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Patient Partner, New St. Paul’s Hospital Rehabilitation Center Working Group, Providence Health Care

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Commitment: Long-term

Connection method: Virtual

Open to Fraser Valley & Lower Mainland

Posted

  • To provide consult and insight into planning for the New St. Paul’s Rehabilitation Center
  • Patient partners will provide feedback that will support leadership to make decisions around how care will be delivered in the new Center
    • Services provided in the Rehabilitation Center include those performed by Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists, Registered Dietitians, Speech Language Pathologists and Clinical Exercise Physiologists
    • Examples of services provided could be hand therapy, physiotherapy, nutrition counselling, and swallowing disorder assessment and treatment

Meetings will be held virtually on Microsoft Teams. Would be monthly or bi-monthly on Tuesday afternoons for 1 hour. Additional meetings outside this working group might be needed to set context and information of work done so far.

Level of Engagement

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

Eligibility

  • Willing & comfortable to share health care experiences in a group setting
  • Specific health care experiences [details below]
  • 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
  • The time to participate in the engagement opportunity
  • Experience receiving outpatient services as described above (i.e. hand therapy, cardiac rehabilitation, nutrition counselling, and swallowing disorder assessment and treatment) would be an asset.
Patient Partners ARE required to be PVN members to participate in this engagement opportunity.

Health Care Partner Contact Information

Paige Courtice Manager, Allied Health Initiatives, Professional Practice Office | Providence Health Care (604) 841-9504 pcourtice@providencehealth.bc.ca

From Our Community

Agnes Black

Director, Health Services & Clinical Research and Knowledge Translation – Providence Health Care

Agnes Black

It’s really hard to make changes in health care. When a PVN patient partner says, ‘This is important to us’ it keeps us grounded on why a change is needed and keeps us motivated to keep going on projects.