Health Care Support Workers Week is October 15 - 19
October 10, 2012 at 12:22 PM
The proclamation issued by Minister of Health Theresa Oswald, notes that “health care support workers make a valuable contribution to the day-to-day well-being and health of all Manitobans in hospitals, clinics, nursing homes, chronic care and long-term care facilities, schools, communities and homes".
Local 500 represents members at Riverview Health Centre and Winnipeg Regional Health Authority who provide a wide range of services such as housekeeping, sterilizing and maintaining equipment, cooking and serving meals, laundry, clerical personnel, activity workers’, among others.
"Health care support workers are important and essential to our health care system,” said Mike Davidson, President of CUPE Local 500. “I’m pleased to see that their contributions and commitment to patient care are being recognized and I commend our members for their dedicated efforts day in and day out.”
Across Manitoba, CUPE members working health care use the week to build relations with their patients and their communities. Information events, coffee and cake parties, open houses and displays are being organized by CUPE members during the week.
Click here to download the proclamation.
