Morbidity and Mortality (M&M) Rounds are an excellent platform for clinicians to review colleagues’ cases and learn from their experiences. But to be effective, they require engagement, thoughtful case selection, and a plan for disseminating the learning outcomes. In 2006, M&M Rounds at the Providence Health Care Heart Centre were held up to twice a…
Louise Johnson has been improving and innovating long-term care for seniors with dementia for well over three decades. As a Quality Coordinator at Park Place Seniors Living, Louise has fostered an organization-wide culture shift, changing both workplace philosophy at Park Place and the quality of care received by people and their families. Her vision has…
The University of British Columbia’s accelerated Bachelor of Science in Nursing is one of the shortest BSN programs in Canada. In 18 months, the school shapes its students’ professional identities: their ethics, professional standards, and their niche within the health care system. The School of Nursing’s curriculum and placements include community health, but the faculty…
An engaged team can create a workplace culture that positively impacts the quality of care, and one way to drive engagement is for staff to be recognized and provided with support to make changes and improvements where they see fit. Fraser Health, acknowledging a need to foster high-performing, healthy teams, developed an Engagement Radicals Network….
Through her inspired vision and creative methods for trying new ideas, Jo-Ann is reminding everyone of the passion that brought them to long-term care. If you walk into a care home that has implemented her initiatives, you will see more smiles, hear more laughter and feel the pride that has come with making changes that…
This information is collected by Health Quality BC under section 26(c) of the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act and will be used to email you our newsletter. If you have any questions about the collection of this information, please contact: info@healthqualitybc.ca or 604.668.8210.
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.