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    • How do Social Determinants of Health Affect Patient Wellness
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    • A Pathway to Hope: A roadmap for making mental health and addictions care better for people in British Columbia
    • BC Emergency Health Services
    • Home Support – Office of the Seniors Advocate BC
    • Healthcare Travelling Roadshow
    • Action for Reform of Residential Care (ARRCBC) Association
    • The British Columbia Patient-Centred Care Framework
    • Hospice Care
    • The Rural Road Map
    • Drugsearch
    • 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
    • General Practice Services Committee (GPSC)
    • Nav-CARE – Navigating life and aging with chronic illness
    • How to Establish Intergenerational Groups in Your Community
    • 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
    • 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 Ministry of Health
    • The Society of Rural Physicians of Canada
    • BC Health Coalition
    • 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
    • Health Sciences Association
    • Physician retention and recruitment outside urban BC (Thommasen, 2000)
    • Plan H (BC Healthy Communities Society)
    • Rural Coordination Centre of BC
    • 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
    • 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 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
    • Youth Mental Health Report RCCbc
    • Citizen-Patient-Community Participation in Health Care Planning….
    • A Higher Standard in LTC Homes
    • Family Councils in Long Term Care
    • Home Support – Seniors Advocate
    • Rural Road Map – Society of Rural Physicians
    • Priorities for BCRHN
    • Community Health Centres
    • Contracting-Out Care in Nursing Homes
    • BCRHN 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
    • 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/Podcasts
  • Conferences/Workshops/Webinars
  • Surveys and/or Volunteers needed for Research
  • BCRHN Letters
  • Success Stories/Innovations
    • Hospital at Home program – Victoria
    • Youth Poverty Solutions
    • Travelling Roadshow
    • Hip and knee surgeries
    • Rural Innovations and Site Visits Website – RCCbc
    • Drug Delivery by Drone
    • Specialists for Princeton Project
  • BCRHN Minutes
    • 2020 – Dec 8 Board Meeting
  • Contact us

Rural Coordination Centre of BC

The Rural Coordination Centre of BC works on behalf of the 
Joint Standing Committee on Rural Issues (JSC), an entity that advises the BC government and the Doctors of BC (formerly the BCMA) on matters pertaining to rural medical practice.

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  • Welcome
  • Members
    • Ashcroft
    • Bella Coola
    • Castlegar and District Hospital Foundation
    • Chase
    • City of Castlegar
    • Cortes Island
    • 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
    • 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
    • PRIVATE For PROFIT/Corporations
    • VIRTUAL CARE
    • URGENT PRIMARY CARE CENTRES (UPCCs)
    • LONG TERM CARE
    • DRUGS/ADDICTION
    • RURAL/REMOTE
    • FIRST NATIONS, ABORIGINAL, MÉTIS
    • How do Social Determinants of Health Affect Patient Wellness
    • DISCRIMINATION in HEALTHCARE
    • PRIMARY HEALTHCARE
    • ALZHEIMERS/DEMENTIA
    • IMPROVEMENTS/SOLUTIONS
    • INTERVIEWS
    • NURSE PRACTITIONERS
    • Pharmacare
    • PHYSICIAN SHORTAGE
    • SENIORS
    • WAIT TIMES
    • Vancouver – Rural Coordination Centre of BC
    • The Fix – New Program for Ontario Nursing Home
  • BCRHNetwork Newsletters
    • January 2021
    • December 2020
    • November 2020
    • October 2020
    • September 2020
    • August 2020
    • July 2020
    • June 2020
    • May 2020
    • April 2020
    • March 2020
    • February 2020
    • January 2020
    • December 2019
    • October/November 2019
    • September 2019
    • August 2019
    • July 2019
    • June 2019
    • April 2019
    • March – 2019
    • Feb – 2019
  • News Releases
  • Resources
    • Family Councils
    • First Nations/Aboriginal/Métis
    • Youth Mental Health
    • Rural Site Visit Project
    • BC Primary Health Care Research Network
    • A Pathway to Hope: A roadmap for making mental health and addictions care better for people in British Columbia
    • BC Emergency Health Services
    • Home Support – Office of the Seniors Advocate BC
    • Healthcare Travelling Roadshow
    • Action for Reform of Residential Care (ARRCBC) Association
    • The British Columbia Patient-Centred Care Framework
    • Hospice Care
    • The Rural Road Map
    • Drugsearch
    • 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
    • General Practice Services Committee (GPSC)
    • Nav-CARE – Navigating life and aging with chronic illness
    • How to Establish Intergenerational Groups in Your Community
    • 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
    • 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 Ministry of Health
    • The Society of Rural Physicians of Canada
    • BC Health Coalition
    • 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
    • Health Sciences Association
    • Physician retention and recruitment outside urban BC (Thommasen, 2000)
    • Plan H (BC Healthy Communities Society)
    • Rural Coordination Centre of BC
    • 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
    • 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 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
    • Youth Mental Health Report RCCbc
    • Citizen-Patient-Community Participation in Health Care Planning….
    • A Higher Standard in LTC Homes
    • Family Councils in Long Term Care
    • Home Support – Seniors Advocate
    • Rural Road Map – Society of Rural Physicians
    • Priorities for BCRHN
    • Community Health Centres
    • Contracting-Out Care in Nursing Homes
    • BCRHN 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
    • 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/Podcasts
  • Conferences/Workshops/Webinars
  • Surveys and/or Volunteers needed for Research
  • BCRHN Letters
  • Success Stories/Innovations
    • Hospital at Home program – Victoria
    • Youth Poverty Solutions
    • Travelling Roadshow
    • Hip and knee surgeries
    • Rural Innovations and Site Visits Website – RCCbc
    • Drug Delivery by Drone
    • Specialists for Princeton Project
  • BCRHN Minutes
    • 2020 – Dec 8 Board Meeting
  • Contact us

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