SPARK Conversations
What does it take to build better healthcare systems that truly work for every child in Canada? SPARK Conversations is Children's Healthcare Canada's podcast series bringing together the clinicians, researchers, policymakers, and families who are shaping the future of children's healthcare to explore what's working, what's possible, and what comes next. This is where the conversation starts.
SPARK Conversations
Raising Hope from the Ground Up: Building children's healthcare in Canada
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During this episode we learn of a decades-long journey to bring a children’s hospital to a province that had none - but the story is about so much more than building a hospital. It is about Canadian health system improvement for children and families. It involves:
- Developing and maintaining partnerships with like-minded organizations locally and across the country
- Engagement with government and health system leaders
- Open, transparent, tailored communications
- Listening deeply to and serving your constituents, whoever they may be
- The use of technology for, for example, knowledge sharing and donor management
- The role of philanthropy as catalysts to child health system change
Success enables broader health system improvement, lessons learned for other health system leaders, attracting varied and specialists locally provinces to ensure that children and their families receive quality, specialized pediatric care (as children are not just little adults).
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