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    • What Are Community Health Centres?
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    • Centre for Rural and Remote Mental Health (Australia)
    • BC Primary Health Care Research Network
    • Delivery models of rural surgical services in BC (1996-2005)
    • Entrepreneurial Activities of Rural Coalitions in Advancing Access to Healthcare 2017
    • General Practice Services Committee (GPSC)
    • Health Sciences Association
    • Physician retention and recruitment outside urban BC (Thommasen, 2000)
    • Plan H (BC Healthy Communities Society)
    • Rural Coordination Centre of BC
    • An investigation of Rural Citizen Patient Priorities for Health Planning – SURVEY
    • Citizen Patient Community Participation in Health Care Planning 2019
    • Community-Level Strategies for Recruiting and Retaining Health Care Providers to Rural and Remote Areas
    • Local Evidence for Health Planning through a Rural Lens
    • UBC Rural Evidence Review aims to identify highest-priority health needs in rural BC communities
    • The Rural Road Map
    • Select Standing Committee on Health – Looking Forward – 2017 Report
    • BC Residential Care Facilities Quick Facts Directory
    • Seniors Advocate – Residential Care Facilities – Directory 2018
    • Seniors Advocate – Quick Facts Report 2018
    • Seniors Advocate – Residential Care Survey
    • The Society of Rural Physicians of Canada
    • The BC Rural Centre
    • Workforce retention in rural and remote Australia
    • Putting Our Minds Together: Research and Knowledge Management Strategy
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    • Share Your Story
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    • BC Rural and First Nations Health and Wellness Summit Summary Report
    • Out-of-Pocket Costs for Rural Residents When Traveling for Health Care
    • Access to Adult Tertiary Mental Health and Substance Use Services – Auditor General Report
    • Rural Road Map – Society of Rural Physicians
    • Restoring Trust: COVID-19 and The Future of Long-Term Care
    • The Place of Assisted Living in BC’s Seniors Care System
    • Privatization the pre-existing condition killing seniors in long-term care
    • Under-regulated, under-researched and largely privatized: Assisted living seniors’ care in BC
    • Assisted Living in BC – Trends February 2020
    • Isobel MacKenzie – Reports
    • Community Factors and Strategies for Recruiting and Retaining Health Care Providers to Rural and Remote Areas
    • In Hospitals, housekeepers are truly the ‘keepers of the house’.
    • From Residential Care to Hospital: An Emerging Pattern Aug 2018
    • Privatization and Declining Access to BC Seniors’ Care
    • Care Outcomes in Long Term Care Facilities in BC
    • Final Report of the Advisory Council on the Implementation of National Pharmacare
    • Provincial Health Care Partners’ Planning Retreat – Summary Report
    • Report on the Policy Discussion between BCRHN and MoH 2018
    • Putting Our Minds Together Ministry of Health Dec 2017
    • Report on the Health Sciences Association Conference April 2018
    • BCRHN Report to Ministry of Health on CHC Policy Development
    • Highest Priority Health Needs in Rural Communities
    • Review of Family Medicine in Rural/Remote Canada
    • CPC Participation in Health Care Planning
    • “What Matters to You?” Evaluation Report 2018/19
    • SOS Division – PCN Issues Paper September 2019
    • SOS Division – PCN Report September 2019
    • Provincial Health Care Partners’ Planning Retreat – Summary Report April 2019
    • Policy Discussion between BCRHN and MoH June 2018
    • Putting Out Fires – Use of Patient Complaints to Drive Improvements 2018
    • Residential Care Facilities BC Quick Facts 2018
    • Highest Priority Health Needs in Rural BC Communities 2019
    • Rural Health Services Research Network May 2018 Conference
    • Physician Retention and Recruitment Outside Urban British Columbia 2000
    • Workforce Retention in Rural and Remote Australia 2002
    • The ‘Whole-of-Person Retention Improvement Framework’
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  • Welcome
  • Members
    • Ashcroft
    • Bella Coola
    • Castlegar and District Hospital Foundation
    • Chase
    • City of Castlegar
    • East Shore Kootenay Lake
    • Fort Nelson
    • Fort St. John
    • Fraser Lake
    • Hedley/Vancouver
    • Hornby and Denman Islands
    • Kaslo and Area D
    • Langley/BC Association of Community Response Networks
    • Nakusp
    • Nanaimo
    • Nelson
    • New Denver Hospice Society
    • Nuu-chah-nulth
    • Pender Island Health Care Society
    • Powell River
    • Prince George Native Friendship Centre
    • Princeton
    • Quadra Island Health Society
    • Roberts Creek/Sunshine Coast
    • Salt Spring Island
    • Salt Spring Island Community Health Society
    • Sicamous
    • Sicamous Municipality
    • Silverton
    • Slocan Chamber of Commerce
    • Sorrento
    • South Shuswap
    • Trail
    • UBC – Centre for Rural Health Research – RER
    • Valemount
    • Vancouver – Rural Coordination Centre of BC
    • Village of New Denver
    • Village of Slocan
    • Member of the Month
  • Membership Form
  • News Articles
    • COVID-19
    • VIRTUAL CARE
    • ALZHEIMERS/DEMENTIA
    • DRUGS/ADDICTION
    • FIRST NATIONS, ABORIGINAL, MÉTIS
    • IMPROVEMENTS/SOLUTIONS
    • INTERVIEWS
    • NURSE PRACTITIONERS
    • PHARMA
    • PHYSICIAN SHORTAGE
    • PRIVATE FOR PROFIT
    • PRIMARY HEALTHCARE
    • Residential Care/Nursing Homes/Seniors Housing
    • RURAL/REMOTE
    • SENIORS
    • URGENT PRIMARY CARE CENTRES (UPCCs)
    • WAIT TIMES
    • Vancouver – Rural Coordination Centre of BC
    • The Fix – New Program for Ontario Nursing Home
  • BCRHNetwork Newsletters
    • September 2020
    • August 2020
    • July 2020
    • June 2020
    • May 2020
    • April 2020
    • March 2020
    • February 2020
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    • December 2019
    • October/November 2019
    • September 2019
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    • June 2019
    • April 2019
    • March – 2019
    • Feb – 2019
  • News Releases
  • Resources
    • Hospice Care
    • Drugsearch
    • A Pathway to Hope: A roadmap for making mental health and addictions care better for people in British Columbia
    • VIRTUAL CARE
      • Virtual Care Guide for Patients
      • Visual Analytics Support for HEiDi
    • COVID-19
    • Are you the Victim of a Prescribing Cascade?
    • UNBC Health Research Institute
    • Free online presentation on medication safety for older adults and their caregivers
    • Healthy Aging CORE
    • A Billion Reasons to Care – Office of the Seniors Ombudsman
    • The importance of community health centres in BC’s primary care reforms: What the research tells us
    • Nav-CARE – Navigating life and aging with chronic illness
    • How to Establish Intergenerational Groups in Your Community
    • Rural Site Visit Project
    • Patient Medical Homes
    • BC Healthy Communities
    • CPC Participation in Health Care Planning
    • Caring for Older Adults
    • Rural Health Services Research Network
    • BC Academic Health Science Network Strategic Plan – Looking Forward
    • Michael Smith Foundation
    • Seniors helping seniors
    • Statement on Cultural Safety and Humility – FNHA
    • The Primary Care Network Indigenous Engagement and Cultural Safety Guidebook
    • SOS Primary Care Network Issues Paper
    • SOS Primary Care Network Report
    • Aging Out: moving toward queer and trans competent care for seniors.
    • Policy Brief – RER
    • BC Patient Safety & Quality Council
    • BC Association of Community Health Centres
    • What Are Community Health Centres?
    • BC Health Coalition
    • BC Ministry of Health
    • BC Patient Advisory Committee (Patient Voices Network)
    • Patients Travelling From Urban Geographies To Rural Hospitals For Procedural Care: A Realist Consideration
    • Centre for Rural and Remote Mental Health (Australia)
    • BC Primary Health Care Research Network
    • Delivery models of rural surgical services in BC (1996-2005)
    • Entrepreneurial Activities of Rural Coalitions in Advancing Access to Healthcare 2017
    • General Practice Services Committee (GPSC)
    • Health Sciences Association
    • Physician retention and recruitment outside urban BC (Thommasen, 2000)
    • Plan H (BC Healthy Communities Society)
    • Rural Coordination Centre of BC
    • An investigation of Rural Citizen Patient Priorities for Health Planning – SURVEY
    • Citizen Patient Community Participation in Health Care Planning 2019
    • Community-Level Strategies for Recruiting and Retaining Health Care Providers to Rural and Remote Areas
    • Local Evidence for Health Planning through a Rural Lens
    • UBC Rural Evidence Review aims to identify highest-priority health needs in rural BC communities
    • The Rural Road Map
    • Select Standing Committee on Health – Looking Forward – 2017 Report
    • BC Residential Care Facilities Quick Facts Directory
    • Seniors Advocate – Residential Care Facilities – Directory 2018
    • Seniors Advocate – Quick Facts Report 2018
    • Seniors Advocate – Residential Care Survey
    • The Society of Rural Physicians of Canada
    • The BC Rural Centre
    • Workforce retention in rural and remote Australia
    • Putting Our Minds Together: Research and Knowledge Management Strategy
    • Centre for Rural and Remote Mental Health (Australia)
    • Rural Evidence Review Project/Centre for Rural Health Research – Survey
    • Share Your Story
    • Colleges
  • Petitions/Letters
  • Reports/Research
    • AGM 2020
    • BC Rural and First Nations Health and Wellness Summit Summary Report
    • Out-of-Pocket Costs for Rural Residents When Traveling for Health Care
    • Access to Adult Tertiary Mental Health and Substance Use Services – Auditor General Report
    • Rural Road Map – Society of Rural Physicians
    • Restoring Trust: COVID-19 and The Future of Long-Term Care
    • The Place of Assisted Living in BC’s Seniors Care System
    • Privatization the pre-existing condition killing seniors in long-term care
    • Under-regulated, under-researched and largely privatized: Assisted living seniors’ care in BC
    • Assisted Living in BC – Trends February 2020
    • Isobel MacKenzie – Reports
    • Community Factors and Strategies for Recruiting and Retaining Health Care Providers to Rural and Remote Areas
    • In Hospitals, housekeepers are truly the ‘keepers of the house’.
    • From Residential Care to Hospital: An Emerging Pattern Aug 2018
    • Privatization and Declining Access to BC Seniors’ Care
    • Care Outcomes in Long Term Care Facilities in BC
    • Final Report of the Advisory Council on the Implementation of National Pharmacare
    • Provincial Health Care Partners’ Planning Retreat – Summary Report
    • Report on the Policy Discussion between BCRHN and MoH 2018
    • Putting Our Minds Together Ministry of Health Dec 2017
    • Report on the Health Sciences Association Conference April 2018
    • BCRHN Report to Ministry of Health on CHC Policy Development
    • Highest Priority Health Needs in Rural Communities
    • Review of Family Medicine in Rural/Remote Canada
    • CPC Participation in Health Care Planning
    • “What Matters to You?” Evaluation Report 2018/19
    • SOS Division – PCN Issues Paper September 2019
    • SOS Division – PCN Report September 2019
    • Provincial Health Care Partners’ Planning Retreat – Summary Report April 2019
    • Policy Discussion between BCRHN and MoH June 2018
    • Putting Out Fires – Use of Patient Complaints to Drive Improvements 2018
    • Residential Care Facilities BC Quick Facts 2018
    • Highest Priority Health Needs in Rural BC Communities 2019
    • Rural Health Services Research Network May 2018 Conference
    • Physician Retention and Recruitment Outside Urban British Columbia 2000
    • Workforce Retention in Rural and Remote Australia 2002
    • The ‘Whole-of-Person Retention Improvement Framework’
  • Blogs, Bulletins & Presentations
  • Videos
  • Conferences/Workshops/Webinars
  • Surveys and/or Volunteers needed for Research
  • BCRHN Letters
  • Success Stories
    • Rural Innovations and Site Visits Website – RCCbc
    • Specialists for Princeton Project
  • Contact us

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