Right Care Challenge
Right Care Challenge supports health and social care organizations to launch or enhance initiatives that ensure patients receive the right care, at the right time, in the right place—all while helping reduce avoidable emergency department visits.
Is your organization doing innovative work to expand access to primary and community care while easing pressure on emergency departments? If so, Healthcare Excellence Canada wants to celebrate your impact, help you scale these efforts and share valuable insights that inspire others to do the same.
How it works
Participation in the Right Care Challenge is easy and guided by your interests and capacity. After registering, teams can apply for monetary awards that recognize their efforts to address key issues like access to primary care, workforce transformation, or new care models.
Apply for as many awards as you like—the sooner you register, the more opportunities you’ll have. No matter what you choose, you'll gain access to virtual learning, coaching and networking opportunities focused on issues that matter to you.
Who should register?
Teams working on projects in the following key areas are encouraged to apply:
- Expanded primary care access: Including through team-based models, optimized scheduling practices, and other innovations.
- Workforce transformation efforts: Expanding scopes of practice, reducing administrative burden, and improving licensing pathways.
- Integrated and innovative care models: Approaches such as virtual care and connected medicine that better connect primary, urgent, and emergency care.
- Community health promotion: Preventing diseases and promoting health where people live.
The Right Care Challenge is open to teams across the country from diverse geographies (i.e. rural, remote, urban) and practice settings, such as:
- Long-term care, hospitals, and primary care.
- Home and community care, mental health, and addictions services.
- Healthcare associations and organizations supporting system-wide improvements.
- First Nations, Inuit, and Métis health service delivery organizations.
- Health regions, authorities, and provincial/territorial governments.
Featured content
Live Q&A: Right Care Challenge and Enhancing Integrated Care
Join this informational session to learn more about eligibility, funding and awards, timelines, deliverables and what support is available to help you succeed.
Blog: How the Right Care Challenge helps teams drive change in health and social care
Improving health and social care isn’t easy — but you don’t have to do it alone. Whether you’ve got an idea or are already working to improve health and social care in your community, the Right Care Challenge can help you.
Digging for Dinosaurs: Towards Better, Safer Care
Here’s a glimpse of what you can expect in the Right Care Challenge. This activity in the Health Workforce Innovation Challenge encouraged curiosity and reflection on work practices.
Enhancing Integrated Care
Open to organizations working to strengthen integrated team-based care, including virtual care.
Primary Care Access Improvement
Offers team-based primary care organizations opportunities to create efficiencies and optimize team functioning so they can provide timely access to care.
Paramedics and Social Prescribing
Supports paramedic teams to use social prescribing to connect clients with local community services.
The Graham Boeckh Foundation is a private foundation that aims to significantly improve the lives of people living with, or at risk of, mental illness by initiating, funding and facilitating a suite of strategic initiatives. Integrated Youth Services are provided across the country and through their work are expanding care to improve access and ease pressures on emergency departments while providing the right care, at the right time and in the right place.
Change happens in partnership
Supporting organizations across Canada are helping drive meaningful progress as part of Care Forward.
Change happens in partnership
Supporting organizations across Canada are helping drive meaningful progress as part of Care Forward.
Care Forward
Join a growing pan-Canadian movement where innovative strategies and shared knowledge are transforming care for over a million people across Canada.
Care Forward
Join a growing pan-Canadian movement where innovative strategies and shared knowledge are transforming care for over a million people across Canada.
