Updates

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.

According to data recently released by the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI), during 1 in 17 hospital stays in Canada in 2021-22, people experienced unintended harm that evidence-informed approaches can help to prevent. That’s about 140,000 out of 2.4 million hospital stays.

Developing these frameworks is essential for good, shared decision-making among individual clinicians, their teams and their patients, and to help inform policy and regulatory progress.

Statement from Jennifer Zelmer, President and CEO of Healthcare Excellence Canada, about new and important hospital harm data released today from the Canadian Institute for Health Information