Welcome to Facility Engagement
It brought a ton of value to the project to have physician voices combined into the data analysis and to hear about the local context. — Jess Place, Northern Health FE Sponsor, Hospital Overcapacity Project
Facility Engagement is a BC-wide initiative that fosters meaningful consultation and collaboration among facility-based medical staff associations, their members, and health authorities on shared priorities that improve patient care and the work environment. — An initiative of the Specialist Services Committee
It was really about delivering the best care while taking into account the needs of patients, physicians, managers and staff. It was about building communication pathways and creating a shared culture of ‘we are in this together.’ — Dr Charlene Lui, Burnaby Hospital Maternity Clinic
Across BC: Stories
 | ProvincialSupporting physician health & wellness through engagement and collaboration |
 | Fraser HealthMaternity service wait-times drop from 3 months to 3 days |
 | Interior HealthPromoting Gender Equity in Medicine and Leadership |
 | Island HealthPreventing preterm births: physician-led initiative expands, save lives |
 | Northern HealthWorking toward Cultural Safety and Cultural Humility in the ED |
 | Providence Health CareTaking engagement and leadership to the next level |
 | Provincial Health Services AuthorityBuilding a Sustainable QI Network at BC Children’s Hospital |
 | Vancouver Coastal HealthWorking to advance Indigenous cultural safety at Vancouver Acute and Community sites |
News and Updates
Monday, September 30 marks the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, which honours survivors of residential schools, the children who never returned home, and their families and communities. It is also a day to reflect on and support the commitment to Truth and Reconciliation. Doctors of BC and the Joint Collaborative Committees (JCCs) are committed to advancing Indigenous-specific anti racism (ISAR) and cultural safety (CS) in partnership with First Nations, Inuit, and Métis peoples, and to ensuring that Indigenous patients have access to a culturally safe health care system. We encourage physicians to use this opportunity to read the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada: Calls to Action on health (18-24), reflect on how to integrate cultural safety and humility into their practices, and access JCC resources, webinars, and community-based experiential learning sessions to gain skills that promote addressing and eliminating racism in health care.
A knowledge sharing website that brings together engagement experiences from across BC. Search for strategies and ideas to adapt and support your engagement work. Contribute your good work to the knowledge collection! Go to Facility Engagement Knowledge Sharing>