In October, TBRHSC will launch a first-ever Workplace Breast Screening Challenge to encourage staff who are 50 and over to register with the Ontario Breast Screening Program and schedule their first ever Screening Mammogram. TBRHSC Departments, as well as other Thunder Bay businesses will be invited to join the Workplace Challenge Campaign.

The Campaign’s goal is to register 300 new women as clients of the Ontario Breast Screening Program (OBSP); 150 from TBRHSC and 150 from additional workplaces in Thunder Bay. If an additional 300 eligible women become OBSP clients in this fiscal year, screening volumes in the region could reach close to 10,000 and bring us closer to the Cancer 2020 target of 90% of all eligible women screened in Ontario. Currently our participation rate in the Northwest is 46%.

The Goals of the campaign are to:

• To increase awareness and knowledge of the importance of breast screening and early detection for women at TBRHSC and in other Thunder Bay workplaces
• To encourage eligible, but never-screened, women at TBRHSC and Thunder Bay workplaces to participate in breast screening
• To increase overall participation rates by eligible women (50 years of age and over) in Thunder Bay

If you are 50 and over and do not currently participate in OBSP, we invite you to make your first OBSP appointment for a screening mammogram. We also invite family members of TBRHSC staff to participate including, spouses, partners, mothers, sisters, aunts, daughters, grandmothers. All participating women will receive a special gift at the time of their Mammogram appointment.

The Workplace Breast Screening Challenge is the kick off event for the newly formed TBRHSC Wellness Committee. The goal of the Wellness Committee is to promote and achieve self directed health and wellness initiatives within the Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre community.

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