Patient & Family Care Advisory Council

Our Purpose

Serves as an advisory resource to administration and staff.
Promotes improved relationships between patients, families, and hospital staff.
Provides a vehicle for communication between patients, families, and staff.
Provides a venue for patients and families to provide input into policy and program development.
Provides an opportunity for patients and families to review recommendations referred to the council by staff or administration.
Provides an opportunity for patients and families to actively participate in the development of new facilities and programs.
Actively helps implement changes.
Collaborates as partners with staff, physicians, and administration in the planning and operation of specific programs.
Provides opportunities for staff to listen to their patients and families.
Provides a safe venue for patients and families to provide input in a setting where they are receiving care.

Leads to increased understanding and cooperation between patients, families and staff.
Results in more efficient planning to ensure that services meet consumer’s needs and priorities.
Promotes respectful, effective partnerships between patients and families and hospital professionals.
Offers a forum for developing creative, cost-effective solutions to problems and challenges faced by the hospital.
Supplies a link between the program, its surrounding community, and community groups.

All meetings are held at Noon in the Hospital – Conference Room A – across from Hospital Cafeteria