What Makes a Community Health Centre Successful?
Lessons for Canadian Community Health Centres (CHCs) on Value, Structure, and Measurement.
“The Pitt” and the patient: Reflections on Empathy and Health Systems
I may be late to the proverbial “party” on this one (as usual), but I recently watched The Pitt, (a show set over one 15-hour hospital shift in a hospital’s ER in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania), and given my work history in healthcare, some of the themes really hit home. I’ve never worked in a hospital, but I was struck by how the show pulls the viewer into every small moment, every decision, every bit of exhaustion and empathy that defines a day in healthcare.
Using Systems Thinking to Bridge the Gap between Family Medicine & Allied Healthcare
One of the challenges with our Canadian healthcare system is how disjointed it can be at certain points in a patient’s care journey. Within the hospital system, roles exist to examine and resolve these handoff points, but one area I’ve grappled with throughout my career as a leader of health centres is the disconnection between Family Practice and allied health practitioners.