This award was formally named “Living with Illness”. 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.
This award was formally named “Living with Illness”. 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. The HealthConnection Clinic is located across the street from Lion’s Gate Hospital in North Vancouver and features an interdisciplinary professional…
This award was formally named “Staying Healthy”. 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. Access to public health perinatal services varies by community and some areas do not have a standard process in…
Improving Respiratory Care for Neonatal Patients In 2006 an informal review of emergencies in St. Paul’s Hospital’s Neonatal ICU (NICU) found inconsistency in care and team expectations around respiratory therapy services. That’s when Michelle Dungo-Sales started improving and promoting safe delivery of neonatal respiratory care. Respiratory therapists in the NICU are responsible for stabilizing and…
Erin McGarvey works tirelessly to lead an impressive team within Interior Health’s Lean Promotion Office. According to the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, “Lean thinking begins with driving out waste so that all work adds value and serves the customer’s needs.” Traditionally, Lean work was not fully coordinated in Interior Health as small, continuous improvement projects…
This award was formally named “Coping with End of Life”. 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. The remote and rural community of Fraser Lake does not have a hospice house, a long-term…
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. Opioid overdose is a major public health issue in BC. Death or significant morbidity such as pulmonary edema, pneumonia…
This award was formally named “Staying Healthy”. 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. Each year, unintentional injuries are the number one killer of British Columbians under age 45, and they kill more…
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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.