PMH seeks input on ambulance services
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This article was published 15/01/2020 (2336 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
Have you or a family member had the misfortune of needing an ambulance ride to the hospital?
If so, Prairie Mountain Health would like to hear from you during a series of focus groups starting this month in Brandon.
“Health standards across Canada, and certainly internationally, are promoting and pointing to the importance and the relevance of having increased patient and family engagement in all levels of delivering health care,” said Callum Melvin, director of PMH Emergency Response Services, “right from front-line engagement in the actual care that they’re receiving all the way up to policy development and kind of system design.”
The patient/family focus groups will gather to talk about communication between patients, families and paramedics during the delivery of care as well as discuss what “quality” means to patients, and what is most important to them.
The first focus group will be held in Brandon on Tuesday at the Brandon Fire and Emergency Services hall, followed by Killarney on Jan. 28, Swan River on Feb. 5 and Dauphin on Feb. 6.
Melvin said they are hoping to get between six and 10 participants in each focus group.
EMS leadership will conduct the meetings with an agenda that puts forth questions and topics for discussion, he said.
“We have done some targeted reaching out to certain stakeholders and community groups,” Melvin said, adding the focus groups were not precipitated by any problems or concerns regarding the EMS service.
“It’s just more just trying to kind of trying to move forward as an organization, reach for those high standards and increase our patient and family engagement in our design and system-building process because we felt that there were opportunities to increase that and receive more feedback at the early stages from the users of the system,” he said.
In November, the Manitoba government announced it had invested $10 million to purchase 65 replacement ambulances to modernize the province’s fleet, with PMH to receive 27 of those ambulances.
The new ambulances feature enhanced lighting, additional working space for paramedics to have better movement and access to patients and increased secure storage compartments for medical equipment.
Melvin said they haven’t received all of the new ambulances yet, “but we have been receiving them steadily over the last number of weeks and months.”
Those interested in participating in a focus group can send an email to patientpartner@pmh-mb.ca or call toll-free 1-877-279-7858.
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