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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.

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.

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.

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.

Explore the impact of unsafe care and racism in healthcare for the Métis. Understand the cultural safety needs of Métis communities today.

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.

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.

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.