Purpose and Scope

Royal Columbian Hospital Foundation’s Quality Improvement Project Grant is intended to support RCH employees with ideas that align with the Foundation’s areas of interest and do one of the following:

• Improve the patient comfort and care and promote optimal health outcomes.
• Conduct research or adopt innovative techniques or tools
• Adopt new equipment or technology
• Enhance workforce engagement
• Support regional health leadership

Application Criteria

Suitable projects will:

• Be evidence-based
• Have measurable outcomes

Applications must

• Describe the problem
• Demonstrate the proposed solution
• Demonstrate how success will be measured
• Propose a budget 
• List team members, their discipline and department/area of work 
• Be endorsed by departmental clinical and administrative leads

QI Committee:

• Applications will be reviewed by a committee including:
• President and CEO, RCH Foundation (or designate)
• Foundation Board representative
• Two to five RCH clinical or administrative representatives

Appointment to the committee will be made by the CEO.  All members of the committee agree to and adhere to the Foundation’s Conflict of Interest and Privacy Policies.

Decisions will be made by consensus; members are to declare conflict of interests where applicable and must remove themselves from discussion and voting when a conflict arises. 

Final funding decisions will be made by the Foundation CEO on the advice of the committee. 

Application review:

• Anyone working at Royal Columbian Hospital is eligible to apply.
• Maximum award for a project is $25,000.
• Applications will be reviewed as they are received and until funds are exhausted in a given fiscal year.