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HealthCareCAN

The national voice of healthcare organizations and hospitals

HealthCareCAN
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Building the Health Infrastructure of Tomorrow

Modern society depends on robust and resilient critical infrastructure. Our health system relies on energy, water, transport, information and communications technology, and other services, just as those sectors depend on essential services from health organizations and providers. Interdependencies within and between sectors are becoming increasingly complex. The rate and severity of natural disasters is also increasing, as is our overall connectivity and dependence on information and communication technologies.

Understanding and mitigating risks posed by potential hazards is essential to the resilience of our critical infrastructure. This requires an integrated perspective since vulnerabilities in one area can have cascading effects across organizational boundaries, sectors, and borders.

Read our 2022 Pre-Budget Brief

Hazards of aging health infrastructure

Weakened Disaster Responsiveness

Decreased ability to respond to disasters (e.g. extreme weather)

Risks to Patient Safety

Increased probability of accidents or hazards (e.g. hospital-acquired infections)

Costs to the Environment

Inability to deploy clean energy solutions

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Canada’s leaders must prioritize crumbling health infrastructure

Laying a strong foundation for a pan-Canadian approach to health care must start with federal investment in health infrastructure.

The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed serious weaknesses and gaps in our patchwork Canadian health system. However, the COVID-19 crisis has also given us the unique opportunity to see how best to rebuild our system to better meet current challenges and those sure to come. For the federal government, Wednesday’s Speech from the Throne provides an important opportunity to increase support for health care infrastructure, a move that will have a significant, positive, and long-lasting impact on the health of Canadians.

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Time for federal leadership

Healthcare quality and outcomes hindered by access issues

This article reviews perceptions of Canada’s public and health professionals regarding access and quality of healthcare. Principal data sources were 13 sequential Health Care in Canada (HCIC) surveys, from 1998 to 2018. A persistent and growing issue in all regions of the country is concern around timely access to care. This concern about timely access involves all major components of healthcare delivery and is anticipated to worsen. Sub-optimal access continues to undermine quality of care.

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Green Health Infrastructure

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Green is Green

Improving the Health, Economic and Environmental Impact, Resilience and Sustainability of Canada’s Hospitals through Green Infrastructure

It is estimated that Canadian hospitals account for 8% of public green-house gas emissions and 11% of total public energy consumption. We believe it is time for Canada to join the movement and include hospital considerations in its sustainable development, green infrastructure and climate change agenda.

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Deferred Maintenance

Communities

Hospitals Building Healthier Communities

Investing Today to Meet the Needs of Tomorrow

With an economy in a state of flux and rising unemployment rates, hospitals provide much needed economic support and stability to communities across Canada. In many communities, a hospital may be the largest employer and can become an integrated part of the community’s framework. HealthCareCAN members alone employ over 600,000 Canadians. However, the state of infrastructure in our country is preventing our research hospitals from performing these essential roles.

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Deferred Hospital Maintenance

There is More to ‘a Building’ than Building it

Review the evidence of deferred maintenance in Canadian hospitals and find out what deferred maintenance is, why it’s important, and what needs to be done about it.

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Submission to House of Commons Committee Urges Health Workforce Action

April 1, 2022

HealthCareCAN supports Public Health Agency of Canada calls for action

December 16, 2021

With Omicron rising, federal government rightly focuses on COVID fight

December 14, 2021

Cloutier and Shipley: Canada’s health-care cybersecurity is in critical condition

December 14, 2021

Digital Health Week is all about the art of the possible for Canadian healthcare

December 1, 2021

It’s time to heed the healthcare wake-up call

November 25, 2021

Status quo will not build a healthier future for all

November 23, 2021

N.L. cyberattack shows Canada needs national rules to protect personal data: experts - Interview with Paul-Émile Cloutier

November 17, 2021

Health research vital to averting global climate catastrophe

November 3, 2021

RHC’s Joint Mandate Letter (on building a stronger and more interconnected health & life sciences ecosystem) - Where Do We Go From Here? RHC podcast with HealthCareCAN

October 31, 2021

HealthCareCAN welcomes new and returning ministers

October 26, 2021

Time to put health of Canadians before politics

September 23, 2021

HealthCareCAN eager to work with new federal government to help Canada emerge stronger

September 21, 2021

An open letter to federal party leaders

September 2, 2021

HealthCareCAN Submission 2022 Federal Budget

HealthCareCAN's 2022 prebudget brief | August 19, 2021

At HealthCareCAN We Believe

August 17, 2021

HealthCareCAN applauds investment strengthening Canada’s biomanufacturing sector

March 31, 2021

HealthCareCAN drives home need for LTC solutions at seniors’ roundtable

March 12, 2021

HealthCareCAN Submission 2021 Federal Budget Consultation

HealthCareCAN's 2021 prebudget brief | February 19, 2021

COVID-19 Amplifies Health System Capacity Shortfalls

HealthCareCAN Policy Brief | January 25, 2021

Field hospitals and cancelled surgeries: health-care system under siege by rising COVID-19 cases - Interview with our President & CEO, Paul-Émile Cloutier

January 5, 2021

Federal Support Urgently Needed to Address Health System Shortfalls

December 15, 2020

Canadians agree: More federal government health leadership needed in a COVID world

December 9, 2020

HealthCareCAN Board speaks with Health Minister Hajdu about health system needs

November 2, 2020

Canada’s leaders must prioritize crumbling health infrastructure

September 22, 2020

Canada’s new normal demands a stronger health system

September 15, 2020

Will COVID-precipitated advances in the use of digital health in Canada persist or backslide in the “next normal”?

September 3, 2020

The First Wealth, is Health

HealthCareCAN's 2021 Pre-Budget Brief | August 18, 2020

Ventilator supply starts to increase as Dr. Theresa Tam warns of possible surge of COVID-19

August 16, 2020

Access and quality of health care in Canada: Insights from 1998 to the present

August 12, 2020

Federal Budget 2021: HealthCareCAN doubles-down on commitments to members

August 7, 2020

HealthCareCAN intensifying push for federal health supports

June 25, 2020

HealthCareCAN advocates for Health Research at HoC Finance commitee meeting

May 21, 2020

NEW COVID-19 RESEARCH FUNDING IN CANADA: Implications for HealthCareCAN Members

April 27, 2020

Entrevue avec Paul-Émile Cloutier : En 2006, le Canada avait un plan en cas de pandémie. Que s'est-il passé? (French)

April 9, 2020

COVID-19: Interview with our President & CEO, Paul-Émile Cloutier on health system preparedness

CBC News - The Current | March 16, 2020

First Ministers must come together on plan for Canada’s health system

HealthCareCAN Press Release | March 12, 2020

If the coronavirus escalates further, would Canada’s hospitals be able to handle an influx of people? - An interview with our President & CEO, Paul-Émile Cloutier

March 11, 2020

Coronavirus could infect 35 to 70 per cent of Canadians, experts say

March 10, 2020

BUILDING TO FEDERAL BUDGET 2020: Policy Brief for Members

March 9, 2020

Hospitals warn they can’t cope if coronavirus outbreak worsens in Canada

March 6, 2020

FEDERAL MINISTERS’ MANDATE LETTERS: Policy Brief for Members

March 4, 2020

HEALTH AND CLIMATE CHANGE: Implications for Members

February 7, 2020

HealthCareCAN & Bruyère Continuing Care appear before the Standing Committee on Finance

February 7, 2020

Federal government commitment to strengthen health care must begin now

December 5, 2019

Real federal leadership needed, it’s time to shape the future of Canada’s health system

November 21, 2019

The future of health in Canada is now

November 6, 2019

Cloutier: In this federal election, let's talk about funding health infrastructure

September 16, 2019

Green Healthcare: The Missing Piece in Canada’s Climate Response

HealthCareCAN's 2020 Pre-Budget Brief | August 15, 2019

A HEALTHY ONTARIO: Building a Sustainable Healthcare System

June 27, 2019

Infographic: An Innovative Federal Approach to Health Care

October 30, 2018

HealthCareCAN commends federal government for investing in science and research

February 27, 2018

Realizing the Canadian Advantage in the Health and Life Sciences

HealthCareCAN's Brief to Canada’s Science Review | September 30, 2016

Leveraging up the Canadian Advantage: The Hidden Economic and Innovation Engine of Canada’s Research Hospital Sector

HealthCareCAN's brief to Canada’s Innovation Agenda | September 29, 2016

Hospitals Building Healthier Communities: Investing Today, to Meet the Needs of Tomorrow

Submitted to Infrastructure Canada’s “INFRAconsults” for Communities | September 16, 2016

“Green is Green” Improving the Health, Economic and Environmental Impact, Resilience and Sustainability of Canada’s Hospitals through Green Infrastructure

Submission to Infrastructure Canada’s “INFRAconsults” for Green Infrastructure | September 16, 2016

Creating a Healthier, Wealthier and Greener Future Through Canada’s Research Hospitals

HealthCareCAN's 2017 H10 Pre-budget Brief | August 5, 2016

Driving Innovation in Healthcare - An Engine for Economic Growth and Prosperity

Speaking Notes for 2016 Pre-Budget Meeting with Minister of Finance | January 20, 2016

Overcoming the ‘Canadian condition’ through innovation

Vancouver Sun | January 19, 2016

Crumbling Hospital Infrastructure Threatens the Care of Canadians

June 16, 2015

Deferred Hospital Maintenance in Canada: There is more to ‘a building’ than building it.

HealthCareCAN | June 14, 2015

What are the winning conditions for Science, Technology and Innovation?

HealthCareCAN Fact Sheet | November 25, 2014

Building the Future: Physical plant needs across Canada’s Academic Healthcare Organizations

Hospital News | February 1, 2011

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