What changes when a Long Term Care (LTC) facility transitions from paper charts to electronic health records for clinical documentation? Quite a lot, as staff
Acute care hospital staff have access to the full patient chart of patients arriving from additional long term care (LTC) facilities in the South Island.
A new process for ordering “pass” medications in the electronic health record (EHR) will help care teams collaborate and plan for hospital patients and long-term
Before Canada and BC were formed, Indigenous peoples lived in balance and interconnectedness with the land and water in which the necessities of life are provided. Health disparities persist, which are due to the impacts of colonization and Indigenous-specific racism. Healthy lands, healthy people. Island Health acknowledges and recognizes these homelands and the stewardship of Indigenous peoples of this land; it is with humility we continue to work toward building our relationship.
