When patient safety reaches the tipping point: One hospital’s solution to treatment delays
When the new Abbotsford Regional Hospital & Cancer Centre (ARHCC) opened its doors to the Fraser Valley community in late 2008, the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) experienced an increase in the volume of severely sick patients with complex health issues. As the new...
Praising the talents of our esteemed BC PSLS Coordinators!
There's something special happening across BC Health Authorities and that's the voices of BC PSLS Coordinators who tirelessly advocate for patient safety every day! In fact, without them, our connection to healthcare providers across the province would be much more...
Goodbye, black holes! Hello, bubbles! Part 2: Getting pushy with publications
By Guest Blogger: Darren Frizzell In follow-up to Part 1, which described how Bubble Charts help to identify potential black holes in a review process, here in Part 2 I’ll talk about our BC PSLS Analytics tools and how they can be used to retrieve meaningful data for...
Focus on Patient Care Quality
High quality patient care is central to sustaining a safe and reliable healthcare system. With this in mind, the Patient Care Quality Review Board introduced legislation in 2008, requiring all six BC Health Authorities to establish a Patient Care Quality Office...
Medical imaging safety – implementing a standardized approach across Island Health
In healthcare, medical imaging (MI) is the production of high-resolution images of the human body, and often involves expertise from a variety of medical professionals such as Radiologists, Technologists, Sonographers, Clerical, or Medical Physicists. Medical images...
Celebrating our patient safety stars!
Spreading the patient safety message among healthcare staff is no small task. Not to mention, influencing those staff to be enthusiastic about using an online safety event management tool in addition to an already busy day caring for patients. But, that’s exactly...