Health Authority Policies

Health Authority policies may include:

  • Adult abuse and neglect policy
  • Workplace violence prevention policy
  • Domestic violence policy for patients
  • Sexual assault policy
  • Care facility licensing policy
  • Consent and Substitute Consent
  • Risk Assessment tool
  • Ethical Decision Making Framework

Click on the Designated Agency below to review policies specific to that organization.

These are policies pertaining to Vancouver Coastal Health.

Adult Protection: Abuse, Neglect or Self-Neglect of Vulnerable Adults

These are policies pertaining to Providence Health care.

Advance Care Planning

Consent to Health Care

Options for Care

Information Privacy and Confidentiality

Release of Information and Belongings to Law Enforcement

Abuse Policy

Violence Prevention in the Workplace

Working Alone

These are policies pertaining to Fraser Health.

  1. Violence Prevention Policy
  2. Medical Orders for Scope of Treatment and Advance Care Planning
  3. Consent for Health Care Policy

All Fraser Health Policies listed above are available by cutting and pasting the URL below into the search function in the FH Pulse:

http://fhpulse/CLINICAL_RESOURCES/CLINICAL_POLICY_OFFICE/Pages/policies.aspx _blank

List of Fraser Health Clinical Decision Support Tools

  1. Resident Abuse and Neglect: Residential Care – Clinical Policy
  2. Risk Assessment – Identifying Tolerable and Intolerable Risk Factors and Informing Decision Making Ability – Clinical Practice Guideline
  3. Sexual and Physical Abuse: Adolescent and Adult – Emergency Forensic Nurse Examination – Clinical Practice Guideline

All Fraser Health Clinical Decision Support Tools listed above are available by cutting and pasting the URL below into the search function in the FH Pulse:

http://fhpulse/CLINICAL_RESOURCES/CLINICAL_POLICY_OFFICE/Pages/Clinical%20Decision%20Support%20Tools%20(CDSTs).aspx _blank

These are the policies pertaining to Interior Health. For information, please contact Interior Health’s adult guardianship team at IHadultguardianship@interiorhealth.ca

For more information, please contact Melinda Allison at adultprotection@northernhealth.ca

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