Walk a Day in my Shoes: a WA Health Excellence Award Finalist28 October 2019At East Metropolitan Health Service (EMHS) we are committed to delivering health care that exemplifies our organisational values of kindness, respect and collaboration. The Walk a Day in My Shoes (WaDiMS) program is helping us to ensure our patients and consumers are treated with kindness, are welcomed as a partner in their healthcare journey and our staff are appropriately trained to deliver compassionate care. Read about how this body of work is helping us to ensure we maintain a high standard of communication with our patients, and our colleagues, to ensure we show empathy, compassion, patience and respect to every individual in our community. Good communication between our patients and colleagues is a priority area for EMHS and we all have a responsibility to see and treat everyone as we would wish to be treated; to show empathy, compassion, patience and respect. After wide consultation with consumer and community groups, advocacy agencies, clinical and support staff that allowed u...