The PHC-PASS Medical Staff Strategic Pillars represent medical staff in Providence Health Care's Strategic Plan. Physician leaders and medical staff advisors are paired with senior organizational leaders in Pillar Advisory Committees (PACs) and collaborate on activities that support our medical staff community and workplace.
Pillar activities are funded through the PHC Physicians and Surgeons Society Facility Engagement funding.
Join our teams!
New opportunities for Strategic Pillar Medical Staff Advisors:
Exceptional Quality, Safety & Value
Quality Pillar Advisory Committee: Dr. Trina Montemurro (Consultant Lead), Dr. Janet Kow (PHC VP Sponsor) and Medical Staff Advisors Dr. Haley Merkeley, Dr. Shanta Chakrabarti, Dr. Keeva Lupton
QUALITY PILLAR ACTIVITIES
Celebrating and sharing opportunities and learning for patient quality and safety.
- Sourcing Quality Improvement resources: Exploration, clarification and sharing of resources, funding opportunities and access to data available to medical staff.
- Showcasing Quality Improvement: Co-sponsor of the annual Celebrating Quality Improvement showcase of projects.
- Schwartz Rounds: Successful advocacy for introducing Schwartz Rounds to PHC to support provider wellness and compassionate care. Watch for rounds all year round!
- Value-based Health Care: Continued awareness and education for medical staff.
QUALITY PILLAR-FUNDED MEDICAL STAFF PROJECTS 2024/25
- PAVE: Personalized Approach to Vaso-Occlusive Crisis Experience
- On the Mend: Health Care Wrongs and Patient Rights
Discover, Learn & Innovate for Impact
Learning Pillar Advisory Committee: Dr. Jesse Grenier (Consultant Lead), Dr. Darryl Knight (PHC VP Sponsor), Brian Simmers (PHC VP Health Informatics; President, PHC Ventures) and Medical Staff Advisors: Dr. Lik Hang Lee, Dr. Ron Ree, Dr. Sam Wiseman. New members (photos coming soon!): Dr. Douglas Motomura, Dr. Janny Chen Ke, Dr. Johnathan Dick
LEARNING PILLAR ACTIVITIES
Connecting opportunities, support, and community for Medical Staff innovation
- Online innovation community for medical staff to share and discuss opportunities, innovation and ideas: Request an invitation to join from pass@providencehealth.bc.ca. (Include your name and specialty.)
- Identifying barriers to advancing innovation through medical staff consultation.
- Collaboration with PHC to develop and advance Ideas: Forward and Innovarium 360° A front door for medical staff to engage in innovation, access support and guidance for a new ideas.
LEARNING PILLAR-FUNDED MEDICAL STAFF PROJECTS 2024/25
- A Practical Roadmap for Innovating Physicians
- Introduction of Immediate Lymphatic Reconstruction (ILR) after Axillary Lymph Node Dissection (ALND) for Breast Cancer at PHC
Inspiring People & Teams
People Pillar Advisory Committee: Dr. Ana-Luiza Sayao (Consultant Lead), Becky Palmer (PHC VP Sponsor), Medical Staff Advisors: Dr. Lawrence Cheng, Dr. Shanta Chakrabarti, Dr. Joe Finkler, Dr. Debbie Rosenbaum, Dr. Vishal Varshney (Past Pillar Consultant Lead)
PEOPLE PILLAR ACTIVITIES
Supporting Medical Staff wellness, connections, and community
- Medical Staff Wellness Strategy: Supporting Dr Dan Kalla to respond to the results of the first Medical Staff Workplace and Wellness survey conducted in 2024 and collaborate on a strategy and plans to address medical staff wellness and burnout.
- Wellness and connection events for medical staff including:
- Celebrating Medical Staff Art and Creativity: Coming Fall 2024! Stay tuned for details.
- "Seeds for the Soul" workshop held in June 2024 provided medical staff with an inspiring and hands on way to connect outside of work by planting seeds.
- "Making Stress Leave Less Stressful" This event focused on support for medical staff to take stress leave. See the event takeaways here.
PEOPLE PILLAR-FUNDED MEDICAL STAFF PROJECTS 2024/25
- Physician Wellness Program PHC Cardiology
Partner to Transform Health Care
Partnerships Pillar Advisory Committee(L to R): Dr. Grace Li (Consultant Lead), Deborah Mitchell (PHC VP Sponsor). Medical Staff Advisors: Dr. Lik Hang Lee, Dr. Ron Ree. Not pictured: Dr. Jani Laramée
PARTNERSHIPS PILLAR ACTIVITIES
Coordinating clinical partnerships, connections, partners, and learning for patient care
- Medical Staff Site Visits provide opportunities for Medical Staff to get behind the scenes of clinical and patient services.
- Upcoming "Get to know the Care Coordination Centre" event on Wed. October 23, 2024 - A behind the scenes orientation of new high-tech centre for the new St. Paul's Hospital. See more information>
- A 2023 site orientation of Holy Family Hospital Long Term Care and Rehab services for medical staff whose patients interface with rehab and residential care services. See takeaways here.
- A 2022 Kílala Lelum community clinic site visit to give medical staff an opportunity to learn about the clinic's care model, and explore ways to improve patient experience and care transitions.
- Digital Health: The Partnerships Pillar secured a standing invitation to monthly Digital Health provider intake and prioritization meetings – an avenue to help to prioritize clinical informatics tasks based on providers' perspectives.
- Indigenous Wellness and Reconcilation (IWR) with Learning Pillar: Informed scheduling of Grand Rounds across medical departments to showcase IWR patient journey mapping findings.
PARTNERSHIPS PILLAR- FUNDED MEDICAL STAFF PROJECTS 2024/25
- ED/Anesthesia Nerve Block initiative
- Improving Indigenous Health Experiences through Indigenous Guided Resident Teaching
PARTNERSHIPS PILLAR-FUNDED DIVISION TO DIVISION MEETINGS 2024/25
Joint meetings between divisions/department members who share common patients — to enhance their work, interests, or goals, and enable more optimized and collaborative patient care.
- Anesthesiology with Perioperative Internal Medicine Group (IMPCT) & Geriatricians
- Orthopedics with Internal Medicine, Microbiology, Vascular Surgery, Infectious Disease, Nurse Practitioners, Nephrology, Wound Care, Endocrinology, Plastic Surgery, Addictions Medicine
- Midwifery with Obstetrics & Family Practice
- Palliative Care with Anesthesia
- Dept. of Medicine Division of Neurology with Medicine, Ophthalmology (Neuro and Plastics), and Radiology (Interventional)
- Paediatrics with Obstetrics and Gynaecology
- Infectious Disease with Psychiatry
- Endocrinology/Medicine with General Surgery, ENT, Radiology, Nephrology, Radiation Oncology, Oncology, Nuclear Medicine; Community
SEE MORE ON OUR PILLAR WEB PAGE
Strategic Pillars: Our Impact
Reflections from current and past Consultant Leads
"In these big decisions that affect our work, we need to be involved from inception. Through our pillar roles, we are seeing our involvement increase earlier and in the planning stages." - Dr. Grace Li, Partnerships Pillar
"Senior Leaders are accessible to us in a way that they were not in the past. They are very receptive to medical staff input." - Dr. Adrienne Melck, Quality Pillar
"The process is more transparent... We can reach out to senior leaders, and they get value when they know how to connect with a medical staff representative as well." - Dr. Amin Sajan, Learning Pillar
"We can be stewards for how the organization is meeting metrics laid out in strategic plan in relation to medical staff priorities." - Dr. Vishal Varshney, People Pillar
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