VANCOUVER – Recipients of the twelfth yearly BC Health Care Awards were reported today at a celebration lunch get-together in Vancouver. Twelve Gold Apple and six Award of Merit beneficiaries were regarded.
Introduced by the Health Employers Association of British Columbia (HEABC), the honors perceive British Columbians who are giving remarkable consideration and backing. Grants are given in 11 classifications to projects further developing conveyance through creative and cooperative methodologies and to individuals having a constructive outcome and motivating everyone around them.
“BC’s clinical experts – including support staff – really care about conveying quality consideration to British Columbians,” said Michael McMillan, HEABC’s President and CEO. “The BCHC Awards are a chance to perceive and commend the individual and group commitments made by these people.”
New this year – Dianna Mah-Jones Award of Excellence in Person-Centered Care
Named to pay tribute to Dianna Mah-Jones, this honor is for a group or venture that utilizes driving practices to further develop care for patients, occupants or customers by zeroing in on the necessities of the individual rather than the requirements of the framework or administration. Dianna Mah-Jones, a word related specialist at GF Strong Rehabilitation Center, was lamentably killed, alongside her significant other Richard Jones, only three months subsequent to being named Provincial HC Hero at the 2017 honors. Our expectation is that this ward will assist with keeping her memory and inheritance alive by remembering other people who endeavor to convey care that is deferential of the necessities, qualities and inclinations of people.
2018 Gold Apple victors
Commonplace HC Hero and HC Hero – Provincial Health Services Authority
Glenn Braithwaite – District Supervisor, Emergency Coordinator, BCEHS
Glenn Jay Braithwaite is a Paramedic and District Supervisor at BC Ambulance Service, perceived for giving outstanding crisis reaction and to his clinical authority capacities. He’s gotten a few expert honors for his brave activities, and his exceptional obligation to patients, partners and the more extensive local area.
Common HC Hero and HC Hero – Island Health
Dr. Ramm Hering – Physician Lead, Primary Care Substance Use, Island Health
By energetically and successfully pushing for further developed administrations for patients managing substance use and habit, Dr. Hering has roused his associates to cooperate to foster new projects and make a proficient, customer focused arrangement of fixation administrations.
HC Hero – Affiliate
Dr. David Agulnik-Emergency Physician, St. Paul’s Hospital
HC Hero – Fraser Health
Mits Miyata – Pharmacy Manager, Lower Mainland Pharmacy Services
HC Hero – Interior 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 of Excellence in Person-Centered Care
Global Seating Symposium – Sunny Hill Health Center for Children, Provincial Health Services Authority
The International Seating Symposium has made a global discussion that encourages a trade of thoughts and an organization of customers, recovery specialists, doctors, planners, and producers of situating and versatility gear. This has motivated upgrades in restoration hardware and innovation that have further developed portability, solace and personal satisfaction for individuals with handicaps.
Dianna Mah-Jones Award of Excellence in Person-Centered Care
Private Care for Me: Megamorphosis – Seniors Care and Palliative Services, Providence
The objective of Residential Care for Me: Megamorphosis is to change the private consideration culture from an institutional to a social model of care, and work on personal satisfaction for inhabitants by quickly testing and executing changes that emphasis on passionate associations, permit occupants to coordinate every second, and make the sensation of home.
Top Innovation
SNIFF: C. Difficile Canine Scent Detection Program – Vancouver Coastal Health
A creative and devoted group of individuals and a developing program of puppies known as the C. Difficile Scent Detection Program is spearheading a savvy strategy to improve and upgrade C. Difficile observation and further develop contamination control and counteraction rehearses.
Working environment Health Innovation
VGH Emergency Department Healthy Workplace Initiative – Vancouver Coastal Health
Vancouver General Hospital’s crisis office framed a multi-disciplinary group determined to cooperate to further develop work environment wellbeing and security, prompting a further developed working environment where staff report feeling drew in and better ready to give the sort of value care that crisis patients merit.
Cooperative Solutions
Working on Indigenous Cancer Journeys: A Road Map – BC Association of Aboriginal Friendship Centers, BC Cancer (Provincial Health Services Authority), First Nations Health Authority, Métis Nation BC
The Indigenous Cancer Strategy is a cooperative system that will further develop native malignant growth results by tending to all means of the disease venture, from avoidance and therapy, through to survivorship and end-of-life care.
