In April, RNAO honoured its newest cohort of BPSOs in long-term care representing 18 nursing homes, and one organization in Jamaica.
The Ontario organizations are: Grove Park Home; Tilbury Manor; The Perley and Rideau Veterans’ Health Centre; William A. George Extended Care Facility; the Regional Municipality of Halton and its homes: Allendale, Post Inn Village, and Creek Way Village; Woodingford Lodge and its homes: Ingersoll, Woodstock, and Tillsonburg; and the Regional Municipality of Niagara and its homes: Linhaven, Gilmore Lodge, Northland Pointe, Deer Park Villa, Upper Canada Lodge, Woodlands of Sunset, Meadows of Dorchester, and Douglas H. Rapelje Lodge.
The international BPSO is: University Hospital of the West Indies in Jamaica. The south Australian branch of the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation renewed its commitment as a BPSO.