Awards were given to two sites in Interior Health, both showing significant results related to falls prevention. Falls prevention teams at Brookhaven Care Centre and Penticton Regional Hospital have both developed creative strategies to reduce the number of falls, the number and severity of fall-related injuries and the use of restraints in their facilities. Brookhaven Care Centre…
Dr. Marsden completed his medical degree at Queen’s University in 1988 and obtained a Canada Emergency Medicine qualification from the College of Family Physicians at UBC. He has been a member of the Emergency Department at St. Paul’s Hospital (“SPH”) since 1992, was appointed a Clinical Instructor in the UBC Department of Family Practice in…
Led by Dr. Blake Gilks, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at Vancouver General Hospital, Dr. Robert Wolber, Regional Discipline Leader, Anatomical Pathology at VCHA and Mr. John Garratt, Technical Specialist Anatomical Pathology at VCHA, the B.C. Immunohistochemistry Testing (IHC) Quality Assurance Program engages every hospital laboratory in the province. Dr. Gilks has been called…
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…
Two hospitals within Vancouver Island Health Authority (VIHA), Royal Jubilee and Victoria General Hospital, are participating in a process called medication reconciliation during the patient admission process. This program has shown dramatic decreases in the occurrence of adverse drug events by reconciling a patient’s home medications upon admission to the hospital for surgery. The program has demonstrated…
Contact: Dr Sanjiv Gandhi, Chief of Pediatric Cardiac Sugery, BC Children’s Hospital, PHSA, sgandhi@cw.bc.ca Description: Under the leadership of Dr. Gandhi, the BC Children’s Hospital Cardiac Surgery department eradicated the waiting list, more than halved the blood donor product exposures and reduced the pediatric intensive care unit stay by more than half for all cardiac surgery patients. Nominated…
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 Pharmacists and Immunization Working Group (PIWG) members are: Fawziah Marra – 2010/11 co-chair (BC Center for Disease Control –…
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. Team: Marianna Leung – Pharmacist Michaela Leicht – Social Worker Julie-Anne Grose – Social Worker Lawrence…
Team: Dan Martinusen – PharmD Monica Beaulieu – MD Marianna Leung – PharmD Peira Callisi – PharmD Lyn Johnson – PharmD Judith Marin – PharmD Clifford Lo – PharmD Ruth Burns Mirek Piaseczny – PhD Philip Lai – Programmer Karen Shalansky – PharmD John Antonsen – MD Mary-Lou Lester – BSc(Pharm) Contact: Dan Martinusen, Clinical Pharmacy Specialist…
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