President’s Message

OPPORTUNITY FOR RE-EVALUATION

WHAT AN ABSOLUTELY bizarre year! I’m so glad I am a member of CHES to help get us through this pandemic ‘adventure.’ Being able to reach out to other CHES members as we try to navigate through this new healthcare world is proving to be invaluable. And despite the virus’ impact, CHES has managed to make progress on many non-COVID initiatives and has plans for more in the future.

We are close to renewing a number of contracts with various partners to solidify our ability to both run the business of our society and continue to develop offerings and tools for our members, including the newly released set of medical gas training initiatives and the CSA standards online subscription service.

CHES’s financial position is solid. The fiscal foresight our predecessors exercised in previous years is paying off. While other non-profit associations are faltering (or worse), we know CHES will ‘weather the storm’ and be able to meet our member obligations.

What does CHES look like going forward?

Certainly, COVID-19 has forced everyone to rethink how they conduct themselves, what to do and how to do it, CHES included. As an association, we are considering using our current environment to revisit how CHES should evolve not only to manage the next few months but perhaps permanently. For instance, should we re-think how to best manage future chapter and national conferences and our various training offerings? In some respects, this could be a blessing as it forces us to examine who we are, what we do and how we do it, so we can ensure our ability to support our members in the future.

With that, I’d like to again thank everyone for their efforts these last few months. Supporting healthcare as we have done historically is challenging at the best of times. To maintain this level of performance and, in many cases, exceed your institutions’ expectations during this worldwide pandemic is by any metric impressive, and has likely elevated the awareness of the people you work with to the value that we bring to healthcare. I’m very proud to be associated with all of you.

Roger Holliss CHES National president

EARN CONTINUING EDUCATION CREDITS FROM CHES

Members of the Canadian Healthcare Engineering Society can earn free continuing education units (CEU) by reading the Fall 2020 issue of Canadian Healthcare Facilities and passing a quiz based on articles in the issue. Once you’ve read the issue from cover to cover, simply go online to https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/R2PJZFD to take the quiz. CHES members who pass the quiz will be able to claim one contact hour (0.1 CEU) on their CanHCC or CCHFM certificate renewals.

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