PQI Community Updates & Opportunities

June 21, 2024

Hello Everyone,

Happy Summer Solstice! Hope you are all enjoying the longest day of the year ☀️.

We are excited to introduce you to two new PQI team members - Andrea John and Angelica Miller!!! Andrea is our new PQI-SQI-Alums Program Assistant and Angelica is a Consultant supporting the Alums. Stay tuned for a virtual Meet & Greet with Angelica coming soon! Feel free to reach out to her by email, she is looking forward to meeting everyone and would love to connect.

Are you interested in joining the PQI team? We are adding another Physician Faculty member to start in September, check out the details here. Please connect with us if you have any questions or would like more information, the deadline to express interest is July 19^that 9:00am.

We'd also like to welcome to our PQI Community the Medical Staff in Cohort 9! Let us know if you are interested in connecting with any of them as an Alum Consult.

Check out the other upcoming opportunities for Alums and current Cohort members below! Please reach out anytime if you have questions or need support.

Julia

Click here or on the image below for Alex's latest fun music video

Alum Shout Outs

Congratulations to Ava Butler (Cohort 7) for receiving the 2024 Dr. Paul Hannam Memorial Award for Emerging Leadership in Emergency Medicine by the Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians (CAEP)! This award is given to the candidate who best demonstrates the following qualities: Demonstrated leadership skills; Supports colleagues as an educator and mentor; Dedicated to EDI values especially marginalized patients of the ED; Skilled and dedicated educator; Quiet, humble individual who leads by example.

Shout out to four new Alum Medical Leaders: Laura MacKinnon (Cohort 5) has taken on the Part-time Addiction Medicine Medical Lead role for Cowichan Valley and Kelly Cox (Cohort 7) is now the Site Medical Director for NRGH. Harold Hunt (Cohort 6) is the new Medical Director for Quality, Clinical Governance and Accreditation
and Ali Yakhshi Tafti (Cohort 6) has taken on the Medical Director for Patient Safety, Patient Care Quality Office and Risk role. Congratulations, you will all be fantastic in those roles!

Jennifer Oates Memorial Award

Many of you had an opportunity to work with our former PQI Faculty member and Physician Lead for Patient Engagement, Dr. Jennifer Oates. We lost her in the summer of 2023 and want to find a way to celebrate her legacy as a PQI program. Kamla and Jennie recently met with her family to explore setting up an annual memorial award in her name. If you would like to share your story of how Dr. Oates influenced your QI work, or how you engage with patients, we would love to hear from you at PQI@islandhealth.ca.

Upcoming Opportunities

The Call for Quality Forum Abstracts for 2025 is now open! Abstracts can be submitted under two categories, Ideas and Outcomes. Share your work as a Storyboard poster or Rapid Fire presentation.
Check out the Abstracts Submission Checklist for more details. If you need help, email Julia for support. The deadline to submit is September 6

Posters for the Choosing Wisely Patient-Centred Public Awareness Campaign are now available to display at your site. If you are interested in displaying one, email MedStaffQI@islandhealth.ca

Join your fellow Alum in a leadership role as the new Medical Director for Post Graduate Medical Education. Contact Med Staff Recruitment for information on how to apply

Well-Planned Summit

June 26 2:00-5:00pm

3-hour virtual event engaging physicians, multidisciplinary staff, and patient partners on a system-level topic:

When establishing medical goals for discharge, what are the factors that influence the ability of all team members (including patient/family) to be aware of the medical goals for discharge?

Summit Context & Agenda

Honorariums will be provided for physicians

Action Series

Following the success of the Good Call Action Series, PQI Alums and the Patient Access and Flow team are developing a new grassroots intervention Action Series to improve communication among participating teams around medical goals for discharge, called “Well-Planned”.

Ways to get Involved

Planning Team: up to
8 hrs (July-August)
Summit Event: 3hrs
Promo/Recruitment:
1-3hrs
Action Series participant: 6 hrs (October-March)

Ways to Get Involved

Tool of the Month

The British Columbia Cultural Safety and Humility Standard helps leaders identify, measure, and achieve culturally safe systems and services that better respond to the health and wellness priorities of First Nations, Métis, and Inuit peoples and communities.

Client and Family Information Sheet

As our community continues to grow, we'd love to get your input on what is working well, where there are gaps and opportunities, and any general feedback/ideas for improvement. As always, you can reach out to Alex, Alicia, Albert or Julia directly anytime, or bookmark/use this link as another way to share your thoughts:

surveys.islandhealth.ca/surveys/PQI-Alums-General-Feedback

Interested in connecting more often with fellow PQI Alums? South Island Alum Champion, Alicia Power has created a WhatsApp group "QuPID"!

Click here to join the Alum group

Have a delightful day!

If you have any questions, comments, or ideas for improvement, please email PQI@IslandHealth.ca or Julia.Porter@IslandHealth.ca

Visit the PQI page on the Medical Staff website