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 chronic conditions often navigate multiple care interfaces and may experience fragmented care. Ideally care should be…
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. Since April 2012 Squamish General Hospital and three nursing units from Richmond Hospital have been implementing a program called…
Dr. Michael Noble is an ardent leader for medical laboratory quality in a health system where most care decisions are based on medical laboratory information. His accomplishments span four decades and speak for themselves. In 1983 Michael established the first pan-Canadian medical laboratory quality assessment program, named Clinical Microbiology Proficiency Testing (CMPT). CMPT soon became…
As the Manager of Facilities and Housekeeping at Abbotsford’s Menno Place, which provides long-term care for 700 people, Bas Kervel oversees the quality of cleaning in the care home’s six buildings. Several instances of housekeeping team members suffering allergic reactions and sensitivity to cleaning products as well as his concern for people who suffer cognitive…
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 September 2011 the Ministry of Health introduced Advance Care Planning legislation that required health 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. Patients with severe hemophilia (genetic bleeding disorders) are at risk for debilitating bleeds that require emergency transfusion of…
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 team at North Vancouver’s Kiwanis Care Centre believes that good quality end-of-life care should be…
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…
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…
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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.