PARTNERING TO CREATE A CULTURE OF CARE
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​Informing and Influencing Complex Healthcare Systems
through Patient-Oriented Research, Person-Centered Care and
Trauma & Resiliency Informed Practice

 We know our communities of care are being effected by a rapid and changing environment.  We understand that developing a culture of care is a high leverage point for communities and commodities in order to attract, retain and grow as well as address the transitional needs. ​
Webinars, Presentations, Articles, Research Projects and Publications:

  • Beyond the Binary: Taking a patient-oriented and trauma-informed approach to building partnerships and dialogue to incorporate gender equity into women's health research.  Partnership with Women's Health Research BC, funded by Michael Smith Health Research BC C2 grant.
 

Latest:

Patient Safety: Cultural Safety and Anti-Indigenous Racism : First Nations, Inuit and Métis people and communities continue to face racism in healthcare. What actions can we take to create culturally safe and equitable care?

Panelists
Reagan Bartel, Director of Health for the Otipemisiwak Métis Government within Alberta Mme.
Bobbi Paul-Alook, Secretary of Health and Seniors for the Otipemisiwak Métis Government within Alberta
Alika Lafontaine, MD, FRCPC; Immediate past-President, Canadian Medical Association; Anesthesiologist, Alberta Health Services; Associate Clinical Professor, University of Alberta
​Lynn Kilabuk, former President of Larga Baffin
The HQ Podcast (HealthCare Can): Tune in as we explore what it is to be a patient partner, the enablers and barriers of becoming a patient partner, and examine the transformative effects of patient-oriented research on clinical care. This is a conversation you won’t want to miss!
Trauma and Resiliency Informed Practice in Action (Health Excellence Canada): This webinar features a practice change story of how the Fraser Health Authority developed and implemented Trauma and Resiliency Informed approaches (TRIP program) at the individual, team, organizational and systems levels

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Current Research Projects:

  • ​PEP (Patient Experience Prototype) Collecting and Using Patient Experience Data in Practice - A comprehensive, systematic, and sustainable approach to integrating patient and caregiver voices into how we reform, design and deliver care. A collaboration of a Pan-national research team with Dr Kerry Kuluski

  • Preferred Components for Co-design in Research (PRECISE) guideline - improve the consistency, transparency, and quality of reporting on studies that use co-design to develop complex health interventions. A pan-national research team with Dr. Sarah Munce

  • Beyond Binary in BC: taking patient-oriented and trauma-informed approach to building partnerships and dialogue to incorporate gender equity into women’s health research. Submitted a successful grant application receiving a C2 grant from MSFHR in partnership with Women’s’ Health Research Institute (WHRI)

  • Intersection of Trauma and Grief – Trauma & Resiliency Informed Care Practices to Support Caregivers of Children with Severe Illness. First recipient of a publicly initiated research project through SPOR Evidence Alliance in partnership with Sick Kids Toronto, Canuck Place Children’s Hospice

  • Towards a Learning Health System to support an Integrated Youth Services Network in Canada - to implement a sustainable integrated youth services Learning Health System framework to support the uptake of standards to improve youth and provider experiences in receiving/delivering care, population health, equity, and health care expenditures