Interior Health Quality Board Speaker

Here is a chance to share your health experience with the Interior Health Quality Board!

Open to: Volunteers in the Interior Health region

Lead Organization or Department

Interior Health, Quality Risk and Accreditation

Aim

• The purpose of the presentation is to have patients and their families tell the board about their health care experience and ideas
• The goal is have the board members listen, reflect and act upon the experiences they hear
• Your story can be of a positive or negative experience, it is hoped that the volunteers will share their honest and open experiences.

Level of Engagement

This opportunity is at the level of consult on the spectrum of engagement (iap2.org). The promise to you is that the health care partner will listen to and acknowledge your ideas and concerns, and provide feedback on how your input affected the decision.

Eligibility

• Open to volunteers living in the Interior Health region.
• Comfortable sharing your story/experience in a group setting.
• Patients should have previously attended a PVN orientation session. If you have not attended an orientation but are interested please contact the engagement leader directly.

Logistics

• Date of the presentation -June 5 or 6
• 1 volunteer
• Location: Kelowna
• The presentation can occur either in-person for those living within reasonable travel distance to Kelowna, or by video or teleconference
• This is a one-time event

Reimbursement

Mileage and meals will be covered but pre-approval is required.

Background

The Quality committee assists the Board in fulfilling its responsibility to ensure excellent quality of patient, client, and resident care throughout the health authority by:

• ensuring that the Interior Health Authority’s Leadership Team establishes an appropriate patient, client, resident-centred, and performance-based quality culture;
• providing support, input, and governance as the Interior Health Authority’s Leadership Team establishes and monitors performance targets, standards of care and service, guidelines and policies for patients, clients, and residents, while reducing associated risks; and
• advising the Board on the Health Authority’s progress and population health performance.

Health Care Partner Contact Information

Carol Stathers
Engagement Leader, Patient and Public Engagement | Okanagan, Interior Region
778.516.3308
cstathers@bcpsqc.ca