BC Children's Hospital

BC Children's Hospital delivers child and youth health and rehabilitation services and is the province's major treatment, teaching and research facility for child health, with over 200,000 children cared for on an annual basis.

As an agency of the Provincial Health Services Authority (PHSA), BC Children’s supports PHSA’s three primary strategic directions, outlined in the PHSA Strategic Plan:

• Improving quality outcomes and providing better value for patients
• Promoting healthier populations
• Contributing to a sustainable health care system

BC Children’s support for PHSA's strategic directions by delivering on its seven Core Actions and six Key Initiatives.

Core Actions 

1. Improve quality. Be safe.
2. Educate, learn and discover
3. Deliver innovative sub-specialized care
4. Work together as a caring team
5. Partner with families
6. Plan provincially
7. Collaborate to create novel community-based approaches

Key Initiatives

1. New Academic Health Centre Site Re-development
2. Collaborative Areas of Innovation
3. Child Health Quality Resource Centre
4. Child Health Information Strategy
5. Provincial Child Health Framework
6. Advance the Academic Health Science Model

last updated: Nov 9, 2010