For the past year, health systems around the world have been under severe strain combating a deadly virus to save lives. Admirably, despite the pandemic, the important work of implementing BPGs to advance evidence-based care has continued at home and abroad. RNAO’s Best Practice Spotlight Organization (BPSO) program welcomed many new organizations into the fold. Here are a few international examples. 

Ministry of Health of Chile (MINSAL)

The Ministry of Health of Chile (MINSAL) has been an international BPSO Host since December 2017. This spring, it welcomed 15 new public hospitals to its program. For MINSAL, the BPSO program is a solution at all times, and its BPSO work has continued at full force during this pandemic.

In 2017, MINSAL launched its program as BPSO host with seven hospitals in various regions across Chile. In March 2021, it chose 15 additional hospitals to join, with more to come next year. Its impressive work is led by six BPSO co-ordinators employed by MINSAL who work full time with the hospitals. RNAO and MINSAL hosted a virtual orientation session in March, stretched over four days. The training session prepared 350 champions to work with MINSAL. Chile’s Minister of Health, Dr. Enrique Paris Mancilla, and RNAO CEO Dr. Doris Grinspun, founder and visionary of the BPG and BPSO programs, welcomed participants.