-RESOSANTE

Consolidation of Ties To Communities
and Health Care Professionals

RésoSanté continues to promote contact between health professionals who
speak French and the Francophone population. As such, it facilitated thematic
workshops in Maillardville, Prince George, Surrey and Victoria and increased its
efforts to reach new advertisers in the Répertoire des professionnels de la santé
[Health Professionals’ Directory]. This tool saw extraordinary growth this year,
with the number of people listed increasing to more than 350 professionals.
The directory is available in hard copy, electronic format or as a search tool
(by profession and by region) on the RésoSanté website.

Through its partnerships and collaborative work at the national, provincial
and regional levels, RésoSanté is active in the development of the French
language health care movement in Canada.

This year, RésoSanté attended the Rendez-vous santé en francais [French
Language Health Rendez-vous] in Charlottetown in June 2010. This meet-

ing, attended by 17 Francophone networks in Canada, is a forum for sharing
knowledge and for reporting on French language health care in the country.

DID YOU KNOW:

° To try to better reach the Francophone population, a video on menopause
was made available online on the RésoSanté website (www.resosante.ca).

e Research indicates that good communications improves the quality of health
services, both for the consumer and for the health care system.

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RésoSanté worked

with La Boussole to
implement their new medical
examination program, and
with the Educacentre College
to launch language training
and cultural adaptation work-
shops, including the online
course “Caring for patients

in French.”

Annual visit by Société
Santé en francais and
Health Canada.