Updates

Today, Healthcare Excellence Canada is welcoming primary care practices, organizations and multidisciplinary teams from across Canada to Partnering on Appropriate Virtual Care, a program that helps care providers and patients work together to ensure virtual care is provided in an appropriate, safe and equitable way. There are 41 teams making up a total of 135 sites in nine provinces participating in the program.

At Healthcare Excellence Canada, we work with partners from coast to coast to coast to catalyze knowledge-sharing, best practices and innovation. We support building the capacity of teams of healthcare staff in a wide variety of organizations to do their best possible work. Our goal – as we work with and for folks across the country – is to help shape a future where everyone in Canada has access to safe, high-quality care.

Healthcare Excellence Canada (HEC) is joining Health Quality BC in welcoming two new teams to the Bridge-to-Home BC and Yukon collaborative.

June is National Indigenous History Month. During this month, we encourage everyone to learn about and acknowledge not only the history, but the diversity, creativity and resilience of contemporary Indigenous (First Nations, Inuit and Métis) Peoples across Canada. When thinking about First Nations, Inuit, and Métis, there is often a tendency to believe we are one homogenous group. This is far from the truth.

People experiencing homelessness or vulnerable housing are inadequately served by traditional models of care, including palliative care. This population also has significantly worse health outcomes than their housed peers – up to five times more heart disease, four times more cancer, and a reduced life expectancy of approximately 30 years. First Nations, Inuit and Métis people are also eight times more likely to experience homelessness.

Today, Healthcare Excellence Canada is welcoming 237 long-term care homes in all 10 provinces to the Reimagining LTC: Enabling a Healthy Workforce to Provide Person-Centred Care (Reimagining LTC) program.

Healthcare Excellence Canada (HEC) is welcoming Denise McCuaig to its senior leadership team as Executive Director, Health Transformation and Capacity Building, effective March 26, 2023.

A new Healthcare Excellence Canada program will enable a healthy long-term care workforce to provide person-centred care and accelerate progress towards the new National Long-Term Care Services standard.

As 2022 comes to a close, we want to express our gratitude to partners like you who continue to respond to the evolving phases of the pandemic and strains facing health systems across the country.