Fraser Health Regional Resident & Family Advisory Committee

Fraser Health’s Long-term Care (LTC) and Assisted Living (AL) Team is committed to providing comfort, care and connection to all residents and family members who live, or who have a loved one living in a care community. The local care community family councils in Fraser Health offer residents and family members the opportunity to share, listen, learn, support, and generate ideas. Fraser Health’s Regional Resident & Family Advisory Committee raises the voice of the local family councils.

The Regional Resident and Family Partners Advisory Committee is recruiting new members. This committee meets virtually three times a year. It represents a true partnership where a Fraser Health leader and family partners serve as co-chairs.

Examples of discussions at the Regional Resident and Family Partners Advisory Committee include:
• Improvements of quality of life
• Communication of what is going well and what can be improved
• Review experience data
• Improvement projects
• Education

Family Councils give residents and their families the opportunity to:
– Support one another and share experiences
– Look for solutions to common concerns
– Have direct, safe and open discussions and engagement with local leadership and to listen to the leadership responses and reasoning behind decisions that have and are being made
– Generate ideas to improve quality of life and build a sense of community
– Provide a space for further education

Fraser Health’s Long-Term Care and Assisted Living team values the resident and family voice to support improvements in residents’ quality of life. These meetings are one way that the perspective of resident and family partners support the planning, delivery, and evaluation of Fraser Health Long-Term Care and Assisted Living services.

Click here to learn more from the current co-chair: https://www.fraserhealth.ca/news/2022/Nov/resident-and-family-councils-key-players-in-long-term-care-communities

Level of Engagement

This opportunity is at the level of Consult on the IAP2 Spectrum of Public Participation.

Eligibility

• Have access to technology and the internet to participate in the engagement opportunity
• Comfortable using technology to attend online/virtual meetings
• An interest in improving health care services

Patient Partners ARE NOT required to be PVN members to participate in this engagement opportunity.

Health Care Partner Contact Information

Laura Klein
Clinical Practice Consultant, Clinical Quality and Patient Safety | Fraser Health
(604) 613-6598
patient.engagement@fraserhealth.ca