Nomination Criteria
Community Innovation
Has the nominated community:
- Developed or adapted a community-wide solution to address local healthcare needs?
- Created or enhanced initiatives to address social determinant of health, directly improving local patient and community health outcomes or access to care?
Inclusive Collaboration
Has the nominated community:
- Applied a collaborative, partnership-based approach to addres local healthcare issue(s)?
- Actively engaged with a diverse range of local, regional and/or provincial agencies, organizations, healthcare providers, community members, and patients to co-create solutions?
*Please provide a list of people/organizations engaged reflecting diverse voices and perspectives
Primary and Integrated Care
Do local rural health care providers and/or administrators:
- Focused on establishing, strengthening, or expanding integrated primary healthcare services accessible to all community members?
- Support team-based, interdisciplinary model of healthcare service delivery that includes allied health, mental health, and social support?
*Please attach a list of the different providers and allied support teams working to provide primary care supports in the community.
Rural Generalism
Do local rural health care providers and/or administrators in the nominated community:
- Step in to provide secondary and/or tertiary care when necessary, addressing transport barriers and unique holistic rural healthcare considerations?
- Collaborate with specialists across rural, regional and urban areas to provide local delivery of specialist services/telehealth visits allowing for ‘closer-to-home’ care when appropriate?
The winner of the Rural BC Community award will receive a plaque and a cash prize for a community celebration.
