Resources: Health Equity

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, many healthcare facilities in Canada implemented blanket visitor restriction policies that prohibited essential care partners from entering facilities and partnering in patient care.

These co-developed guiding principles outline HEC’s approach to engaging with patients, caregivers and communities and highlight our dedication to creating an engagement-capable environment.

This virtual learning opportunity aims to build the capacity to be equitable and inclusive in our work as we engage with diverse people with lived experiences.

This resource offers strategies for inclusive engagement, leveraging community strengths to shape solutions that reflect older adults’ needs, experiences and support long-term impact.

This discussion guide explores a new approach to patient safety where everyone contributes to safer care, and the vital roles of cultural and psychological safety are emphasized.

This framework outlines the ways Healthcare Excellence Canada embeds patient, caregiver and community perspectives into our programming, activities and initiatives.

A guide for nursing and LTC homes to assess if the NHWW model for community-based aging in place care is the right fit for them.

Health system leaders, communities and patients in northern and remote areas of Canada face unique challenges when developing, implementing and evaluating effective and sustainable healthcare solutions.

The Shaping the Future of Care Closer to Home for Older Adults Environmental Scan and Consultation Summary Report summarizes opportunities to reimagine excellence in care for older adults living at home. It brings together the voices of people with lived experience and individuals and organizations working in the home care field, as well as relevant literature and reports.