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The Small Steps, Big Idea initiative provides funding for VPSA members to develop concepts that engage physicians and their colleagues, improve patient care, develop better communication, and/or build relationships across specialties, departments, health authority leadership, and community members. Funding can be used for sessional payments, meals, venue costs, and/or speaker or consultant fees. Three projects conducted over the 2022/23 fiscal year serve as inspirational examples. Anesthesiologist Dr. Himat Vaghadia led … Read More

When VGH Experience in Care Leader Kimi Manhas worked as an RN, she looked after a patient who was not taking his medications because he could not afford them. That did not sit well with Ms. Manhas and she set out to make a difference. She collaborated with Drs. Ken Gin and Lynn Straatman on a VPSA-funded project addressing cost-related nonadherence (CRNA) to prescription medications. The project focused on Fair … Read More

VPSA/VMDAS board and staff meet monthly with VCH senior leaders to develop a collaborative relationship between medical staff and the health authority. Those attending the April meeting heard updates on the work of the VCH Medical Staff Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Committee as well as the Engaging Physicians in Indigenous Cultural (EPIC) Safety Task Group. The group also continued its discussions on ways to make the meetings more meaningful. EDI … Read More

The important work being done by members of the Vancouver Acute/Vancouver Community Medical Staff Planetary Health Committee was highlighted at a recent Doctors of BC Facility Engagement Initiative peer-to-peer knowledge sharing roundtable. Physicians from across the province gathered virtually to hear about the committee’s work as well as from other medical professionals working to reduce the environmental impacts of health care. Committee co-chair Dr. Rashmi Chadha gave an impassioned presentation … Read More