Updates

What is the Health Workforce Innovation Challenge? This 12-month open innovation challenge is designed to support healthcare organizations and their teams in experimenting with innovative ideas and new solutions for the retention and support of their current workforce.

After welcoming 10 communities across seven provinces to participate in the first cohort of Improving Equity in Access to Palliative Care in 2022, Healthcare Excellence Canada (HEC) and the Canadian Partnership Against Cancer (the Partnership) are inviting additional communities to join the collaborative. Expressions of interest are due by September 15 and full applications are due by October 25, 2023.

Healthcare Excellence Canada is now accepting applications from teams across the country for a new program focused on improving equitable access to safe, high-quality team-based primary care in northern, rural and remote communities.

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.