About CPSI

Established by Health Canada in 2003, the Canadian Patient Safety Institute (CPSI) works with governments, health organizations, leaders, and healthcare providers to inspire extraordinary improvement in patient safety and quality. We are:

• Advocates, creating new conversations about patient safety through papers and commissioned research
• Catalysts, providing the capital to generate, introduce, and promote new ideas, products, and tools
• Integrators, co-investing and aligning policy, systems, and patients’ needs through measurement, asking, listening, and talking
• Brokers, leveraging the system through formal and informal organizational alliances
• Promoters, celebrating patient safety and transferring knowledge to others

We develop evidence-informed products, provide excellent stewardship of resources, ensure clear and open communication, deliver measurable results, celebrate the successes of our partners, nurture successful partnerships, and are passionate about safe healthcare for all Canadians. We:

• Help your patient safety and quality initiatives grow
• Work with your agenda to coordinate efforts
• Listen to the system, catalyze change, launch new ideas, and invest in promising developments
• Spotlight patient safety issues

Our Strategic Priorities

• Improve the safety of patient care in Canada through learning, sharing, and implementing interventions that are known to reduce avoidable harm.
• Build governance capability.
• Support networks.
• Increase capacity through evidence-informed resources and tools.

Vision

Mission