Posted on: April 17, 2024
Last week, Island Health Leaders and representatives from Health Authority Medical Advisory Committee, our Nursing and Allied Health Advisory Committee, our Care Networks, and our Workplace Culture Council, met in Nanaimo. This was our biannual Leadership Summit to reflect back on 2023/24 and to transition to the 2024/25 organization-wide priorities, outcome goals and infrastructure requirements to create organization alignment.
This is an excerpt from President and CEO Kathy MacNeil's opening remarks that applies to each of us: We didn't choose health care as a career because it was going to be easy. We chose health care as a career because we wanted to make a difference in the lives of those who need help. It is important for us to always be reflecting – if something isn't working for us we need to think, 'Is there a better way? Is there a learning here we can take and try something else to improve?'
Reflecting on our work last year and where we are today, we are doing good work – yet there is much more that we need to do to advance us toward our Vision of excellent health and care for everyone, everywhere, every time. We have accomplished a great deal and are humble enough to know we are not yet where we need to be. So we continue – to learn, to step forward into new places, to focus on achieving outcomes and getting to results that people can see, feel and touch.
Learn more about Island Health's 2024/25 Annual Priorities here:
- 2024/25 Priorities & Outcome Goals with changes from the previous fiscal year highlighted. You will note that about 80% of what you see has been pulled through from 2023/24.
- A new Interactive Guide to help you go deeper to understand the “why" behind our 2024/25 Annual Priorities and Outcome Goals.
- Leaders can find more resources on the Priorities and Outcome Goals Collaboration Site to support them in sharing these 2024/25 priorities with their teams in the coming weeks, and tracking progress along the way.
“I'm confident that together we have everything we need within Island Health to get to results. We have the experience, knowledge, skills, perseverance, youthful energy, and innovation," said Kathy. “Even with the challenges and realities in healthcare today I firmly believe this to be true."
Click here for the Organization-wide Priorities, Outcome Goals & Infrastructure Requirements Translation PowerPoint.