The Impact of our Circle of Life – Inner Circle Members
Our Circle of Life Inner Circle members play a vital role in helping to transform healthcare at Guelph General Hospital. Since 2013, this group of individuals has pooled their funds to support important hospital projects every year. Members contribute to a collective fund throughout the calendar year and then have the chance to vote on what project, presented by hospital staff, they would like to support at year end.
In December of 2024 our Inner Circle members decided to support the digitization of pathology at Guelph General Hospital. Digital pathology uses modern technology to eliminate the need for a microscope and stacks of physical slides in order to review various specimens. A digital pathology slides scanner is used to convert traditional glass slides into high-resolution digital images. This digital image is then examined using an image viewing software with advanced machine learning features and functions, empowering pathologists to make diagnoses more accurately and faster.
Bringing digital pathology to Guelph General will mean that the hospital is able to improve the accuracy and precision of diagnoses while also reducing turn-around time for loved ones and community members waiting on sensitive results. Implementing digital pathology will also free up physical office space in the department and function as an incentive in the recruitment of pathologist to our local hospital.
As only one of a few hospitals to have this technology, Guelph General Hospital will also be an early adopter of digital pathology in Ontario and Canada more broadly.
Additional past projects that the Inner Circle has supported include the following:
• 2023: 2 new hematology analyzers for the Laboratory
• 2022: 2 new ultrasound machines for Diagnostic Imaging
• 2021: A facture table and hip and knee replacement instruments for various operating rooms
• 2020: 5 portable ultrasound machines for various departments
• 2019: 8 ventilators for the Bob Ireland Family Intensive Care Unit
• 2018: 58 dedicated bedside vital signs monitors for the entire hospital
• 2017: A 3D-enabled digital mammography machine for Diagnostic Imaging
• 2016: A Rapid Infection Identification System (MALDI-TOF) for the Laboratory
We are so grateful for the continued support our Circle of Life – Inner Circle members provide to the hospital. Thank you!
If you are interested in joining these champions of change for Guelph General, please reach out to Deanne Leblanc by either email or telephone at [email protected] or 519-837-6440 ext. 2007.
If you are interested in joining these champions of change for Guelph General, please reach out to Deanne Leblanc by either email or telephone at [email protected] or 519-837-6440 ext. 2007.
