Reducing Wait Times for BC Children’s Hospital for PICC Lines

Reducing Wait Times for BC Children’s Hospital for PICC Lines

Children who are cared for at BC Children’s Hospital (BCCH) are able to receive timely treatment closer to home – and in some cases, at home itself – thanks to the innovative work of BCCH’s POKe and PIVOT team. The POKe (PICC Opportunities for Kids) and PIVOT (Pediatric IV Outpatient Therapy) team is a combined interdisciplinary team at BCCH, formed to both reduce the waiting time for PICC insertions for IV therapy and increase access to outpatient services.

Radioactive Seeds for Breast Cancer Surgery

Radioactive Seeds for Breast Cancer Surgery

An improvement initiative to find alternative solutions for localizing breast cancers and breast lesions in need of surgical removal has led to the use of a radioactive seeds as a new technique. This has not only increased patient safety and satisfaction but has also resulted in time and cost savings at Fraser Health. The seeds, which are no larger than a grain of rice, are used as an alternative to fine wire localization, and are now the standard across Fraser Health hospitals where breast cancer surgery is performed.

Connect and Recover: Injury Management Program

Connect and Recover: Injury Management Program

After realizing that gaps in coordination of care were leading to critical safety events for children with cardiac conditions during non-cardiac surgery, an interdisciplinary team at BC Children’s Hospital sprung into action. Together, they developed a protocol that has brought the number of critical safety events down to zero, ensuring safer care for their vulnerable young patients.

Situation Critical: Improving Patient Safety for High-Risk Cardiac Patients Undergoing Non-Cardiac Procedures

After realizing that gaps in coordination of care were leading to critical safety events for children with cardiac conditions during non-cardiac surgery, an interdisciplinary team at BC Children’s Hospital sprung into action. Together, they developed a protocol that has brought the number of critical safety events down to zero, ensuring safer care for their vulnerable…

Getting to the Right Place: Implementation of Triage and Transportation Guidelines in Fraser Health

Over 450,000 people are treated in emergency departments across BC each year. The most severely injured among them experience better outcomes if they’re treated at designated trauma centres which are best equipped to care for patients with serious, life-threatening injuries. In order to improve health outcomes for patients with major trauma, BC Emergency Services (BCEHS),…