Updates

Healthcare Excellence Canada and the Canadian Institute for Health Information have identified four areas for closer strategic alliance, captured in a recently signed letter of intent.

Healthcare Excellence Canada’s newest collaborative, Enabling Aging in Place, is six months old. Here’s a look at how participating teams are moving from planning to implementation in their community-based approaches to aging well at home.

Nancy Quattrocchi, outgoing Vice-President, Corporate Services at Healthcare Excellence Canada, reflects on what she’s led and learned during her career here.

Save the date! Canadian Patient Safety Week (CPSW) returns October 28 to November 1, 2024 and our theme is What comes to mind when you think about healthcare harm? Let's broaden our understanding together.

Disparities in health equity play a significant role in shaping health outcomes in Canada. This is especially true for individuals experiencing homelessness and precarious housing in Canada. Palliative care, a comprehensive approach that considers the whole person and facilitates quality-of-life care for individuals with serious life-limiting illnesses, is vital in these spaces. Unfortunately, people who experience homelessness often lack equitable access to palliative care.

Christine LaRocque will step into the newly created position of Vice-President, Organizational Performance and Corporate Services. HEC also welcomes Sutton Eaves as our new Executive Director, Communications and Marketing.

Canadian Patient Safety Week (CPSW) comes once a year, each autumn, to help improve patient safety across the country. If you work in healthcare, though, you know lasting change is not something that can be accomplished in just a few days. It requires ongoing effort—not to mention effective communication and teamwork.

Healthcare Excellence Canada is collaborating with the CMA to support the recipients of the Health Care Unburdened Grant and their initiatives to reduce the administrative burden in health care.

Healthcare Excellence Canada and Canadian Partnership Against Cancer support communities across Canada to improve access to palliative care.