It was a race against the clock on Jan. 11 for Joanna Schubert, clinical manager for the Ottawa Hospital Civic Campus. A double-decker city bus had struck a transit shelter at Westboro station, near the Ottawa River, and seven people with severe injuries were taken to the hospital. As a clinical manager, Schubert is responsible for organizing the preparation of the hospital’s operating rooms (OR). She needs to have ORs staffed, equipped and ready for patients as they arrive.  “We had to make sure we could accommodate the people from the bus accident, but also (others) if something else happened to come through the doors,” she says. Luckily, dedicated staff members called to inquire about coming to help out before Schubert had a chance to ask them. As a result, she had enough staff to run as many as eight ORs if necessary. “It takes a lot of teamwork to manage (this) kind of thing, and it was a privilege to have been part of something like (this),” says Schubert. (Ottawa Citizen, Jan. 17)