Quality Improvement at PHC – Annual Showcase

Celebrating Quality Improvement at Providence

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What patient care innovations have PHC teams been working on? See the featured projects here!

Thank you to all presenters and poster representatives from the 2024 CQI Showcase, for contributing to Providence Health Care’s commitment to provide exceptional, high quality, and safe care to the patients and families we serve - while achieving outcomes that matter most to our patients. 

Project List: 2024 PHC CQI Showcase

  • Optimizing Value-Based Outcome Measurement in Chronic Inflammatory Neuropathy Through Quality Improvement and Rapid PDSA Cycles
  • Quantifying the opportunity cost of neurology IVIG appointments in St Paul’s Hospital’s Medical Short Stay Unit
  • Secure Patient Texting Streamlines Medication Counselling at The St. Paul’s Ambulatory Pharmacy
  • Revising the PHC Health History Questionnaire (PHHQ)
  • Improving access and flow to Holy Family Hospital Rehabilitation – Thwarting myths and accelerating efficiency
  • Lupus Anticoagulant (LA) Assay Quality Improvement Project
  • RACE – Rapid Access to Consultative Expertise
  • Evaluating Hospital at Home Pharmacy Services in the Immediate Post-Implementation Period
  • Value-Based Health Care (Carpal Tunnel Syndrome project)
  • A Delirium reduction strategy for the Surgical High Acuity Unit (sHAU): A quality improvement project
  • Food as Medicine for Healing: Balancing Patient Eating Habits with Planetary Health
  • St Paul’s Emergency Department Low Risk Pulmonary Embolism Pathway
  • Neurology mobile point-of-care workstation at St. Paul’s Hospital – Neurology on Wheels (NOW)
  • Off-label use of dalbavancin to improve treatment outcomes and reduce healthcare costs: a single-center quality improvement initiative
  • The St. Paul’s Hospital Advanced Endoscopic Resection Center (SPARC)
  • Near-Patient Crossmatch Collection in Community
  • Glove Smart
  • ED-Medicine Handover Project
  • People’s Choice Award: Reduction of staff musculoskeletal injuries in the Post Anesthetic Care Unit at SPH
  • Physiotherapy following breast cancer surgery at PHC
  • NEWS project at MSJ

CQI 2024 PROJECT BOOKLET (ALL)

CONGRATS! PEOPLE'S CHOICE AWARD RECIPIENTS
Reduction of staff musculoskeletal injuries in the Post Anesthetic Care Unit at SPH - submitted by Christine Roy and the St. Paul's Hospital Surgical Program team

2024 EVENT PHOTO GALLERY

This annual Showcase event is hosted by the Exceptional Quality, Safety, Value (EQSV) Pillar, one of four working committees that the Physicians and Surgeons Society (PASS) and PHC that is facilitating strong medical staff representation, collaboration, and two-way communication between physicians and our health authority leadership.  PACs are tasked with activating and advancing PHC’s strategic priorities.

 


2023 CQI Showcase

 

Project List: 2023 PHC CQI Showcase

  • Development of a patient and clinician co-led education program to promote living well with an ICD: Insights from a quality improvement project
  • Improving access to diabetes care: evaluation of new clinic model to maximize the competencies of Certified Diabetes Educators (IMPACT-DC)
  • Patient-Reported Outcomes, Burdens, and Experiences (PROBEsurvey in patients with severe Hemophilia A without inhibitors following Emicizumab initiation
  • Audience Choice Award: PAtient-guided Complication Tracking System (PACTS): Building Alliances with Patients for the Continued Improvement of Post-Procedural Outcomes
  • The Independence Model (TIM)
  • Pregnancy Outcomes in Sickle Cell Patients in BC
  • RACE – Rapid Access to Consultative Expertise
  • Strengthening primary care providers’ access to tools and resources for supporting long COVID patients in BC
  • Quality and Partnerships Forward – A Value-Based Health Care Initiative that prioritizes patients and embraces partnership to transform care
  • St Paul’s Hospital Anticoagulation Stewardship Program
  • NICU Dyad Care at St Paul’s Hospital
  • Evaluation of the Live Donation Patient & Family Group
  • Delivering value for patients with shoulder pain
  • Implementing Outcome Measures: From Research to Operations in the St. Paul’s Immunotherapy in Neurology Clinic
  • Supporting patients with Tertiary Hyperparathyroidism after kidney transplant
  • NLED-AF: Assessing the Feasibility of Nurse-Led Post Ablation Education Following Same-day Discharge after Atrial Fibrillation Ablation
  • Free Period Products
  • Physiotherapy Student Led Clinic in the Older Adult Clinic at SPH
  • Goals of Care Conversations at the MSJ Family Practice Teaching Service
  • Using QI methodologies to improve engagement in care in a DTES Vancouver Primary Care Clinic
  • KardiaMobile 6L Monitoring in Pregnant Patients with LQTS: A Pilot Project & Collaborative Effort to Improve Patient Care
  • Acquired Hemophilia A. A 5 Year Single Centre Experience of Laboratory Testing. Saint Paul’s Hospital. Providence Health Care. BC Canada
  • Imprecision of the neutrophil band cell count
  • eCASE (electronic Consultative Access to Specialist Expertise)

PROJECT POSTER BOOKLET (ALL)

CONGRATS! AUDIENCE CHOICE AWARD RECIPIENTS
Patient-guided Complication Tracking System (PACTS): Building Alliances with Patients for the Continued Improvement of Post-Procedural Outcomes - presented by Leah T’ien, Gastroenterology (Booklet, page 10)

EVENT PHOTO GALLERY

 

This annual Showcase event is hosted by the Exceptional Quality, Safety, Value (EQSV) Pillar, one of four working committees that the Physicians and Surgeons Society (PASS) and PHC that is facilitating strong medical staff representation, collaboration, and two-way communication between physicians and our health authority leadership.  PACs are tasked with activating and advancing PHC’s strategic priorities