Northern Health PharmaNet (Medinet) Pilot Medication Reconcilitation at Admission

This award was formally named “Getting Better”. Our Excellence in Quality category names changed in 2020 to reflect the updates to our BC Health Quality Matrix. Visit our Categories and Criteria page to find out more. Medication errors have a substantial impact on patient outcomes and system resources (medication reconciliation is beneficial and cost effective)….

A Walk In Crisis Counselling Team

This award was formally named “Getting Better”. Our Excellence in Quality category names changed in 2020 to reflect the updates to our BC Health Quality Matrix. Visit our Categories and Criteria page to find out more. Team: Terry Waterland – Mental Health Therapist Debra Palmer – Mental Health Therapist Rick Stordeur – Mental Health Therapist Santanna Rose – Crisis…

A Changing Culture

This award was formally named “Getting Better”. Our Excellence in Quality category names changed in 2020 to reflect the updates to our BC Health Quality Matrix. Visit our Categories and Criteria page to find out more. Team: Registered Nurses – 70 Emergency Department Physicians – 26 Nursing Unit Assistants – 10 Registered Care Aides – 6 Social Work – 2…

Vancouver General Hospital Pre‐surgical Decolonization Team

This award was formally named “Getting Better”. Our Excellence in Quality category names changed in 2020 to reflect the updates to our BC Health Quality Matrix. Visit our Categories and Criteria page to find out more. “How can we improve?” That’s the question that a multidisciplinary team at Vancouver General Hospital (VGH) asked when considering…

Releasing Time to Care at Squamish General Hospital & Richmond Hospital

This award was formally named “Getting Better”. Our Excellence in Quality category names changed in 2020 to reflect the updates to our BC Health Quality Matrix. Visit our Categories and Criteria page to find out more. Since April 2012 Squamish General Hospital and three nursing units from Richmond Hospital have been implementing a program called…

The BC Provincial Renal Agency’s Glomerulonephritis Formulary

This award was formally named “Getting Better”. Our Excellence in Quality category names changed in 2020 to reflect the updates to our BC Health Quality Matrix. Visit our Categories and Criteria page to find out more. Glomerulonephritis is a group of kidney diseases characterized by injury or inflammation of the glomeruli (the tiny units within…