Shared Care Projects

Get involved in community-driven health care improvement, lead quality projects, and build leadership skills—all while being compensated for your valuable contributions.

What is Shared Care?

Shared Care supports projects that advance coordination between family physicians and specialists. In Burnaby, our projects focus on fostering collaboration and addressing gaps in care.

This initiative is part of a province-wide partnership between Doctors of BC and the Government of BC. Visit Shared Care BC ↗︎ to learn more.

Get involved with Shared Care

Members can get involved by:

  • Proposing a new project when applications are open 
  • Leading the project team 
  • Become a project member 
  • Provide consultations 

Current Projects

Status: Project Phase

The project team aims to implement a localized, longitudinal, integrated and holistic approach to better support the transition of care for patients in Burnaby with Substance Use Disorder (SUD) from acute to primary and community care. The project also aims to strengthen the community response and address stigma to better care for community members with SUD.

Status: Project Phase

As part of a broader vision to develop an interconnected system in Burnaby within and across sectors, this project aims to promote health and wellbeing by extending access to supports that address the social determinants of health through the introduction of a social prescribing program. The project seeks to streamline referral pathways from Family Physicians and Hospitalists to appropriate community supports while simultaneously creating channels for community members to access the assistance they require, precisely when it is needed.

Learn About Social Prescribing

Status: Project Phase

Individuals who are not attached to a family physician or nurse practitioner have limited access to important preventative screening. This leads to delayed treatment and poorer health outcomes, including higher morbidity and mortality, resulting in increased health care costs. The proposed initiative will leverage existing resources, building partnerships, and developing knowledge-sharing opportunities, this initiative will work towards improving equitable access to preventative primary care.

Learn more about our patient-facing initiatives under this project on Burnaby PCN.

Status: Project Phase

This project aims to bridge the gap between FPs, their local community health nurses (CHNs), and their local Primary Care Network (PCN) Allied Health (AH) clinicians to support team-based care in the primary care environment for their shared patients.

Contact

Interested in getting involved? Contact sharedcare@burnabydivision.ca

Completed Projects

Through partnership-building, leveraging existing resources, and training and engagement opportunities, this project aims to better support Burnaby residents, with a focus on families with language barriers, to experience better communication with their medical providers by increasing access to and utilization of appropriate interpretation supports.

Explore Language Resources

The project goal was to develop, pilot, launch and disseminate the Mental Health Community Connectors (MHCC) approach to better integrate community, PCN and Mental Health (MH) care providers to support the mild-moderate MH needs of Burnaby residents. The aim of this initiative was to increase awareness of local supports, and provider confidence and satisfaction to support the MH of their patients/clients.

Project Outputs:

  • A community resource directory with local Burnaby resources
  • Burnaby Mental Health Community Connectors: Four-hour training for frontline community providers, and a one-hour training on how to use the Burnaby resource directory.
See Mental Health Resources

The project aimed to develop unique sets of resources and engagement activities for providers and patients to enhance patient-provider communication, improve the coordination of care, and increase patient and provider knowledge of medical and community supports.

Project Outputs:

  • About My Health: A form that summarizes patient’s health history and communication preferences.
  • My Healthcare Visit: A form that supports patients to better prepare for, communicate at, and reflect on a specific medical visit.
  • My Healthcare Visit Tracker: A form to help patients keep track of multiple medical visits.
  • Poster for medical offices with a QR code to download the forms above
  • Physician FAQ Handout on mental health and IDD
See Patient-Provider Resources

A consult service was piloted for Burnaby FPs/NPs to support access to pathologists and guided decision support for the diagnosis and treatment of patient hyponatremia (low sodium levels).

Project Outputs:

  • Hyponatremia Consult Service for Burnaby Providers (Pathways)
  • Common provider questions on lab processes
  • Common MOA questions on lab processes
  • Common patient questions on how to prepare for a lab visit (available in English, Arabic, Farsi, Simplified Chinese and Tigrinya)
  • Recorded DocTalks webinar with Burnaby Lab Physician
See Pathology Resources