Programs: Primary and community care

Enhancing Integrated Care helps primary and community care delivery organizations strengthen integrated team-based care models, including virtual care, making access easier and easing pressure on emergency departments.

Healthcare Excellence Canada launched the Strengthening Primary Care in Northern, Rural and Remote Communities program (Strengthening Primary Care) to strengthen access to team-based primary care in northern, rural and remote communities.

This collaborative aims to improve access to equity-oriented palliative care with and for people experiencing homelessness or vulnerable housing.

Virtual care is growing rapidly across the country as more primary care providers use technology to deliver healthcare. That’s why Healthcare Excellence Canada has launched an initiative to help care providers and patients work together to ensure virtual care is provided in an appropriate, safe and equitable way.

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.

Healthcare Excellence Canada partnered with Canada Health Infoway, the College of Family Physicians of Canada and the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada to spread the adoption of two proven innovations that had substantially increased access to primary care specialty services.

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.

Virtual Care Together supports healthcare providers with tools and training to deliver safe and high-quality virtual care.

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