PHC Med Staff

Promoting meaningful medical staff engagement to make Providence Health Care an organization of clinical, research and teaching excellence to best serve our patients and families and transform health care.

Engagement is…

• A process for making better decisions that incorporate the interests and concerns of affected medical staff while meeting the needs of the organization.
• An opportunity to strengthen relationships, share information, and build mutual understanding and consensus around shared priorities.
  

Why engage? 

Strong engagement among physicians, medical staff, and health organizations supports high quality health care, improving patient outcomes and lowering costs.

At Providence, we are engaging to:

• Unify and build a collective voice and strong community.
• Get to know and connect with our colleagues, and take care of our well-being.
• Have a voice in PHC plans and decisions about our workplace and patient care.

What is Facility Engagement?

Facility Engagement is a BC-wide initiative of the Specialist Services Committee, one of four joint collaborative committees of Doctors of BC and the Government of BC.

As part of the Physician Master Agreement, its goals are to:

• Improve engagement within and amongst  medical staff.
• Improve MSA and health authority engagement.
• Enhance the MSA collective voice in health system planning and decision making.

Each Health Authority across BC including Providence has signed a Memorandum of Understanding and has agreed on key areas for medical staff consultation in Facility Engagement.

Active engagement includes:

• Gathering medical staff input
• More meaningful participation in health authority decision making impacting medical staff workplace and patient care
• Partnership for quality and cost-improvement opportunities

Read about SSC Facility Engagement across BC here.