. And actually I got a bonus one.
Number nine, do not eat too close to bedtime. I
think that's another one that it could be a subtle
one that people that we forget about a white folks
sleep hacks one on one right there. If you enjoy that,
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we're promoting, all these things that we're getting behind, is
on that preventative side, on that proactive side, so that
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(50:29):
I hope you're feeling a little bit more jumping your
step after that episode. Thanks for listening. Talk real soon.
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you don't even know what right is.
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