Teaching and training
Your donations make our work possible.
Your donation to St. Paul’s Foundation is not just a financial contribution; it’s a force that has the potential to create ripples of change throughout our entire community. Every dollar you contribute is transformed into positive and life-changing discoveries, impacting those who need it most.
When you give to St. Paul’s Foundation, you support the teaching and training of our professionals at a time when they’re ready to build their knowledge and expertise to improve health care today and to take medicine into the future at the new St. Paul’s Hospital at the Jim Pattison Medical Campus.
Your gift will help dedicate infrastructure for engaged, in-person training and mentorship for our nurses and allied health professionals, and give them the opportunity to apply their research and innovation to bedside care. It will position our patients and their families as true partners in their care.
Your support will give our health care leaders the momentum to contribute to a culture that embraces Value Based Health Care for the good of patients and the wider community.
Together, we can lead the way in advancing innovative, life-changing research, developing new treatments, and improving health care and quality of life for diverse and empowered patient populations.
CREST: The power of research
CREST, our Centre for Research Training for Nurses and Allied Health Professionals initiative, stands at the forefront of groundbreaking health care innovation. It’s not just a program; it’s a commitment to turning research into real-world impact, ensuring that every advancement translates into better patient care.
Your donation is the key that empowers our expertly trained nurses and allied health professionals to take their transformational ideas to new heights.
Our teams have the knowledge and the skills to innovate in real-time, but gaps in the idea-to-impact pipeline make this a challenging process. Your donation is like a bridge, helping our health care workers to cross the abyss from their initial idea to real impacts on people’s lives. CREST gives health care workers the time, funding, tools, and mentorship to turn research into patient care.
The impact of your gift
Because of your generosity, we will be able to develop unique infrastructure for operations and fellowships; provide a comprehensive training program to meet the educational needs of nurses and allied health professionals; and form a strong advisory group made up of leaders in research, clinical practice, and patient stakeholders.
CREST’s enriched training programs related to graduate degrees, post-doctoral fellowships, and clinical graduate fellowship research will appeal to the best and brightest professionals across Canada.
Patient partner: Elevating patient voices
A patient partner is a new position designed to ensure our innovative treatments strike a chord with those who matter most – our patients. This unique role amplifies patient voices, turning them from a passive participant to an integral part of our health care practice; this role goes beyond conventional care, ensuring patient voices resonate at all levels of their health care journey.
The impact of your gift
A contribution towards patient partners supports our mission to amplify patient voices and ensures that patients can take an active role in the decisions that shape their well-being, and their future.
With your help, we will be able to enhance the patient partner program, providing resources for extensive patient engagement initiatives and training, and fostering collaboration between patients and health care providers. Your contribution empowers patients to play a pivotal role in decision-making processes, creating a more patient-centric health care approach that not only benefits individuals now but also enhances the health care experience for future patients. Your generosity transforms health care into more than just a clinical process; it becomes a collaborative journey where patients and healthcare teams work together towards holistic well-being.
Quality Improvement: A challenge worth fighting
The Quality Improvement (QI) Challenge is a commitment to excellence woven into the core of Providence Health Care (PHC). QI supports initiatives that empower health care providers with the knowledge and skills they need to be at the forefront of the latest medical advancements.
The concepts behind continuous QI are central to our goals of building upon and maintaining our proven excellence. QI is not just an initiative; it’s a philosophy ingrained in our commitment to fostering a healthy, high-quality health care culture. This culture not only protects our staff from burnout but also empowers them to take the initiative in changing and improving processes and procedures that could impact patient care.
The impact of your gift
Your donation is a direct investment in the overall quality of care our patients receive. It goes beyond immediate impact, shaping a health care environment where excellence is not just a goal but a continuous journey. With your support, we will continue to foster a culture that prioritizes patient well-being, ensuring that every individual receives the highest standard of care.
With your help, our QI team will be able to add significant learning enhancements, while providing an opportunity for more frontline staff to participate in its popular eight-month training program: the QI Challenge. This initiative empowers health care providers with the knowledge and skills needed to stay ahead of the latest advancements. It ensures our care teams are not just well-trained; they are leaders in providing leading-edge care.
Value-based health care: Shaping the future of medicine
Value-based health care (VBHC) transforms the traditional model of care, focusing on understanding and measuring health outcomes crucial to patients. Teams of care providers collaborate and partner with patients who share similar medical needs, fostering a holistic and patient-centric approach.
By emphasizing the relationship between patients, caregivers, and medical teams, VBHC aims to make the health care experience less chaotic, eliminating silos and creating a connected care cycle, and reducing the cost of health care.
By donating, you enable our medical professionals to gain expert-level experience through the Master of Science in Health Care Transformation at the University of Texas–Austin. An intense one-year interactive degree, this program is designed for those who seek to hone or improve VBHC practices.
The impact of your gift
With your support, we can bring compassionate, modern health care into the future.
Your donation equips our medical teams with opportunities to learn, innovate, and share their knowledge broadly across the organization and inspire a new generation of VBHC leaders.
Give today
Your support is pivotal
Your decision to support teaching and training at PHC is a powerful act of heroism that resonates beyond the confines of 17 sites. Every dollar resonates as a force for positive and life-changing discoveries, directly impacting those in need.
Your gift will help dedicate infrastructure for engaged, in-person training and mentorship for our nurses and allied health professionals, and give them the opportunity to apply their research and innovation to bedside care. It will position our patients and their families as true partners in their care, and give them a voice in the development of a brand-new medical campus.
Your support will give our health care leaders the momentum to contribute to a culture that embraces VBHC for the good of patients and the wider community.
Together, we can lead the way in advancing innovative, life-changing research, developing new treatments, and transforming health care today and in the future at the Jim Pattison Medical Campus.
Thank you.