The positive movement has begun at BVIHSA! Carty-Baptiste
CEO of the BVIHSA, Mrs Darlene Carty Baptiste said the clinic was offered to assist in developing heightened awareness, while providing professional encouragement and promoting the Integrative Care Model; discussing the physiological, psychological, social, and spiritual aspect of patient care.
The workshop, titled the Caribbean Journey of Hope Clinic, also promotes the theme of therapeutic hope in care and crisis response.
“Now is the time to change,” the CEO said, “and the positive movement has begun at the BVIHSA, as we work towards excellence.”
Mrs Carty-Baptiste described the workshop as an important step, and expressed her excitement about embracing change with renewed strength, energy and hope in placing patient needs at the centre of the organisation’s care.
“From the moment our patients walk or are carried through our doors,” the CEO said, “they must know that they are valued, and we must treat them with the respect and compassion as stated and promised in our Service Charter and our Patients’ Bill of Rights and Responsibilities.”
According to the CEO, there should not just be talk about enhancing quality and delivery of the BVIHSA’s services. “We must strengthen our efforts and effectively deliver client-centred healthcare promised in our mission,” she noted.
Carty-Baptiste also reflected on the organisation’s partnership with HIMAHealth for specialist services to assist this movement and stated that the organisation welcomed the new partnership equally.
“I am proud that this platform is provided for us to speak on sensitive issues like death and dying,” the CEO stated.
“Although this is an inevitable part of our work here,” she continued, “it is never an easy task and I look forward to the shared experiences and knowledge, as I intend to, and encourage all of you to take advantage of this free opportunity and reap every benefit possible.”
Speaking during a segment titled ‘Circle of Care – Integrated Model’, Founder and President of Covenant Point Institute, Isaac J. Schaeffer, said the idea of integration is nothing new in medicine.
“In medical science,” he noted, “integration has always taken place and in counselling, we’re moving towards this idea of integrated spirituality.” Schaeffer noted that this was important because it was recognised that sometimes people will not recover until you address the other issues.
Schaeffer also offered several anecdotes and scenarios that could lead to the possibility of psychological counselling during his presentation.
He suggested that for some reason in the Caribbean, persons think that psychiatrists are doing the devil’s work and persons requiring psychological treatment or psychiatry have to be crazy.
Disputing this, he said that is not the case, “you don’t have to be crazy, nuts… whatever to go to see a psychiatrist. The best of us need psychiatrists.”
The Caribbean Journey of Hope clinic is a two day professional and organizational development conference for clinicians, clergy, and counsellors. The clinic focuses on integrative care to patients in medical crisis.
The workshop was attended by a number of clergymen and counsellors as well as medical practitioners around the Territory.
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18 Responses to “The positive movement has begun at BVIHSA! Carty-Baptiste”
The gh.....o diva seems to be on a public relations offensive but in the BVI we call that talk, talk talk talk talk...and is even worst when we are not in the talking season
All the while the darn Ghetto Diva still there after cussing up the HIMA doctor and all her other abuses and even the Government can't get she fire yet. Can't even begin to speak about Pop I.
What a waste.
streeeups!
The Government sitting back like Pontius Pilate while those three and their sidekicks destroy the public health system.
She was not arrested. She was the Commissioner of Health in St. Thomas. It was her cous...Amos Carty who was the COO (Chief Operating Officer) then later CEO of the St. Thomas HOSPITAL that was arrested and will be on trial again this year.
The Department of Health and Schneider Regional Medical Center (HOSPITAL) are two different entities all together. The Schneider Hospital is run by a BOARD. The Department of Health is a government department.