2016 Award Recipients
Gold Apple recipients
Provincial Health Care Hero & Health Care Hero: Island Health
Heather Dunne: Manager, Ladysmith Primary Health Care Centre
Provincial Health Care Hero & Health Care Hero: PHSA
Dr. Jane Garland: Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist and Head of Mood & Anxiety Disorders Clinic, BC Children's Hospital
Health Care Hero: Affiliate
Dr. Christine Gemeinhardt: Medical Coordinator, KinVillage
Health Care Hero: Fraser Health
Dr. Joshua Greggain: Site Medical Director, Fraser Canyon Hospital and Community
Health Care Hero: Interior Health
Karen Ritchie: Regional Home Health Operations Knowledge Coordinator, East Kooteney Region
Health Care Hero: Northern Health
Barb Crook: Health Services Administrator, Mackenzie & District Hospital & Health Centre
Health Care Hero: Vancouver Coastal Health
Sandra Edelman: Manager, Public Health & Chronic Disease Services, Parkgate Community Health Centre
Collaborative Solutions
Provincial Health Services Authority: Trans Care BC
Workplace Health Innovation
Fraser Health - Lower Mainland Consolidated Integrated Protection Services: Reducing Violence in the Workplace - Client Ambassador Project
Top Innovation: Health Authority
Provincial Health Services Authority: Get Your Province Together! BC Cancer Agency Emotional Support Transformation
Top Innovation: Affiliate
Providence Health Care: Daily Chlorhexidine Gluconate (CHG) Bathing Project
2016 Awards of Merit
Awards of Merit were also presented in each of the four project-oriented award categories. This year’s Awards of Merit recipients are:
Top Innovation: Affiliate
Lower Mainland Health Information Management, Providence Health Care: Transcription Services project: Improving Quality, Efficiency and Accessibility
Providence Health Care: Practice-based Research Challenge
Top Innovation: Health Authority
BC Children’s Hospital, Provincial Health Services Authority: HEARTSSMAP TOOL
BC Cancer Agency, Sindi Ahluwalia Hawkins Centre for the Southern Interior: Collision Detection Team
Workplace Health Innovation
Vancouver Coastal Health: Respect Starts Here: Workplace Anti-Bullying project
BC Cancer Agency, Vancouver Centre: The Five Cs of Culture
Collaborative Solutions
BC Cancer Agency: Permanent Breast Seed Implants Brachytherapy
BC Cancer Agency: Personalized Onco-Genomics (POG) Program