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October 18, 2024
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Everyone plays a role in patient safety—leaders, providers, policymakers, patients, and caregivers. Healthcare Excellence Canada recognizes the vital work happening nationwide to ensure safer care.
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October 18, 2024Baseline Chiropractic and Wellness Centre
Everyone plays a role in patient safety—leaders, providers, policymakers, patients, and caregivers. Healthcare Excellence Canada recognizes the vital work happening nationwide to ensure safer care.:quality(80))
October 17, 2024Engaging patients to reduce hospital harm
New Hospital Harm data shows that 1 in every 17 hospital stays in Canada involved patient harm in 2023-2024, highlighting the ongoing need to make healthcare safer for everyone. Reported by the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI), the rate of hospital harm has held steady at 6% for the past four years after increasing in 2020.:quality(80))
September 17, 2024Sharing Métis Experiences: Cultural Safety in Healthcare
Explore the impact of unsafe care and racism in healthcare for the Métis. Understand the cultural safety needs of Métis communities today.:quality(80))
July 30, 2024Community-built solutions to aging well at home
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.:quality(80))
July 4, 2024Reflecting on 25 years
Nancy Quattrocchi, outgoing Vice-President, Corporate Services at Healthcare Excellence Canada, reflects on what she’s led and learned during her career here.:quality(80))
May 29, 2024How communities across Canada are addressing health inequities for people in precarious housing through palliative care
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.:quality(80))
April 18, 2024Leaning into patient safety
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.:quality(80))
February 29, 2024Digging for Dinosaurs: Towards Better, Safer Care
Have you ever asked yourself, “Why do we do things this way?” Last fall, in conjunction with Canadian Patient Safety Week, teams from the Health Workforce Innovation Challenge were invited to reflect on this question through the Dinosaur Mini-Challenge. By “digging for dinosaurs” around their work practices, teams identified and worked to re-examine practices that no longer promote safety.