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#Guidelines, p.2 | #Guidelines, p.2 | ||
#Ministry of Health. Home and Community Care. Accountability: Family and Resident Councils. Online http://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/topic.page?id=96139325762343BB9F289A0C0F73D868 (Last accessed May 1, 2014) | #Ministry of Health. Home and Community Care. Accountability: Family and Resident Councils. Online http://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/topic.page?id=96139325762343BB9F289A0C0F73D868 (Last accessed May 1, 2014) | ||
#Ostensibly the reason for not including people whose family are no longer residents at the facility is a fear of “political advocacy”. | #Ostensibly the reason for not including people whose family are no longer residents at the facility is a fear of “political advocacy”. | ||
#For example Ontario’s Long-Term Care Homes Act, 2007, S.O. 2007, c. 8, s. 59-60 identifies the responsibility of the licensee to promote the establishment of the Family Council and respond to Council concerns in a specific timeframe. It sets out specific powers of the Council including rights to see the Licensee’s funding agreement information. | |||
#RCR, s. 38. | |||
#RCR, s. 40 (1). | |||
#Criminal Records Review Act [RSBC 1996] c. 86 | |||
#Patient Care Quality Review Board Act, Bill, 41, 2008, s. 1 | |||
#(2013) Patient Care Quality Office Resource Guide. Ministry of Health, p. 5. Online : http://www.phsa.ca/NR/rdonlyres/CF2CFA45-A2FC-45C6-920C-F775C740CA03/64611/PCQOResourceGuideMoHS_PHSA2012.pdf (Last accessed May 1, 2014). | |||
#See: Provincial Health Services Authority. Patient Care Quality Office. Online : http://www.phsa.ca/NR/rdonlyres/CF2CFA45-A2FC-45C6-920C-F775C740CA03/64611/PCQOResourceGuideMoHS_PHSA2012.pdf (Last accessed May 1, 2014). Also Note : Murtaugh, J. (2012). Patient Care Quality Program Final Evaluation Report. Prepared for BC Ministry of Health. Online: http://www.health.gov.bc.ca/library/publications/year/2012/patient-care-quality-program-evaluation-report.pdf [“Murtaugh”] Notes that staff find the PCQ timelines challenging and unreasonable. | |||
#Murtaugh. | |||
#See Murtaugh, pg. 17, Figure 1. | |||
#Murtaugh, pg. 24. | |||
#Murtaugh. | |||
#Murtaugh, p. 21. | |||
#Murtaugh, p. 41 | |||
#"care quality complaint" means a complaint | |||
##(a) respecting one or more of the following: | |||
###(i) the delivery of, or the failure to deliver, health care; | |||
###(ii) the quality of health care delivered; | |||
###(iii) the delivery of, or the failure to deliver, a service relating to health care; | |||
###(iv) the quality of any service relating to health care, and | |||
##(b) made by or on behalf of the individual to whom the health care or service was delivered or not delivered. "Health care" means anything that is provided to an individual for a therapeutic, preventive, palliative, diagnostic or other health related purpose, and includes (a) a course of health care, and (b) other prescribed services relating to individuals' health or well-being. | |||
#HCCCFAA, s.1 | |||
#HCCCFAA, s.1 | |||
#Patient Quality Care Review Board Act. Bill 41 (2008). Patient Care Quality Review Board, “Legislation” . Online: http://www.patientcarequalityreviewboard.ca/legislation.html (Last accessed May 1, 2014) | |||
#Patient Care Quality Review Board. “About us”. Online: http://www.patientcarequalityreviewboard.ca/aboutus.html (Last accessed May 1, 2014) | |||
#For an example of appeal board issues potentially affecting the care of residents, See: SB, CB, SG & JN v. Vancouver Island Health Authority & Cowichan Lodge. 2008 BCCCALAB 6. (Application for Stay order pending appeal - Granted) | |||
