2018 BC Health Care Awards Winners Revealed
VANCOUVER – The winners of the 12th annual BC Health Care Awards were announced today at a gala luncheon in Vancouver. Twelve Golden Apple and six Merit Award winners were honored.
Presented by the Health Employers Association of British Columbia (HEABC), the awards recognize British Columbians who provide exceptional care and support. Awards are given in 11 categories to projects that improve delivery through innovative and collaborative approaches and to people who positively impact and inspire those around them.
“BC’s medical professionals, including support staff, genuinely care about providing quality care to British Columbians,” said Michael McMillan, HEABC President and CEO. “The BCHC Awards are an opportunity to recognize and celebrate the individual and team contributions made by these individuals.”
New This Year: Dianna Mah-Jones Award for Excellence in Person-Centered Care
Named in honor of Dianna Mah-Jones, this award goes to a team or project that uses leading practices to improve patient, resident, or client care by focusing on the needs of the individual rather than the needs of the system or service. . Dianna Mah-Jones, an occupational therapist at GF Strong Rehabilitation Center, tragically died, along with her husband Richard Jones, just three months after being named an HC Provincial Hero at the 2017 awards. Our hope is that this room will help keep her alive his memory and legacy by recognizing others who strive to provide care that respects people’s needs, values, and preferences.
Winners of the Golden Apple 2018
Provincial HC Hero & HC Hero – Provincial Health Services Authority
Glenn Braithwaite – District Supervisor, Emergency Coordinator, BCEHS
Glenn Jay Braithwaite is a Paramedic and District Supervisor with the BC Ambulance Service, recognized for exceptional emergency response and clinical leadership skills. He has received various professional accolades for his heroic actions and his outstanding commitment to patients, colleagues and the community at large.
Provincial Hero HC & HC Hero – Island Health
Dr. Ramm Hering – Senior Physician, Primary Care Substance Use, Island Health
By passionately and effectively advocating for better services for patients dealing with substance use and addiction, Dr. Hering has inspired his colleagues to work together to develop new programs and create an efficient and effective addiction service system. customer focused.
HC Hero – Affiliate
Dr. David Agulnik – Emergency Physician, St. Paul’s Hospital
HC Hero – Fraser’s Health
Mits Miyata – Pharmacy Manager, Lower Mainland Pharmacy Services
HC Hero – Inner Health
Lynda Martyn – Registered Speech-Language Pathologist, Coordinator Kelowna Cleft Lip/Palate Clinic
HC Hero – Northern Health
Debbie Strang – Health Services Administrator, Quesnel
HC Hero – Provincial Health Services Authority
Dr. Faisal Khosa – Associate Professor, Radiology, Vancouver General Hospital
Dianna Mah-Jones Award for Excellence in Person-Centered Care
International Seating Symposium – Sunny Hill Health Center for Children, Provincial Health Services Authority
The International Seating Symposium has created an international forum for the exchange of ideas and a network of consumers, rehabilitation therapists, physicians, designers and manufacturers of positioning and mobility equipment. This has inspired improvements in rehabilitation equipment and technology that have improved mobility, comfort and quality of life for people with disabilities.
Dianna Mah-Jones Award for Excellence in Person-Centered Care
Residential Care for Me: Megamorphosis – Senior Care and Hospice Services, Providence
The goal of Residential Care for Me: Megamorphosis is to shift the culture of residential care from an institutional model of care to a social one, and to improve the quality of life for residents by quickly testing and implementing changes that focus on emotional connections, allow residents direct each other and create the feeling of home.
top innovation
SNIFF: C. Difficile Canine Scent Detection Program – Vancouver Coastal Health
An innovative and dedicated team of individuals and a growing list of pups known as the C. Difficile Scent Detection Program is pioneering a cost-effective method of improving and enhancing C. Difficile surveillance and improving control and prevention practices. infections.
Health innovation in the workplace
VGH Emergency Department Healthy Workplace Initiative – Vancouver Coastal Health
Vancouver General Hospital’s emergency department formed a multidisciplinary team with the goal of working together to improve health and safety in the workplace, leading to an improved work climate where staff report feeling engaged and more capable of provide the kind of quality care that emergency patients deserve.
collaborative solutions
Improving Indigenous Cancer Travel: A Roadmap – BC Aboriginal Friendship Center Association, BC Cancer (Provincial Health Services Authority), First Nations Health Authority, BC Métis Nation
The Aboriginal Cancer Strategy is a collaborative strategy that will improve Aboriginal cancer outcomes by addressing all steps of the cancer journey, from prevention and treatment to survivorship and end-of-life care.
The winners of this year’s Awards of Merit are:
Dianna Mah-Jones Award for Excellence in Person-Centered Care
• Review of resources and needs – Nanaimo Regional General Hospital, Island Health
top innovation
• Symphony QuickCall – Workforce Management Solutions, Provincial Health Services Authority
• Fall Prevention: A Volunteer-Based Fall Prevention Strategy in Residential Care – Holy Family Hospital Residential Care, Providence
Health innovation in the workplace
• Reducing workplace injuries through leading practices – Menno Place
collaborative solutions
• Regional Strategy to Reduce Ambulance Response Times – BC Emergency Health Services, Provincial Health Services Authority, Fraser Health
• Vancouver Shared Care Team – Doctors of BC, Providence, Vancouver Coastal Health
Since the awards were launched in 2007, more than 200 Golden Apples and Merit Awards have been awarded to healthcare employees who are improving BC’s healthcare system and patient care.
the 2018 BCHC Awards They are generously supported by Great-West Life, the Healthcare Benefit Trust and the Pacific Blue Cross.
Visit BCHealthCareAwards.ca for more information on the 2018 award winners.
The Health Employers Association of British Columbia (HEABC) is the accredited bargaining agent for the majority of publicly funded healthcare employers in the province, representing denominational, owner and affiliated healthcare employers, as well as the six health authorities of the province. HEABC coordinates the labor relations interests of 250 publicly funded healthcare employers and negotiates five major provincial agreements covering more than 120,000 unionized employees.
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