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Tuesday February 9, 2010

The Sasha Bella Fund is a tribute to Sasha Bella Stein-Blumberg, first daughter of Pamela Stein and Jonathan Blumberg, president of The Wire.

Be a part of it! Pledge or donate to the 2009 Sasha Bella Fund Fun Day for SickKids and Bloorview Kids Rehab.

Sasha bravely tolerated many interventions at SickKids until at 18 months she suffered complications after the 2nd cardiac surgery. After five months at SickKids Sasha came home for 5 precious weeks of family visits, strolls and her second birthday and she died peacefully June 20th, 2006. Her sister Mia was born 12 hours later.

The top photo was taken by Heather Rivlin for Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep.


      The Sasha Bella Fund For Family-Centred Care

Family Centred Care

Pediatric Palliative Care

Family centred care listens to and incorporates patient and parent choices, perspectives and beliefs into care plans and institution-wide; shares complete, unbiased and timely information in useful ways so patients and families can participate as they are comfortable; collaborates with families in delivery of care, policy and program development, implementation and evaluation, facility design and professional education. Projects: Nursing Award for Excellence in Family-Centred Care, Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Family Care Group, mural for physio-therapy program, child and caregiver music group, editable website for Toronto Critical Care Nurses.

Bringing Sasha home to die was a positive outcome for Sasha and her family after 5 months of diminishing quality of life in hospital. Yet only 8-12% of Canadian children needing advanced palliative care get these resources. With SickKids Palliative Care Service, the Fund created an Innovation Fund for palliative care research and The Wire built the website for the TRAC-PG national palliative research network. The Fund will be a key sponsor for a first Palliative Care Research Symposium to be held October 14, 2009.

Interprofessional Practise

Support Sickkids Hospital

Effective communication within and between medical specialist teams is vital to family-centred care. IPP raises patient safety and family and staff satisfaction scores and better uses capacity. Barriers to family-centred IPP include hospital hierarchy, care complexity, unit specific culture and even staff style. The Fund spoke at and sponsored the first SickKids IPP Education Week in 2007, supports a story project to allow family centred review of challenging care plans and created a new hospital-wide IPP award.

You can see a detailed list of the The Sasha Bella Fund's low cost, high impact, family directed initiatives at Sickkids and can support the Fund online or by calling Laurel Shillingford at 416 813 7588. Corporate sponsors please call 416 214 9473 x30.

Thank You! Sasha on December 3, 2005, a few weeks before her second surgery

 
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