Events


Workshop: Fundamentals for Quality Improvement – In-Person

Okanagan room, Coast Capri Hotel 1171 Harvey Avenue, Kelowna, BC

The capability to lead improvement is vital to advancing quality in the health care system. This workshop introduces health care professionals to foundational quality improvement principles and practices required to lead, implement, and sustain quality initiatives within their organization.

2023 Restorative Leadership Symposium

The 2023 Restorative Leadership Symposium, hosted by the Ministry of Health, Health Quality BC and the BC Restorative Circle, this Symposium is an opportunity to gather social sector leadership, with an emphasis on health leadership, to develop and enhance systems understanding and support of restorative approaches at the governance, executive and management levels. Further, this gathering will advance embedding a restorative approach in social sector dispute resolution, healing from harms and systems learning/improvement.

Deprescribing Medications & Diet Changes in Type 2 Diabetes

Online (Zoom)

Remission of type 2 diabetes, using therapeutic nutrition, is now an option for some people. Therefore, health professionals should be aware of the need to rapidly deprescribe medications when patients significantly change their diet. Join us on November 28th to learn which medications should be prioritized and how to effectively reduce or eliminate them to avoid predictable adverse events.

Student Internship Information Session #1

Online (Zoom)

Join us at 1 of 2 30-minute virtual informational sessions about HQBC’s Student Internship program.

If this program is new to you and/or you have additional general questions, we encourage you to attend.

Student Internship Information Session #2

Online (Zoom)

Join us at 1 of 2 30-minute virtual informational sessions about HQBC’s Student Internship program.

If this program is new to you and/or you have additional general questions, we encourage you to attend.

Quality Café: Patient-Centred Rehabilitation in the ICU

Online (Zoom)

Join us to learn about how an inter-professional team optimized the quality of care through improved engagement, outcomes and patient experience by applying the principles of team coordination, communication and patient center care for long-term patients in the ICU.

Workshop: Data-Driven Improvement

Health Quality BC 201-750 Pender St W, Vancouver, BC

Measurement and the effective use of data are cornerstones of any improvement effort, from incremental changes to radical transformations, but it can be difficult to know where to begin. The workshop will explore how data can be used to drive the improvements we wish to see – setting up measurement systems that work, analyzing data to uncover new insights and monitoring improvements over time.

Workshop: Fundamentals for Quality Improvement – In-Person

Health Quality BC 201-750 Pender St W, Vancouver, BC

The capability to lead improvement is vital to advancing quality in the health care system. This workshop introduces health care professionals to foundational quality improvement principles and practices required to lead, implement, and sustain quality initiatives within their organization.

Quality Café: Innovating Delirium Care Practice in the ICU

Online (Zoom)

Improving the quality of care for delirium in the ICU setting involves implementing strategies to prevent, identify, and manage delirium. Join us to hear about the lessons learned from a nurse-led quality improvement initiative at Abbotsford ICU. In this session, learn how you can drive significant practice change using quality improvement methodology.

Workshop: Diving into Human Factors

Health Quality BC 201-750 Pender St W, Vancouver, BC

This interactive skill-building workshop will focus on human factors principles and safety approaches including heuristic analysis, task analysis, usability testing, and the hierarchy of effectiveness. Participants will learn how to apply human factors principles and tools that can be used to help make healthcare safer to deliver quality patient care.

Workshop: Fundamentals for Quality Improvement – Virtual Session

Online (Zoom)

The capability to lead improvement is vital to advancing quality in the health care system. This workshop introduces health care professionals to foundational quality improvement principles and practices required to lead, implement, and sustain quality initiatives within their organization.

Quality Café: Applying QI tools to implement and sustain improvements in MHSU Adult Guardianship

Online (Zoom)

The Adult Guardianship Act provides additional and valuable legislation to support and protect vulnerable adults. In 2022, Interior Health aimed to support 12 Mental Health and Substance Use team leads to increase competency in completing adult guardianship investigations. Join us to learn how they used QI tools for this improvement project including a positive deviance approach for engaging clinicians. Hear about the strategies and steps the team has taken to sustain the progress made during this initiative.  

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Territorial Acknowledgement


We would like to acknowledge that we are living and working with humility and respect on the traditional territories of the First Nations peoples of British Columbia.

We specifically acknowledge and express our gratitude to the keepers of the lands of the ancestral and unceded territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and səl̓ilwətaɁɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations, where our main office is located.

We also recognize Métis people and Métis Chartered Communities, as well as the Inuit and urban Indigenous peoples living across the province on various traditional territories.