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The Real-Time Virtual Support Network is a team-based, wrap-around service that links rural health care providers and patients to virtual physicians, psychiatrists, mental health clinicians, care coordinators and specialists via Zoom videoconferencing or telephone. It also offers multiple ways for patients and providers to access culturally safe care and support.
The Outreach Urban Health Clinic in Kelowna is an innovative clinic that provides primary care, mental health and harm reduction in one location – these services were previously dispersed across different locations.
Until 2017, drug benefits for First Nations individuals were provided by the federal government. When the First Nations Health Authority (FNHA) transitioned that benefit program into the provincial PharmaCare program, they noticed something concerning: many Indigenous Peoples, particularly seniors, were prescribed a large number of medications. Polypharmacy, which is what it is called when individuals…
Healthy habits formed in childhood can benefit individuals for the rest of their lives, which is one reason why the Spirit of Healthy Kids Regional Program stands out for its impact in northern communities. The program is the result of an innovative partnership between junior ice hockey team the Prince George Cougars, the Spirit of…
This award was formerly 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. Nanaimo Regional General Hospital (NRGH) implemented barcode scanning of patients and medications in March 2016 but scanning rates stayed…
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 overdose public health emergency has significantly impacted first responders, frontline workers and people with lived and/or living experience….
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 Fall-unteer program is a volunteer-based falls prevention strategy started by the long-term care team at Providence Health Care’s…
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 IMAGINE Community Grants program provides funding to community-based health improvement initiatives across northern BC. By investing upstream to…
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…
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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.