"It was really fun," said Joan Gibson, the chairperson of the Colchester East Hants Health Foundation, who was on the winning team in the question and answer event that kicked off Quality Week. "When you do something like this, you don't know where the trivia is going to come from, and sometimes I'm a little slow on the draw."
That didn't stop Gibson, however, from correctly answering a number of questions in a row to the applause of the crowd that gathered around the teams.
"Once it became competitive, it was a lot of fun," she added.
At the end of the event, it was the team Gibson was on - with teammates Jim Wells, a supervisor with Emergency Health Services, Truro-Bible Hill-Salmon River-Millbrook MLA Lenore Zann (who had Raj Makkar with the hospital step in until she arrived), and Kay Archibald with the Truro Fire Service. The opposing team consisted of Truro Mayor Bill Mills, Sheila Peck, the board chairperson of the Colchester East Hants Health Authority, Truro Fire Service Chief Blois Currie and Truro Police Service Insp. Rob Hearn.
"There's so much good quality initiatives going on within the health system here and sometimes the public doesn't know it exists," said Danielle Pinkney, acting director of communications for the Colchester East Hants Health Centre about the importance of Quality Week. "This allows us to showcase everything we do have and what we work hard for."
In the past, the health authority used to kick off Quality Week with a hand-washing competition, but decided to mix things up a bit this year.
"There's an educational component (to Quality Week) as well," said Pinkney. "We're able to focus on healthy lifestyles."
Quality Week continues until Thursday, with a number of displays throughout the health authority's coverage area, including Tatamagouche and Elmsdale.
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