Tag: Seniors Safety and Quality Improvement Program

Port Coquitlam seniors’ care home receives provincial funding for new equipment

Port Coquitlam’s Hawthorne Seniors Care Community is one of 88 care homes across British Columbia to receive funding to purchase new safety equipment, as part of the Seniors Safety and Quality Improvement Program (or SSQIP, pronounced “SKWIP”) initiative. Hawthorne Seniors Care Community received $35,576.88 of the total $2.6 million in provincial funding announced by Minister […]

SSQIP funding of $2.6 million approved for period 1

On August 10th, 2018 the B.C. Ministry of Health announced $2.6 million of funding in the first period of applications for the Seniors Safety and Quality Improvement Program (SSQIP). A SSQIP summary for the first period of applications is now published and can be reviewed here. Initially, BCCPA allocated up to $1.2 million of funding for the first period […]