2020 Jago Award winners: Collaboration
Northern Health (NH) strives to make our values – empathy, respect, collaboration, and innovation – the core of what we do every day. The Dr. Charles Jago Awards, named after our former board c...
Collaboration
Bee-ing flexible: School pollinator program engages students at home
(Note: this article was authored with support from Margo Peill, Northwest region community animator with Farm to School BC) In the last months of the 2019-2020 school year, schools worked hard to f...
Improving communication for COVID-19 patients on ventilators
COVID-19 has had a tremendous impact on health authorities and patients around the world. It’s hard to imagine the experience a patient goes through when the unthinkable happens and they are hospita...
Community collaboration in Fort Nelson results in better care
“It’s a team thing,” says Tony LaRocque. “I know that’s the secret to making anything work on a community level – just collaborating. Know the resources in the community and work together....
Let’s Talk Northern Health: Your voice to our projects
Northern Health is committed to connecting with the public, our patients and families, our staff and physicians, and other stakeholders in two-way communication that makes sure our decisions are infor...
Engagement initiative brings physicians and health authority closer together
A recent meeting at the University Hospital of Northern BC (UHNBC) in Prince George highlighted how a provincial initiative that aims to enhance physician engagement is making a difference. Facilit...
Devin Kvist – Critical Care Nurse (Quesnel)
“We bake each other cookies, shovel each other’s driveways, that’s the type of community we have here.” See why Devon loves living in Quesnel. ...