Updates

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

Angel Arnaout is an independent researcher who participated in the Commonwealth Fund’s Harkness Fellowship in Health Care Policy and Practice Innovations. Although HEC supports the recruitment of fellows from Canada for this program, the views expressed herein do not necessarily represent the HEC’s views, or our funder, Health Canada.

Everyone wants and deserves safe care. Yet with health systems under strain, risks of unintended harm can grow. A focus on patient safety – which goes hand-in-hand with the safety of people working in healthcare – is more important than ever.

Our volunteer Board of Directors is a diverse group of leaders who are passionate about improving healthcare, with – and for – everyone in Canada.