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)….
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. The Metabolic Syndrome Program is an intensive self-management support program targeting lifestyle behaviour change for the prevention and reduction…
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. In 2003, Fraser Health committed to an initiative called “Let’s Talk” to address the advance care…
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 new program allows hemodialysis patients to set individual goals to enhance self care & promote independent dialysis,…
The BCCH Emergency Department team, is living the value of “Patients first”. Creating a sustained environment of enquiry and desire to improve, the aim is to reduce wait time, while increasing patient and family understanding of why they are waiting. For more information, please contact: Kris Gustavson Corporate Director, Patient Experience Provincial Health Services Authority…
Annemarie Taylor has been instrumental in building and strengthening a culture of patient safety across British Columbia and Canada. Her focus for over 10 years has been to support health care providers in making health care safer for patients in BC. Annemarie accomplished this by implementing a provincial safety event reporting and management system using…
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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.