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Wound Care Distance Consulting
St. Adolphe Personal Care Home, a rural long-term care home, takes photos of difficult to heal wounds and e-mails them to a consulting dermatologist in the city. With this visual aid, the home's physician receives a more meaningful consult and has been successful...
Read MoreInterpretation of Laboratory Results
The team developed 'Interpretation of Laboratory Results,' a booklet that serves as an easy-to-read and complete reference guide for nursing staff. It helps nurses to understand the scope of the test, the rationale and clinical applicability, the range for...
Read MoreAiding Parents Experiencing Infant Loss (APEIL)
The Boundary Trails Health Centre of the Regional Health Authority Central Manitoba implemented an infant loss patient care program called Aiding Parents Experiencing Infant Loss (APEIL). This program was developed locally through a member of the community that has...
Read MoreClient Directed Outcome Informed (CDOI)
The addictions program has introduced Client Directed Outcome Informed (CDOI), a simple, measurable, effective and feasible outcome-based accountability process. At the beginning of each session, staff ask clients to evaluate how they are doing using the Outcome...
Read MoreAssessing and Treating Drug Users with Hepatitis C
Pender Community Health Centre introduced a model for assessing and treating drug users with Hepatitis C. The model involves a weekly peer support group facilitated by a professional counsellor, and a multidisciplinary primary care program that includes specific drug...
Read MoreRaising Community Awareness
The organization participated in Ascent for Alzheimer’s, with a representative climbing Mount Kilimanjaro to raise funds to fight Alzheimer’s. Communication around the event also served to raise community awareness of the disease.
Read MoreEthical Framework
Coast Mental Health has a wide variety of programs with competing interests. The organization developed an ethical decision making framework specifically to prioritize the allocation of discretionary resources. Decision makers work through a number of steps,...
Read MoreSimulation Lab Centre
The staff at Saad Specialist Hospital come from many countries and diverse cultural backgrounds which makes communication within team structures very complex. The hospital uses a sophisticated Simulation Lab Centre to ensure effective teamwork and communication. This...
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Health Standards Organization (HSO) and its affiliate, Accreditation Canada, have been identifying and publishing Leading Practices in the Leading Practices Library for over 15 years.
A Leading Practice is an innovative, people-centred, evidence-informed practice that has been implemented by teams in an organization. The leading practice has demonstrated a positive change related to safe and reliable care/service, accessible and appropriate care/service, and/or integrated care/service.
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