Gold Apple Dianna Mah-Jones Award of Excellence in Person-Centred Care

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The International Seating Symposium
Sunny Hill Health Centre for Children, Provincial Health Services Authority

In 1982, a group of Vancouverites wanted to learn more about seating and mobility services for people who are unable to walk or move due to physical disabilities. One challenge was that experts in related fields often worked in isolation making it difficult to share ideas, build on success and create synergy.

The solution: bring all the experts together in one place. The BC Kinsmen Foundation provided the initial funding, Sunny Hill Health Centre for Children stepped up to take the lead, and the fi rst International Seating Symposium was born. The symposium has created an international forum that fosters an exchange of ideas and a network of consumers, rehabilitation therapists, physicians, designers, and manufacturers of positioning and mobility equipment. Countless people have benefi ted from innovative products that have come from the symposium.

For inspiring improvements in rehabilitation equipment and technology that have improved mobility, comfort and quality of life for people with disabilities, the International Seating Symposium has been awarded the Dianna Mah-Jones Award of Excellence in Person-Centred Care.

Project Team: Maureen Story, Catherine Ellens, Roslyn Livingstone, Bob Stickney, Jennifer Law, Lynore McLean, Sherylin Gasior, Kathie Marina, Marnie Eastman, Janice Evans, Beth Ott, Kim Magnus, Veronica Atwill, Andy Brule, Pedro Peralta Elgueta, Pablo Quintero, Todd Romer, Daphne O’Young, Nicole Bruce, Sandy Lum, Aki Shigematsu

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