2020 Awards recipients
Recipients of the 14th annual BC Health Care Awards were announced today in a pre-recorded video awards presentation. Six Gold Apple and seven Award of Merit recipients are being honoured. |
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Health Care Hero
Linda Warner
Clinical Research Manager, BC Children’s Hospital
Provincial Health Services Authority
Linda Warner is a champion and advocate for those in need in her own community and abroad. A humanitarian at heart, Linda believes in effective health care for everyone, everywhere. In addition to her work in BC, she has volunteered with charities in marginalized communities devastated by destruction and poverty, including Dominican Republic, Mexico, Haiti and Tanzania. Her crowning achievements include volunteering as a pediatric nurse in Haiti with Rose Charities, a Canadian charity helping people overcome poverty through education, community support and health care, and working to improve growth and development among children, especially with regards to improved immune systems, as Clinical Research Coordinator for the national CHILD Study.
Outstanding Health Care Volunteer *NEW category*
Joe Wittkofski
Volunteer, Nanaimo Travellers Lodge Society o/a Eden Gardens
Island Health
Joe Wittkofski is a retired photographer/videographer who has captured the hearts of Eden Gardens residents and their family members for the past five years by volunteering his talents to brighten up and the care home and record special events that can then be shared with loved ones who are not always able to attend in-person. His ‘joie de vivre,’ sense of adventure and spontaneous nature has captured many hearts and smiles, and enriched the lives of residents, resulting in laughter, joy and happier days at the care home.
Dianna Mah-Jones Award of Excellence in Person-Centred Care
Scholar in Residence Program of Research: Mobilizing Person-Centred Care and Patient-Oriented Research in Mental Health and Substance Use
Island Health
Island Health’s Scholar in Residence (SIR) program is building the organization’s research capacity by engaging patients as partners to answer the health care questions that matter to them, with the broader aim of improving health systems. With overdose deaths at crisis levels across the province, the SIR program team are working with people with lived experience to learn how best to reduce stigma so people feel safer and more willing to access care and services when they need it the most.
Top Innovation
Open Heart Surgery Surgical Site Infection Program (OHS SSI)
Island Health
Workplace Health Innovation
Mindfulness for Psychological Health study
Fraser Health
Collaborative Solutions
'One' System of ECLS Care – Partnering To Save Lives in BC
Vancouver Coastal Health
Award of Merit
Health Care Hero
Dr. Richard Merchant
Royal Columbian Hospital, Fraser Health
Suzanne Lehbauer
Executive Director
Castlegar Hospice Society, Interior Health
Outstanding Health Care Volunteer
Doug Morris
Leadership Volunteer, Medical Imaging
Victoria General Hospital, Island Health
Dianna Mah-Jones Award of Excellence in Person-Centred Care
Intensive Care Unit Patient & Family Advisory Council
Royal Inland Hospital, Interior Health
Top Innovation
Emergency Relocation and Receiving Guide
Northern Health
Workplace Health Innovation
Investigation into the Cleaning Methods of Smartphones and Wearables from Infectious Contamination in a Patient Care Environment (I-SWIPE)
Royal Jubilee Hospital, Island Health
Collaborative Solutions
Emergency Network - Model of Care
Fraser Health
Since the inauguration of the awards in 2007, 152 Gold Apples and 101 Awards of Merit have been presented to deserving BC health care employees.
BC Health Care Awards recipients represent the best in BC health care. They are people who are truly making a difference for our province’s patients and health system.
Past Recipients