🎙️ Space flight and health care might have more in common than you think. 🚀 This special episode of The Heart of It features Robert Thirsk and Dave (Dafydd) Williams, who began their careers as physicians before becoming record-setting astronauts and health care administrators. 👨🚀 Bob and Dave talk about their out-of-this-world experiences and the many similarities between space exploration and health care, from intense training and robotics to virtual health and a responsibility to take care of our home planet. 👉 Listen to or watch the episode: https://ow.ly/TxXK50Tsbaq 🎧 Did you catch our previous episode, which was a conversation about death and dying? Subscribe in your favourite podcast player app so you don’t miss a beat.
About us
The ❤️ of health care from Burnaby to Boston Bar on the traditional, ancestral and unceded lands of the Coast Salish and Nlaka’pamux Nations, and is home to 32 First Nations within the territories of the Fraser Salish region.
- Website
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http://www.fraserhealth.ca
External link for Fraser Health Authority
- Industry
- Hospitals and Health Care
- Company size
- 10,001+ employees
- Headquarters
- Surrey, BC
- Type
- Government Agency
- Founded
- 2001
- Specialties
- public health care, acute and community, mental health and substance use, home and community care, residential care, surgery, emergency care and trauma, labour and delivery, NICU, and environmental health
Locations
Employees at Fraser Health Authority
Updates
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Join our dedicated team of dietitians! Fraser Health offers extensive support, resources and tools that will help you build a fulfilling career. You'll get to work alongside a team of dietitian experts to support your career journey, growth and development with us, too. Learn more: https://loom.ly/9Tkn4EQ
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With a little bit of heart, we can face anything together. Is there someone from the Fraser Health team who you are grateful to? We’d love to know. https://ow.ly/SVuV50Tr8uJ #hearttoheart Burnaby Hospital Foundation
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VIDEO: Go behind-the-scenes with Royal Columbian Hospital staff and clinicians as they tour the future Emergency Department at the Jim Pattison Acute Care Tower. Once complete, this expansion will allow our staff and medical staff to provide care to thousands more patients. Interested in working with a great team in a brand-new facility? We’re hiring! Visit our Careers page: https://lnkd.in/gyEYdhpM #healthcarecareers #RoyalColumbianHospital
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💙Our neonatal nurses are at the heart of what we do. And together, our people are the heart of health care. It's #NationalNeonatalNursesWeek! Show your appreciation for a neonatal nurse by tagging them in the comments! #ItTakesHeart #NeonatalNursesWeek
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Congratulations to Dr. Sonia Singh and her team for receiving the Michael Smith Health Research BC 2024 Professional-Investigator Award. Dr. Singh, Peace Arch Hospital physician and osteoporosis consultant, has a legacy of having started the first Fracture Liaison Service (FLS) in B.C. at Peace Arch Hospital in 2015. Our hats off to Dr. Singh for being an early adopter of the concept of patient-oriented research and actively involving patients as partners in all of her research projects.
📢 ANNOUNCEMENT: We’re excited to announce the 2024 Scholar and Health Professional-Investigator award recipients! As BC’s health research agency, we continue building on our legacy of talent development and research capacity building. Through these awards, we are expanding support to researchers across the province to deliver evidence to improve the health of British Columbians. This year’s award recipients are investigating diverse research areas including: developing equity-centered language with First Nations, Inuit, and Métis peoples to reduce anti-Indigenous discrimination in healthcare; co-creating age and dementia-friendly communities; and using an equity-informed approach to enhance care for children and youth with a neurological condition. Meet the new awardees: https://lnkd.in/gfTewM7b #HealthResearchBCcommunity #HealthResearchFunding #BCtalent
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Information technology (IT) professionals are at the heart of what we do. And together, our people are the heart of health care. It's National IT Professionals Day! Thanks for all you do. Show your appreciation for your IT friends by tagging them in the comments! #ItTakesHeart
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Road trip! We're heading to Kamloops B.C. for the BC Society of Respiratory Therapists (#BCSRT) Conference this Thursday, September 19. Stop by our table and say hi to our recruiter, Bal! Can't make it? Reach out to [email protected] to learn about career opportunities in respiratory therapy across our health region: https://loom.ly/ZKsda0o
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🎙️ Graceful goodbyes: A conversation on death and dying It’s not always easy to talk about end-of-life care preferences – whether they be for ourselves, a loved one or someone in our care. Understanding what matters most as we journey to the end of our lives is so important. This episode of The Heart of It features a gentle and impactful conversation about palliative care, advance care planning and the path to end of life. Host Dr. Victoria Lee is joined by Tammy Dyson and Dr. Andrew Collins, two leaders within our end-of-life care and services. 👉 Listen to or watch the episode: https://ow.ly/aCZW50Tnpu4 🎧 Did you catch our previous episode, which was about how we plan for emergencies? Subscribe in your favourite podcast player app so you don’t miss a beat.
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Enhancing health care with AI.🌐 Fraser Health is partnering with Deloitte Canada on scheduling tools that leverage artificial intelligence (AI) and machine-learning solutions to accurately forecast the waves in demand we see in the health system. 📈 Read more about how we’re leveraging AI to optimize care: https://ow.ly/S3Rt50TncX0. SCALE AI | Canada's AI Global Innovation Cluster #FHinnovation #HealthCareTech