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• So you can do your job more easily and in a more fulfilling way – whether it is to provide direct patient care or a supportive service.
• You can contribute to our collective effort to improve the health care system.

• The new campus will open in 2027, but now is the time to get involved and influence ongoing plans. Watch from updates from your Physician Directors.

• To date, individual doctors, groups of physicians, and department heads have all contributed in many ways to provide important perspectives and proposed solutions through a multitude of discussions, meetings and formal processes.
• We continue to discuss everything from clinical space needs and patient flow, to big picture changes, and scalable solutions across the hospital.

HERE’S HOW:

 JOIN DISCUSSIONS AND MEETINGS. Physician involvement is designed to be flexible, to allow physicians to join the conversation as your time permits. You can contribute in formal and informal ways through:

• • • Physician advisory groups
    • Department meetings
    • MSA Meetings

Submit your contact information and area of interest here.  The Physician Directors can let you know about upcoming opportunities.

PARTICIPATE AT ENGAGENSPH.CA, a new place for Providence employees and medical staff to have a voice in the new St. Paul’s Hospital and CSRC, to learn about the area you’ll work in, ask questions, view floor plans, join discussion, share ideas and more. Sign-in by using the red button for staff to be taken to your health authority network/computer login.

• The new St. Paul’s Hospital and Health Campus is the largest hospital redevelopment project in BC’s history. It will lead in the delivery of BC’s patient-centred model for health care by providing the highest quality, integrated, compassionate care, where and when it’s needed most.
• The approximately $2 billion project is being built on an undeveloped site at 1002 Station Street in the False Creek Flats. About twice the size of the current hospital, it will offer a degree of planning rarely seen.
• It includes a new hospital and a Clinical Support and Research Centre (CSRC).

• Our brand-new campus is not just about buildings. It is an opportunity to make the experience of care more understandable and effective for our patients and ourselves in the future.
• Transforming care means revisiting everything we do with innovative solutions: from how patients access our services, to how we work in procedural, outpatient and inpatient spaces, to the way we interact with learners.

• The hospital campus will be integrated with team-based primary care services, community services and support programs. Having primary care at our site will increase patient access to unscheduled visits (instead of the ER) and to a primary care provider for ongoing support.
• We will work in different ways with our new neighbours from different parts of the system.
• Acute, primary and community care providers need to shift together to make real, system-wide change, and the new Paul’s will be a catalyst for that shift.

• An integrated system of care aims to help people stay healthy, manage their chronic illnesses and address episodes of minor acute illnesses outside of the hospital, while providing high-quality critical and acute care services when they are very sick.
• Work is already underway across BC to shift patients’ reliance on acute care by strengthening primary and community care services. In new primary care networks in our communities, patients will have better access to responsive, preventative primary care, which in turn will help to prevent unnecessary hospital visits, and take pressures off acute care.
• Integration will be enabled by technological innovation that ranges from new communications and patient records systems to virtual care.

• We are looking at how transformation, innovation and integration can provide new ways of supporting growing numbers patients who need better solutions, especially in the following key populations:
  • frail elderly with multiple health issues
  • patients with chronic and complex health needs
  • people who need help for mental health issues and substance use
  • people requiring surgery and cancer care
• We provide provincial services in many disciplines, and we aim to partner widely with rural and remote primary care services make access to specialized services seamless.
• We see these kinds of patients every day as part of our urban services. At the same time, we provide provincial services (heart transplants, cochlear implants, etc.). Together, these perspectives uniquely position us to lead solutions in these areas of need.

• Integration creates a cross-discipline, team-based approach to care. It puts patients at the centre. All providers that contribute to their care (from acute to primary care) come together around them, and are connected to each other.
• Patients and families get high quality, seamless care from the time they access acute services until they return home.
• Patients will have options for unscheduled visits instead of the ER, and continuous support arranged in the community, primary care and at home after they leave the hospital. Their information will be shared among their providers, and when appropriate, they will be able connect with their doctor through a virtual care visit.

• You will be able to do your job with more support from people, new services, and technology, and better connections and communication across the hospital and system.
• You can find out how your patients are doing and get updates about their status with a care plan that is shared among providers.
• You will know that your patients are getting the best care, where and when they need it.

Here are just two examples of many:

• A comprehensive system of integrated care for mental health and substance use patients. A supportive, inter-professional team is activated from the moment a client arrives at the ER in crisis. Patients get non-stigmatizing care in a purpose-built, safe and effective mental health space; access to a stabilization unit if they need it; and transition to a multi-specialist outpatient clinic for short stays and ongoing support.
• A Centre for Healthy Aging outpatient centre for medically complex and frail elderly patients and their caregivers. Among other things, it provides an alternative to the ER for unscheduled medical visits, along with assessments that ensure the elderly are well supported to remain functionally independent as long as possible.