Updates

Safety is fundamental to excellent healthcare. We all expect, and deserve, safe care.

Learn how patient safety starts with healthcare workers and how this directly connects with the health and safety of their patients.

Jennifer Symon is a registered nurse whose passion for family presence at patient bedside grew after caring for her husband, as he battled a rare disease in hospital. Jennifer now works with the Alberta Health Services (AHS) Engagement and Patient Experience department.

At Healthcare Excellence Canada, we’ve been putting together resources for dealing with online harassment (below) that we hope will be useful for those affected and their allies. We hope that you haven’t experienced this problem personally, but if you have – or you know someone who has – we hope that you’ll find useful tools and advice in this collection.

As part of this year’s Digital Health Week, we’re excited to announce the teams participating in the Virtual Care Together design collaborative.

The Thunderbird Partnership Foundation is a non-profit organization and respected as a leader in First Nations in addressing substance use issues and mental health. We are committed to working with First Nations to further the capacity of communities to address substance use and mental health issues through promotion of a holistic approach to healing and wellness that values culture, respect, collaboration, community, and compassion. One of our top priorities is developing a continuum of care that would be available to all First Nations people in Canada.

Today we’re launching our strategy for 2021-26 – to help us get closer to where we want to be.

Today we’re announcing the new Chair and Vice-Chair of Healthcare Excellence Canada’s Board of Directors, as well as five new Directors.

My sense of time has shifted in the past year. I’ve divided things up into the “before-times,” “pre-pandemic,” the “between-times” where we find ourselves now, and the “after-times” to come when we’ll have put the between times behind us.