Date Published: March 5th, 2019
This session featured three different presentations: Safety Passport: Promoting Patient Safety for Health Care Providers Improving Patient Safety Reporting in Pre-Hospital Care Safety Learning System: Learning from Every Death…
Date Published: January 3rd, 2019
At Quips, Quandaries And Comebacks: A Quality Debate, four great speakers debated an important – and contentious – claim related to improving the quality of care in BC’s health system: Accountability hinders improvement. “FOR” Team Lakshman Swamy Internal Medicine Resident, Boston Medical Center Linda Dempster Vice-President, Patient Experience, Fraser Health…
Date Published: January 3rd, 2019
Lakshman Swamy is an internal medicine resident at Boston Medical Center on the QI Pathway. He has worked extensively with the Institute for Health Care Improvement’s Open School, and created and directs Radio Rounds, a non-profit which features interviews with leaders in health care. During his plenary presentation at Quality…
Date Published: January 3rd, 2019
Jim Easton has been an executive in the health care system in England for over 25 years, where he has held leadership positions in hospital services, mental health, primary care and national policy. During his plenary presentation at Quality Forum 2016, Jim told us his five big ideas that can…
Date Published: January 3rd, 2019
Cheryl Mitchell is a freelance facilitator and advisor in the health care industry and public service who has provided organizational systems solutions for more than 20 years. She holds a PhD in Human and Organizational Systems, where her dissertation research focused on blame in the health care system. During her…
Date Published: January 3rd, 2019
We asked Michael McMillan to tell us about his hopes for health care. On February 24, 2016, Michael talked to us about his experiences with the health system from the perspective of a son, a father and a grandfather. Michael McMillan is a Chief Operating Officer for Northern Health, working…
Date Published: January 3rd, 2019
We asked Joshua Greggain to tell us about his hopes for health care. On February 24, 2016, Joshua took the audience for a tour through the thousands of health care workers and hundreds of thousands of patients that populate health care in rural or isolated environments. Joshua is a rural…
Date Published: January 3rd, 2019
We asked Jessica Kim to tell us about her hopes for health care. On February 24, 2016, Jessica talked to us about her hopes for the future of care for immigrants and refugees. The winner of our Health Talks Student Contest, Jessica Kim is a fourth-year Health Sciences student at…
Date Published: January 3rd, 2019
We asked Evan Adams to tell us about his hopes for health care. On February 24, 2016, Evan talked to us about what it means to provide better holistic, culturally safe health care for First Nations populations in BC. Evan is a Coast Salish physician and actor from the Sliammon…
Date Published: January 3rd, 2019
We asked Dena Kanigan to tell us about her hopes for health care. On February 24, 2016, Dena talked to us about her experience as a nurse in a long-term care facility, and about the joy and dignity she works to bring to those at end of life. Dena is…
Date Published: March 11th, 2022
Four great speakers argued for and against this important – and divided – motion related to improving the quality of care in BC’s health system!
