Does your health or social care team want to improve access to care? What if you had funding, expert support, practical tools, and a network of peers to help you get there?
That’s exactly what teams across the country are doing through HEC’s Right Care Challenge and Enhancing Integrated Care. And your team can be part of it too.
Right Care Challenge and Enhancing Integrated Care are open for registration until October 31, 2025. Both programs support health and social care delivery teams in improving access to care, but they do so in different ways.
Here’s a look at three key distinctions: commitment, support, and innovation focus - to help you decide which program best aligns with your team’s goals.
What’s the commitment?
Right Care Challenge is great if your team wants to test ideas without a big commitment. It’s flexible and designed to help you start and grow at your own pace. There’s no long application - just jump in, try things out, and adjust as you go.
Enhancing Integrated Care is a stronger fit if your team is already running integrated, team-based initiatives and wants to deepen that work. With a more structured approach, it’s designed for organizations ready to take on system-level change. If you’re building connections across providers and communities, this program gives you the framework and support to scale.
How will we support you?
Both programs give you access to expert coaches, practical tools, and peer networks - but the way funding works is a little different.
With Right Care Challenge, your team can access several awards, with one of the largest at $10,000. You’ll also have access to optional supports like webinars and tools, making it easy to test, adapt, and grow without the complexity of a grant process.
Enhancing Integrated Care provides up to $10,000 in seed funding, plus hands-on coaching to help you put proven strategies into practice. It’s especially valuable if your team is ready to scale an integrated care model and wants structured support along the way.
What can we help you to do?
While both programs aim to improve access to care, they focus on different types of innovations.
Right Care Challenge supports a wide range of ideas from reimagining care models to optimizing workflows or addressing workforce challenges. The only requirement is that projects must ultimately improve access to care and ease pressure on emergency departments. Beyond that, teams can explore diverse solutions.
Enhancing Integrated Care has a more defined scope: strengthening integrated, team-based care. This includes initiatives that connect services across providers, improve coordination, or expand virtual care. For teams already advancing integrated care models, this program provides targeted resources to refine and scale those efforts.
Which approach is right for your team?
Choosing between Right Care Challenge and Enhancing Integrated Care depends on where you are in your journey and the kind of support you need.
If you want flexibility to test new ideas with minimal barriers, Right Care Challenge may be the best fit. If you’re already advancing integrated care and need seed funding plus tailored support, Enhancing Integrated Care could be the way forward.
And the answer might not have to be one or the other – some teams may be eligible for both.
Join us: register/apply by October 31, 2025
Join today to make a real difference in improving care. Register for Right Care Challenge and/or apply to Enhancing Integrated Care by October 31, 2025.
Questions? application-demande@hec-esc.ca
“I'm excited for the support from HEC, we've been working on this project for two years with hurdles along the way. I’m also looking forward to the coaching and learning opportunities from others across the country.” - Danielle Kent, Director of Research, Loch Lomond Villa. (Enhancing Integrated Care Initiative: Establishing a multi-specialty interprofessional team memory clinic in the Greater Saint John region in New Brunswick)
