Year after year, all of us in health care strive for more. We want to be better, to make a difference. It's been called “the relentless pursuit of quality" by the BC Patient Safety and Quality Council.
This never-ending pursuit means that people are constantly coming up with new ways to improve the quality of health care. In B.C., many of these people and projects are captured as part of the BC Patient Safety and Quality Council Awards. The 2021 BC Quality Awards included 17 winners and runners-up, and we are extremely proud to share that eight of them are from PHSA.
Please join us in congratulating the eight PHSA people and projects below:
Child Health BC
BC Emergency Health Services and Trauma Services BC
Population Health Promotion team, BC Women’s Hospital + Health Centre
Michelle Peltier, BC Women's Hospital + Health Centre’s Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
Michelle Peltier, patient and family engagement advisor, was named the winner of the
Leadership in Advancing the Patient Voice award.
Provincial Perinatal Substance Use Project, BC Women's Hospital + Health Centre
Dr. Stephanie Rhone, BC Women's Hospital + Health Centre
Dr. Stephanie Rhone, senior medical director, Gyne & Sexual Health, Specialized Programs, Medical Genetics, was named the runner-up of The
Doug Cochrane Leadership in Quality Award.
Tiffany Wong, BC Children’s Hospital
Tiffany Wong, pediatric allergist, was named the runner-up of the
Everyday Champion award.
Winners are awarded a $2,500 sponsorship to help support and disseminate learning from their projects or to support ongoing learning and development. The Appetite to Play, Getting to the Right Place and Improving Support for Families Experiencing Perinatal Loss teams have also been invited to present their work at Quality Forum 2022.
We offer our sincere congratulations to the honourees above, and thank you to all who strive to improve the quality of patient and client care every day at PHSA.
