Programs: Patient engagement

Essential Together was designed to support the safe reintegration of Essential Care Partners into health and care settings, during COVID-19 and beyond.

The Nursing Home Without Walls program helps nursing and LTC homes support older adults to age in place with access to essential services and support.

HEC’s approach to engagement with patients, caregivers, and communities, has been co-developed with patient partners, staff and leaders to ensure purposeful, inclusive and diverse engagement practice.

Through the Enabling Aging in Place collaborative, 26 health and social service organizations worked alongside older adults, care partners and community partners to strengthen locally grounded, person-centred approaches shaped by lived experience and real-world conditions. Together, they advanced practical ways to bring care closer to home and support people to live safely and well in their communities.

Reimagining LTC supported long-term care homes to work together to build better care with and for people living and working in long-term care in Canada. The program helped participants address gaps in the safety and quality of care in long-term care, by providing more support to healthcare workers and building capacity to make care more person-centred.

The Cultural Safety Design Collaborative supported non-Indigenous organizations to address systemic racism experienced by First Nations, Inuit and Métis and improve cultural safety in the healthcare system.

The Promoting Life Together Collaborative modelled a co-designed learning program, bringing together multi-disciplinary teams from across northern, rural and remote parts of Canada using a shared learning approach. The name of the collaborative was re-framed to focus on ‘life promotion’, recognizing the need to take a broader and more encompassing approach to the issue of suicide, to consider all aspects of one’s life and community wellness.

The Health Workforce Innovation Challenge supported teams across Canada to strengthen their workforces and deliver safer, higher-quality care. Find out what teams accomplished and how they’re helping make positive changes across health systems.

A self-directed program that helps you optimize patient care by improving communication and teamwork skills.