Sioux Lookout Meno Ya Win Health Centre (SLMHC) is a pre-designate Best Practice Spotlight Organization® (BPSO®) in Sioux Lookout, a town in Northwestern Ontario. The service area is remote, isolated and encompasses 385,000 square kilometres, with a population that is 85 per cent First Nations. Learn more how this site adapted guidelines to their local context in this case study. 

Toronto Public Health – a Best Practice Spotlight Organization® (BPSO®) - has adapted several RNAO best practice guidelines (BPGs) to align with a population health approach. 

Care practices were revised using adapted evidence-based best practice guidelines in an acute care facility in Beijing, China. 

Unity Health Toronto - St. Michael’s Hospital, a Best Practice Spotlight Organization® (BPSO®) has embedded evidence-based practices into its culture and daily work processes as part of its corporate strategy. 

DongZhiMen Hospital and Beijing University of Chinese Medicine (BUCM) School of Nursing are international BPSOs in Beijing, China. Staff at the sites identified barriers to the use of evidence in practice including heavy workloads, cultural differences and reluctant attitudes about using evidence to inform practice.   

Spectrum Health Care, a Best Practice Spotlight Organization® (BPSO®) and home health organization, evaluated care outcomes after implementing the Person- and Family-Centred best practice guideline (BPG). 

The Region of Peel, a Best Practice Spotlight Organization® (BPSO®), has sustained the implementation of the Assessment and Management of Pain best practice guideline (BPG) for almost a decade. 

Staff at the Birchmount and General site locations of Scarborough Health Network in Toronto, Ontario, Canada are committed to providing excellence in clinical practice. In addition to implementing best practice guidelines focused on clinical care, they have also address healthy workplace environment issues including focusing on anti-bullying. Learn more in this case study.  

The urgent need to end systemic racism gained international traction following the death of George Floyd. Learn more about how an urgent need for action fosters social movement action in this example. 

The urgent need to transform long-term care (LTC) in Ontario gained broad support in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic.  Read more in this case study.