In this issue:

A message from our CEO

• SHA's role in the Patients First Health Care Plan

Clinical Information

• Revised Maternal Newborn Specialty Service Disruption Work Standard
• Service transition notice - Lymphedema Clinic to Breast Therapy Program

Staff Information

• Mandatory Cybersecurity Training – deadline March 31
• Introduction to Cultural Responsiveness Training - provide your feedback
• Creative Innovation Award - turning challenges into opportunities
• Patient Safety Talk - safety improvements

Notice Board

• Stories of Resiliency and Reconciliation
• Ethics Exchange - Living our Values Together
• Belonging, Diversity and Inclusion - Understanding Intersectionality
• Social Work and Evidence Based Practice
• Fundamentals of Fetal Health Surveillance
• Learning Essential Approaches to Palliative Care Paramedic
• Acute Care of the at-Risk Newborn (ACoRN)

Clinical Documentation

• Clinical Forms Catalogue

A message from our CEO 

SHA's role in the Patients First Health Care Plan

​​​​​​​A message from Andrew Will, Chief Executive Officer, Saskatchewan Health Authority

Earlier this week, the Government of Saskatchewan released the Patients First Health Care Plan. At its core, it reinforces a simple but powerful commitment: patients come first, and the work you do every day is central to making that real for people across our province.

Meaningful progress is already underway in the Saskatchewan health system, including expanded access to care, increased diagnostic and surgical capacity, strengthened recruitment, and important steps to modernize how care is delivered. That progress exists because of your dedication, skill, and commitment to patients, often in challenging circumstances. Thank you for the professionalism and compassion you bring to your work every day.

Looking ahead, the Patients First Health Care Plan identifies important opportunities to further strengthen care delivery. This includes the continued expansion of the role of Nurse Practitioners in primary care, with greater involvement in acute and long-term care, along with expanded training seats and new incentives for Registered Nurses to pursue Nurse Practitioner education. These changes will help connect more patients to care while strengthening team-based models across the system.

There is also a clear intent for Saskatchewan to lead the country in enabling all health professionals to practice to the full extent of their training. When providers are supported to work to the top of their scope, patients benefit from timelier, more coordinated care, and teams are better supported.

A stronger system focus is also being placed on how we work together across organizations. The mandate of partner organizations, including the Saskatchewan Healthcare Recruitment Agency, is being strengthened to support recruitment efforts across the province. This allows the Saskatchewan Health Authority to remain focused on our core mandate: delivering high quality health services and supporting the people who provide that care.

Expanded use of virtual care represents another important step forward, helping ensure unattached patients have accessible primary care options and reducing unnecessary pressure on emergency departments, particularly in rural and northern communities.

At the same time, continued investment in expanded training and residency seats through partnerships with the College of Medicine and other post-secondary institutions will help ensure long term stability for our health system.

None of this work happens in isolation. We will continue to work closely with the Ministry of Health, the Saskatchewan Healthcare Recruitment Agency, educational partners, and communities across the province to deliver on a patient first focus across the health system.

Thank you for the care you provide, the teamwork you demonstrate, and the pride you take in serving the people of Saskatchewan. Together, we are making progress, and together we will continue to strengthen care for our patients and support the safety and well-being of our staff and physicians.

With appreciation,

Andrew Will
Chief Executive Officer
Saskatchewan Health Authority
 

 Clinical Information 

Revised Maternal Newborn Specialty Service Disruption Work Standard

The Maternal Newborn Speciality Service Disruption has been revised to align with the Work Standard Logging a Service Disruption. Please review the work standard and actions required when experiencing a obstetrical service disruption and/or change in level of service on the  Service Disruption Process - Resources webpage.

🌐Service Disruption Process - Resources

Service transition notice - Lymphedema Clinic to Breast Therapy Program

On February 23, the Lymphedema Clinic located at the Regina Pasqua Hospital has integrated into the Regina Breast Health Centre as part of the Breast Therapy Program at Regina Centre Crossing.

This change reflects a consolidation of cancer rehabilitation and lymphedema management services to support team-based and coordinated patient-centred care.

The new location will result in new contact numbers:

• Regina Centre Crossing, 124 – 1621 Albert Street
  Phone: 306-766-0150
  Fax: 306-910-1010

The Breast Health Centre provides support for any cancer diagnoses, including breast and non-breast cancers, for the following:

• Cancer-related lymphedema care
• Cancer rehabilitation
• Pre- and post-surgical care
• Care after radiation treatment

As part of this move, new referrals for patients with primary lymphedema or non-cancer related secondary lymphedema should now be directed to private lymphedema specialists and/or vendors that provide compression therapy within their community.

If you have questions about this change, please contact the new Breast Therapy Program by phone at 306-766-0150.

 Staff Information 

Mandatory Cybersecurity Training –  deadline March 31

The SHA is currently at 72 per cent completion for mandatory Cybersecurity Training. We would like to extend our gratitude to all staff who have already completed the training. For those who have not yet completed, please be aware that the deadline to finish this mandatory training is March 31.

To help ensure all staff complete the training on time, email reminders will continue to be sent twice a week until the training has been completed. Please use the link provided in the email from noreply@terranovasite.com to access and complete the training. Executive Directors will also receive monthly reports identifying staff who have not yet completed the mandatory training, enabling them to follow up and support timely completion.

Security incidents can occur at any time, making it essential that everyone is well-prepared and knowledgeable about the tactics cybercriminals employ to breach our systems. Completing this training may enable you to prevent an attack against the SHA, helping to safeguard our sensitive information, protect our systems and productivity, and ensure the safety of our patients.

If you have any questions regarding the training, please contact Digital Health at SHADigitalHealth@saskhealthauthority.ca.

Introduction to Cultural Responsiveness Training - provide your feedback

Thank you for completing the required Introduction to Cultural Responsiveness training. We welcome your feedback on how the training helped increase your knowledge and understanding of cultural responsiveness. 

Following completion of the survey, you can enter to win an Indigenous inspired scrub hat and release lanyard by Métis Artist Marlyn Black along with an SHA Every Child Matters Orange shirt and a $30 Tim Hortons Card.

Introduction to Cultural Responsiveness training provides an historical overview of Indigenous peoples in Canada. Topics include the impact of the Treaties; the meaning of the term “Indigenous”; the difference between “status” and “non-status”; diverse and distinct approaches, views, and ways of living; and more.

Still need to take the training? The course is available through MyConnection> MyLearning> Search All Modules> Cultural Responsiveness > Introduction to Cultural Responsiveness.

🌐Complete survey

Creative Innovation Award - turning challenges into opportunities

Some of the best innovations come from rolling up your sleeves and making the most of what you have. The Creative Innovation Award honours projects that embrace ingenuity, adaptability, and hands-on problem-solving. Our 2025 Creative Innovation Award recipient was the Rural Trauma Team Development Course Provincial Initiative.

This initiative addressed delivering timely, high-quality trauma care across geographically dispersed communities in Saskatchewan. The Rural Trauma Team Development Course delivers flexible, on-site, multidisciplinary trauma training tailored to the needs of rural teams, using discussions, skill demonstrations, and realistic simulations that allow participants to practice in their own clinical environment.

By strengthening team-based skills and fostering stronger connections between rural providers, transport services, and urban trauma specialists, the program improves communication, preparedness, and the quality of trauma interventions. Ultimately, this initiative promotes greater equity in trauma care across the province, enhances provider confidence and collaboration, and supports safer, more effective outcomes for patients regardless of where they live.

Know a project, team or individual that fits the Creative Innovation category?  Recoginize their innovative work by filling out a nomination form before March 20. 
 

Patient Safety Talk - safety improvements

The higher a patient safety improvement is on the hierarchy of effectiveness, the more effective it is at preventing harm. Higher leverage improvements focus on system reliability and not human reliability.

What is a high leverage patient safety improvement that has been or could be implemented in your work area?

Please read the Safety Talk and share with your teams.

📄Patient Safety Talk

 Notice Board

Stories of Resiliency and Reconciliation 

Date: March 12
Time: 5 p.m.
Location: Auditorium, Regina General Hospital, Regina SK or Virtual

Join the Department of Surgery's Grand Rounds for a presentation on stories of resiliency and reconciliation presented by Kevin Chief. Learn more from Kevin on how to:

• foster meaningful connections with others and build understanding;
• reflect on how the ideas and stories shared can inform personal growth and professional development;
• develop actionable steps—small or large—to strengthen ongoing relationships with Indigenous peoples and communities.

Contact surgery.dept@usask.ca to join virtually through Zoom.

📄Poster - Grand Rounds

Ethics Exchange - Living our Values Together

Date: March 18
Time: 11 a.m. - 12. p.m.
Location: Virtual

Join Lori James – Director of Mission and Spiritual Care, LutherCare Communities, Saskatchewan who will present Living our Values Together in the Ethics Exchange on Wednesday, March 18. 

Lori will share the story of how LutherCare Communities engaged staff, listened deeply, and discerned a clear and accessible set of core values. She will also share how those values are now being lived, embodied, and sustained across the organization with focus on the process of developing values, the importance of clarity and culture in health systems, and the ways values become tangible in care, relationships, and decision-making. Join live using the link on the poster below. 

📄Poster - March Ethics Exchange

Belonging, Diversity and Inclusion - Understanding Intersectionality

Date: March 17 and 18, April 21 and 23
Time: 12 - 1 p.m.
Location: Virtual

All staff are invited to attend a lunch and learn training session focused on intersectionality. These sessions introduce intersectionality as a practical framework for understanding how people's identities, lived experiences, and how roles intersect and shape how people experience care, the workplace, and health outcomes.

Participants will explore how increased awareness of these intersections supports more compassionate, respectful, and equitable care for patients and families, while also strengthening team relationships and psychological safety.

Note:  March 19 event was rescheduled to March 18. The session time remains the same. If you registered for March 19, your invite will automatically be updated.

🌐Register

Social Work and Evidence Based Practice

Date: March 24
Time: 2:30 - 3:30 p.m.
Location: Virtual

The SHA Registered Social Workers Community of Practice (regardless of job title) will be exploring evidence-based practice within Social Work, presented by SHA Librarian Mark Mueller. This session explores the use of evidence-based practice, exploring Social Work information needs and learn about new resources. This will also be an opportunity to take part and have your voice heard on the redesign of the SHA Library Social Work Resource page.  

Contact Brina Down, Manager of Professional Practice, Social Work if you have any questions. View the SharePoint site below for more information.

🌐Registered Social Workers Sharepoint

Fundamentals of Fetal Health Surveillance

Date: March 27 and 28
Time: 8:30 - 11:30 a.m. and 12:30 - 3:30 p.m.
Location: Virtual

The course is intended for practitioners (nurses, physicians, registered midwives) with clinical experience as part of their regular review of fetal health surveillance knowledge, skills and clinical decision making as well as new obstetrical care pro-viders as an adjunct to their facility orientation program.

🌐Register

Learning Essential Approaches to Palliative Care Paramedic

There are spots available for Learning Essential Approaches to Palliative Care (LEAP) Paramedic course offered on March 18. There will be approximately 8 hours of self-learning online modules that must be completed prior to attending the facilitated virtual class on December 16. These modules can be done at your own pace. There is no cost to attend and is open to all paramedics in the province. Please forward to those you feel might be interested. 

🌐Register

Acute Care of the at-Risk Newborn (ACoRN)

Date: April 15 and 16
Time: 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Location: La Loche Health Centre, La Loche, SK

The Acute Care of the at-risk Newborn (ACoRN) workshop provides health-care professionals with the knowledge and skills of neonatal resuscitation, assessment and management of the at-risk newborn. Participants must complete an on-line exam prior to the in-person component. The workshop utilizes simulation based education and debriefing to support team-based approach to care. For more information, contact jenna.lockert@saskhealthauthority.ca.

🌐Register

 Clinical Documentation

Clinical Forms Catalogue

The SHA Clinical Forms Catalogue has been split into two catalogues due to an issue with the webpage. The vendor is looking into the issue for a resolution so that all clinical forms will be on one webpage which makes it easier to search using the “control F” function. In the interim, the Clinical Forms Catalogue has been split as follows:

🌐Clinical Forms Catalogue

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