To Bleed or Not to Bleed

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. Patients with severe hemophilia (genetic bleeding disorders) are at risk for debilitating bleeds that require emergency transfusion of…

The HealthConnection Clinic: Providing Primary Care for Vulnerable Members of Society

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…

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…

Mobile Latent Tuberculosis Infection Testing for Aboriginal Communities

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. In Canada, Aboriginals are more likely to have Latent Tuberculosis than Canadian-born non-Aboriginals because of their social determinants of…

Michelle Dungo-Sales

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…

Guy Fradet & Carol Laberge

Under the leadership of Drs. Guy Fradet and Carol Laberge, Kelowna General Hospital implemented a Cardiac Surgery Program in December 2012. The program ensures that patients living throughout the Interior have access to timely cardiac care closer to home. In prior times, patients would have to travel to the Lower Mainland and leave family and…

Marla Bjorgan

Harnessing the Community to Better Care for At-Risk Populations Marla Bjorgan is a Public Health Nurse described as creative, meticulous, caring, organized and inspiring in many facets of her work.When Marla took on the portfolio of Harm Reduction Public Health Nurse Coordinator she immediately saw a need for improvement and change. There were only basic…