🤝 Isolated Medical Provider Aftercare Team (IMPACT): This program offers confidential peer-to-peer support to rural physicians and nurses in remote nursing stations in British Columbia who have experienced a potentially challenging incident in the course of their work.
Learn more: rccbc.ca/impact

🧘 Mindfulness in Medicine provides rural healthcare providers with tools to manage stress, improve emotional regulation, and cultivate resilience through mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) training, with supportive learning environments. Learn more:

🌱 Thriving Project: This initiative supports and enhances wellness by fostering connections among healthcare providers and building a community of practice they can draw upon for learning, support, solace, and inspiration.
Learn more: rccbc.ca/thriving-pro...

⁠☑️Helps prevent closures and diversions
☑️Helps support primary care because family physicians are not overburdened covering hospital shifts and can focus on their family practice clinics
☑️Supports physician retention by avoiding back-to-back shifts so that physicians can get some much-needed rest

VERRa’s team of virtual Emergency Medicine physicians step in during hospital physician staffing shortages, and the team works with rural RNs to provide overnight coverage at small rural hospitals.⁠
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The program helps in a number of ways:⁠