How are we engaging for Cultural Safety?
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- Medical Staff Association (MSA) initiatives are helping to build towards more culturally safe care in BC health care facilities, through MSA partnerships with Indigenous communities, health authorities, and Divisions of Family Practice. Here are a few of many examples of how Facility Engagement is providing support for engagement. See more here.
PRINCE GEORGE: Health care and Indigenous community partners have collaborated to improve cultural safety at the University Hospital of Northern BC's Emergency Department (UHNBC-ED). The group’s focus on truth-telling and sharing stories has led to concrete actions by Northern Health including making the ED more welcoming with medicine wheel artwork, a ceremonial drum, and bilingual Dakelh signage, and hiring Indigenous Health Service Assistants and a Patient Liaison to help patients navigate the ED and hospital. Learn more>
PENTICTON: Meaningful collaboration is fostering positive change to improve culturally safe care in the emergency department, often first point of contact for Indigenous people seeking medical care. Two key education events created for health care providers from the Penticton Regional Hospital and Indigenous community members respectively, are leading to positive change through listening, learning, and fostering relationships. Learn more>
DAAJING GIIDS, HAIDA GWAII: A hospital-community partnership agreement is guiding collaborative action between medical providers, the health authority, and Haida community members to deliver culturally-sensitive services. It includes renaming the hospital and health centre to Ngaaysdll Naay (Haida Gwaii Healing House), and inviting elders to teach physicians and staff the Haida language, share meals, and help develop an Indigenous-based health care curriculum. Learn more>
100 MILE HOUSE: Physicians were invited to the Tsq̓éscen̓ First Nation (Canim Lake Band) for a day of learning, connecting, and collaboration. In a program co-designed by the White Feather Family Centre and the Nation, four physicians participated in a tour of the land, smudging ceremony, and traditional meal with storytelling to explore racism in health care. As part of this effort, smudging and Indigenous artwork are being incorporated into medical facilities to create a more welcoming environment for Indigenous patients. Learn more>
CHILLIWACK GENERAL HOSPITAL (CGH): Health care providers, Fraser Health cultural safety staff, Stó:lō Health Services, and Indigenous community members are collaborating to build culturally safe care. As a key step, Indigenous patients have been invited to share their experiences in hospital care, and Indigenous partners have advised on improvements. Learn more>
VANCOUVER: The Engaging Physicians in the Cultural Safety (EPIC) group is a collaborative initiative between the MSA and Vancouver Coastal Health that is prioritizing cultural safety through meaningful partnerships. Its three key strategies include arranging for accredited educational resources, learning from an Indigenous Health patient experience think tank, and holding Indigenous Health Rounds, where Indigenous voices engage with health care professionals for knowledge sharing, dialogue, and to brainstorm solutions. Learn more>
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