What we do, together
We promise to work with you to deliver measurable, widespread and lasting improvement in patient safety and all the dimensions of healthcare excellence. As we develop a new strategy for Healthcare Excellence Canada, we look forward to continuing to talk to people across the country to explore their priorities and how we can work together.
In the meantime, many familiar CPSI and CFHI programs will continue in 2021 and 2022 as new programs are rolled out. Across our work, we will seek to emphasize equity and inclusion, patient, family and caregiver partnership, as well as supporting the people who work in healthcare.
Here are some of the ways we can work together this year:
- Finding and promoting innovators and innovations: Help us scout innovations that can move the dial on quality and safety.
- Growing proven innovations and safety interventions: Our programs, webinars and knowledge products will help you put the best evidence and practices into action, measure the difference it makes and then build on your success.
- Building capabilities: Fellowships, courses and programs for leaders and teams at all levels will build your skills and knowledge enabling improvement in your organization and the healthcare system.
- Catalyzing policy change: Through policy guidance and other products and opportunities we can work together to shape the future of patient safety and quality.
- Bringing people together: Partnerships, networks, alliances – whatever you want to call them – we convene people to share, learn and implement better ways of working.
- Leading campaigns: Together we can increase awareness of patient safety and approaches that promote improvement in safety and quality.
Join our latest programs and opportunities below, or visit CFHI's and CPSI’s websites for other tools and resources.
Learning Together: Emergency Shelters and Substance Use Facilities
The COVID-19 pandemic has increased the urgency to share learning across care settings, in real time. The need to move quickly to improve support for underserved people, and the people who care for them, is especially critical as existing gaps in health and care widen.
Essential Together
We can help organizations across health and care settings to reintegrate, welcome and support essential care partners as part of care teams during COVID-19 and beyond. Learning bundles with tools and resources are available and joining the program provides access to peer learning and coaching.
Responding to COVID-19
Together with other pan-Canadian health organizations, we have contributed resources, expertise and networks to support collective action on COVID-19. Join us in supporting pandemic preparedness and response in long term care, the safe reintegration of essential care partners into healthcare facilities, safe virtual care and more.
Let’s get started. Together!
Healthcare Excellence Canada was born of a belief that everyone in Canada deserves excellent healthcare. And we’re not there yet.
So, as we come together, we need people and organizations – from every community, right across the country – to raise their voices and join us.
Community Dementia Care and Support
People living with dementia and their care partners want to receive care closer to home. Innovations can help. Come and join our webinar series to learn about new ideas that can improve early diagnosis and support in the community. Take the chance to ask questions of leading experts.
LTC+: Acting on pandemic learning together
Join hundreds of long-term care and retirement homes across the country strengthening their pandemic preparedness and response though funding, coaching, virtual learning and peer-to-peer support.
Safely Re-entering Long-Term Care Homes During COVID-19
A Resource for Essential Care Partners
Hand Hygiene Fact Sheets
Hand Hygiene Resources for Healthcare Providers, Patients and Families
Clean Your Hands Day
Whether you’re a member of the public, patient, visitor, essential care partner, provider or work in a healthcare setting, maintaining good hand and respiratory hygiene are very important personal practices that help reduce the risk of infection or spreading infection to others.
Implementation Science Teams – Strengthening Pandemic Preparedness in Long-Term Care
The COVID-19 pandemic has profoundly impacted the health and care of older adults, with particularly devastating consequences for residents in long-term care (LTC) and retirement homes across Canada.
COVID-19 Vaccine Preparedness Resources for Long-term Care and Retirement Homes
These resources have been curated with immunization experts from across the country, including Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC), Solutions for Kids in Pain and #SeePainMoreClearly.
Plan Alzheimer du Québec : partager l’expérience de son implantation pour renforcer les soins primaires
The accessibility and quality of the care provided to people living with dementia and their families represents a major challenge for health and social services systems due to the complexity of the disease, the growing number of people affected, and the advent of new therapies requiring the use of biomarkers.
About the Canadian Patient Safety Institute
Established by Health Canada in 2003, CPSI worked with governments, health organizations, leaders, patients and healthcare providers to inspire extraordinary improvement in patient safety and quality. As we start a new chapter as Healthcare Excellence Canada, tools and resources remain available on the CPSI website.
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About the Canadian Foundation for Healthcare Improvement
Originally created as the Canadian Health Services Research Foundation in 1996, the organization evolved to embrace a new challenge and changed its name in 2012. The Canadian Foundation for Healthcare Improvement worked shoulder-to-shoulder with partners to accelerate the identification, spread and scale of proven healthcare innovations that sustain improvements in patient experience, health, work life of healthcare providers and value-for-money. As we enter a new chapter as Healthcare Excellence Canada, tools and resources remain available on the CFHI website.