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Fraser Health is committed to ensuring that patients have a thorough understanding of their medications leaving the hospital and appropriate information is shared to community health care partners (i.e. family doctors, community pharmacists, etc.). They are developing a discharge process to improve this communication between the hospital and community.
Since 2007, Fraser Health has enacted a Smoke-Free Policy on all owned and operated facilities including hospitals and community programs. The policy was expanded in 2014 to prohibit the use of e-cigarettes and other smoke and vapour products, and its goal is to provide a safe environment to all who…
Did you know that 45% of hospitalized patients are at risk for malnutrition? Help implement an approach to nutrition care that meets patients’ needs! Open to: Patient partners from the Lower Mainland and Fraser Valley…
Have you or a loved one received care for diabetes? You can bring the patient/family member perspective to a planning meeting on February 6! Open to: Volunteers from the Lower Mainland…
Worldwide, pain is often untreated and is the most common illness that people take to emergency departments to provide relief. The Fraser Health Emergency Network has chosen acute pain management as one of its priorities with the hopes of providing a better patient experience. The network seeks patient input into…
Can you help us create patient and family information tools (handbook & website) that are truly helpful for families when their loved one is unexpectedly admitted to the intensive care unit? Open to: Volunteers near St. Paul’s Hospital…
Would you be able to draw on your personal experience as a patient or family member to help nurses practice clinical assessment, communication and patient and family-centered care? If so, consider participating in two-three meetings which will inform the creation of a learning scenario for nurses at Providence Health!…
Have you ever needed to obtain a wheelchair for yourself or a family member in residential care? Do you want to join this working group for up to three months to help develop communication tools to assist other residents and families in the process? Open to: Volunteers in the Lower…
Use your personal experience with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) as a member of a University of British Columbia research team working to understand how home health monitoring can be effectively used to improve care for people with COPD. Open to: Patient partners in Vancouver and Richmond…
Be a part of developing community health services to keep seniors healthy and well at home. Fraser Health is looking for an energetic, community-minded senior who can contribute their voice to the development of the CARES program for preventing frailty. This innovative program puts together the best minds in seniors’ health…
Health Quality BC administers the Patient Voices Network. Using evidence-informed strategies, the Council shifts culture, improves clinical practice and advances person- and family-centred care to support high-quality care for every person in our province.
