Employee Wellness a priority for PMH
“Health and Wellness for All” is the vision for Prairie Mountain Health, and the Employee Wellness team believes that vision starts with our own staff! Our committee’s expressed goal is “Healthy employees, healthy workplace, healthy community”. Boosting staff morale was assigned a significant priority in 2023-2024 and a new committee was formed to assist with this task. The PMH Social Committee consists of staff representation from across the health region and plans and hosts fun activities and events for PMH staff, physicians, volunteers and Shared Health staff working out of PMH facilities. This past year, the two teams came together to bring our staff larger free events such as;
Family Beach Day. All staff were invited to bring their families to Minnedosa Beach for a free barbecue, face painting, activities and free admission to the Splish Splash Water Park.
PMH Day at the Movies. Movie theatres were rented out in Brandon, Dauphin and Swan River and staff were invited to sign up to bring their families for free movie admission and popcorn.
Prairie Mountain Regional Museum Family Day. All staff were invited to bring their families to the museum located near Shoal Lake where they could enjoy free mini golf, a petting zoo, pony/wagon rides, museum tours, and a wiener roast.
Over the past year, staff may also have noticed food trucks parked outside their facilities offering staff a discount, dipped their toes in the water at the free family fun swim in Swan River, played a round of indoor golf in Souris or won free tickets to the Westman yoga festival.
The PMH Employee Wellness committee has been successfully supporting teamwork and comradery across the region through a special funding initiative whereby staff can apply for financial support to plan fun activities and events for their department or program. Over 100 applications were received in 2023-24 and staff from over 60 different facilities enjoyed team-building experiences such as:
- Corn mazes
- Flower picking
- Paint nights
- Bowling nights
- Golfing/golf simulators
- Spin classes
- Pizza making & cupcake decorating workshops
- Pottery painting
- Gardening workshops and many more.
The Employee Wellness committee recognizes that by prioritizing our staff’s mental, physical, emotional and spiritual wellbeing we are helping them to better care for you, our clients.
