Volunteers help seniors complete day-to-day tasks using local funding within the community.
Helping Hands Program Makes Seniors Lives a Little Easier
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Innovations that involve education-related initiatives for community members, medical students, and/or health care providers
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No Good Food Gone to Waste
Food Banks provided with would-be orchard discards that help those in need.
Locals Look After ‘The Yellow House’ Mental Health Services
Community individuals look after The Yellow House where mental health services are referred from local communities and make good connections with outreach services and the hospital.
Monthly Events on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
Focus on Health initiative spreads to other communities to improve chronic disease management and health promotion.
Shared Youth Mental Health Coordinator from VCH and MCFD
Advocating for youth mental health has resulted in additonal resourses for community members, who now have access to a Youth Mental Health Coordinator.
Local Youth Engagement Strategy is the Start of Something Good
Evolving engagment from community stakeholders continues due to local youth and attendance now includes members of Health Authority.
Midwife-led and Team Based Program Provides Wrap Around Care for Families
Expansive Maternal Child Health Program provides care to mothers and families from…
Local Seniors Activities Provide Options for Healthier Lifestyles
Multiple senior-focused facilities offer activities that increase physical activity and social relations.
Virtual and Interactive COPD Pilot Program
Successful Virtual COPD education pilot occurs monthly in the community of Ashcroft…
#masks4all: Multiple Stakeholders Come Together to Prevent COVID-19 in Community
#masks4all collaboration between local physician, MSA and local non-profit group creates and delivers a mask program for COVID-19 prevention in Rossland.
First Nations Community Uses a Trauma Informed Lens for Mental Health in Youth
Community works together to fill gap in mental health care resources and address youth mental health and suicide through prevention, education and including a trauma informed lens.
Community Care Transit Help Locals Attend Urban Appointments
Community Care Transit allows community members to travel to and return from Vancouver, providing direct and reliable access to care.
Pool of nurses expanded by travelling to community to transport patients via ambulance
If a community is unable to access nursing transport care, a staffing pool has been put into place that will pay to have a nurse sent to the community and then returns home in the ambulance …
Ashcroft Works With BC Transit, Interior Health and Neighbouring Communites to Make Accessable Transport a Reality
Access to specialist and medical appointments made possible through scuccessful, scheduled BC Transit route traveling from Ashcroft and neighbouring rural communities to Kamloops and back.
Micro Units Provide Residents, Locums and Short Term Vacancy Medical Staff a Place to Stay
Changes in development zone areas allow for innovative use of existing properties and micro housing to provide housing options for locums, residents, Registered Nurse coverage and more.
Virtual Palliative Care Rounds Provide Exellent Feedback and Support
By hosting virtual palliative care rounds physicians, Community Paramedics, and the medical treatment team are able to refer clients as needed and discuss patient care in an effective manner.
Physicians Travel to Aging Patients
Connections to community and patients deepened by physician’s dedication to visiting aging patients closer to home.
Local Government Works With Health Authority to Identify Actual Issues- First Step Towards Solutions!
Health Authority helps bring everyone together to identify overlap in work and identify needs with a societal scan.
Local NeuroFit Program Benefits Folks with Neurological Disabilities
Stroke and brain injury clients able to access exceptional care locally, thanks to NeuroFit program.
Unique Patient Discharge Procedure Increases Productivity and Family Satisfaction
Difficult times leads community to create a unique patient discharge procedure, including bringing together families for dischage planning.
Home Away from Home Concept Allows for Safe, Accessible Places for Patients to Stay
Community-driven Home Away from Home offers a place for patients and their families to stay while experiencing medical care, or awaiting transport after discharge. Options range from family units with shared kitchens and room to gather to hostel style.
Maternal Child Health Program a Leading Model for Midwives in BC
Funding Model Used for Maternal Child Health Program Helps Sustainability of Maternity Services in Community
Healthy Relationships Between Physicians, Local Municipality, and Health Authority Result in Support for Community Hospital
Community Lobbying for 24/7 Rape Kit Testing at Local Hospital
8:30 to 4:30, Monday to Friday, is not generally the time when women are sexually assaulted. Community works hard to have 24/7 rape kit testing available at local centres, and completed by nurses.
Stakeholders Band Together to Locally Decide on Funding
Committee of Local Stakeholders, Health Authority, and More Work Together to Address Health Outcomes and Utilize Funding
From Dire Straights to Roaring Success, Urban Centres Look to Rural Community to Improve Patient Attachment Strategies
Asking for Division funding pays off and enables community to recruit and retain rural physicians
City Adopts 10-Year Financial Plan
By going to a 10-year plan, the City maximizes their municipal finance authority and borrowing capacity, which means they are better positioned for matching grants and making things happen.
Volunteer Run Program Grants Seniors Peace of Mind by Providing Transportation to out of Community Medical Appointments
Senior-run program for seniors allows essential travel to and from medical appointments while removing stress from an already stressful situation
Community Paramedic Program a Successful Initiative
Community Paramedics visit patients in their homes, and provide routine serivices, allowing other BC Emergency Health Services team members to be available for ambulance call outs.
Fraser Health subsidizes BC Transit in Hope by $25,000 a year
A BC Transit open forum reveals that the ycommunity needs more transit coverage. The District worked to get the Health Authority to subsidize BC Transit of $25,000/year which helped address multiple health outcomes, such as access to transport for medical appointments.
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