Patients Who Had Needed “Optimizations” Before Surgery

Aim
The Providence Health Care and Vancouver Coastal Health Physician Quality Improvement Program aims to enhance Quality Improvement (QI) capacity, build connections, and create a continuous improvement culture to transform our local health system.

Patient partners will share their lived or living experience through:
Partnering with physicians who are going through the PQI 8-month cohort training. Each physician has their own unique project (listed below). Patient partners are encouraged to indicate any of the projects that they have an interest in, or have lived/living experience with as a patient or family member.

Depending on the project, the physician leading the project will lead a:
• One-to-one interview, or
• Several project meetings, or
• A single focus group.

Level of Engagement

This opportunity is at the level of Involve 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]
• Previous committee/working group experience
• 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
• Patients who needed "optimization" before surgery. For example: • Smoking cessation • BMI: can lead to recurrence. Referral to weight management clinic • Diabetes management. Refer to endocrinology.

Patient Partners ARE required to be PVN members to participate in this engagement opportunity.

Health Care Partner Contact Information

Hing Yi Wong Quality Improvement Leader, Physician Quality Improvement | VCH (778) 871-6651 hing.wong@vch.ca