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Ridge Meadows PTSD Patient Voice Working Group

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Commitment: One-time

Connection method: Hybrid

Open to Fraser – Vancouver Coastal

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For patients who are diagnosed with PTSD, to share their lived experience in regard to accessing care. For example: what was helpful, not helpful, what type of care do they wish they had, what do primary care and acute care providers need to be thinking about when providing care, etc.)

This information will be shared with the project leadership team to help inform project strategies and intended outcomes.

Meeting frequency TBD. We are currently in our initial EOI phase to understand gaps in PTSD care and potential solutions. The current commitment is a single meeting prior to October 8, 2025. If we receive full project funding (we will know by the end of November 2025), meetings will likely take place once per quarter, approximately 1 hour. All meetings will be offered in a hybrid format (virtual or at the Division office in Maple Ridge, BC).

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]
  • An interest in improving health care services
  • The time to participate in the engagement opportunity

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

Health Care Partner Contact Information

Julie Webb
Project Manager, Patient Care Improvement | Ridge Meadows Division of Family Practice
(604) 561-0001
jwebb@rmdivision.ca

From Our Community

Karla Warkotsch

Patient Experience Consultant – Interior Health

Karla Warkotsch

The question I like to ask health care employees is ‘Who is this for?’ and ‘Do we have the right people at the table?’ As a health care employee, I see how easy it is to fall into doing for, rather than doing with patients. The voices of the patient, family and caregiver are essential to ensure the patient is central to the direction and focus of the work being done.