Safer Healthcare Now!, a program of the Canadian Patient Safety Institute (CPSI), is making home care safety a priority and has recently assembled a group of experts to serve on our newly-formed Canadian Home Care Faculty.
In 2013, the landmark Safety at Home: A Pan-Canadian Home Care Study examined the prevalence, incidence, magnitude and types of adverse events in home care. The study found that the annual incident rate of patient safety incidents was in the range of 10 to 13 per cent and that 56 per cent of these were preventable.
In parallel, CPSI is committed to improving home care safety in Canada as part of its Patient Safety – Forward with Four business plan. A roundtable was held in June 2014 in partnership with the Canadian Home Care Association, with attendees from across Canada to begin elevating and accelerating the pace, scale and spread of safety in home care. One key enabler required to advance actions identified at the roundtable was the creation of a Canadian Home Care Safety Faculty.
This new Faculty will collaborate on generating evidence, identifying improvement opportunities and strategies to support healthcare providers and organizations within the home care sector on a national scale. We look forward to sharing the results of their work with you in the months and years to come. Inaugural Faculty members are:
Cathryn Cortissoz, RN, BS |
CSA Group |
Karen Curry,
RN, MN, CCHNc |
VON Canada |
Barb Farlow |
Patients for Patients Safety Canada |
Kim Fraser, PhD |
Nursing Faculty, University of Alberta |
Scott Hebert,
MHSA, MSc, CHE |
Waterloo Wellington Community Care Access Centre |
Nadine Henningsen |
Canadian Home Care Association |
Dr. John Hirdes, PhD. |
School of Public Health & Health Systems, University of Waterloo |
Dr. Pamela Jarrett |
Horizon Health Network |
Julija Kelecevic, PhD(c) |
Department of Family Medicine, McMaster University |
Helene Lacroix,
MSc |
Saint Elizabeth Health Care |
Ariella Lang RN, PhD. |
VON Canada |
Anne Lyddiatt |
Patients for Patients Safety Canada |
Heather MacArthur, BSc, RPN |
VON Canada |
Marilyn MacDonald, PhD |
School of Nursing, Faculty of Health Professions, Dalhousie University |
Lori Mitchell, PhD. |
Winnipeg Regional Health Authority |
Nancy Sears, PhD |
St. Lawrence College |
Dr. Thuy-Nga Pham |
Toronto East General Hospital and South East Toronto Family Health Team (SETFHT),
Department of Family and Community Medicine (DFCM), University of Toronto |
Dr. Eric Wasylenko |
Health Quality Council of Alberta |
Betty Wills, PhD |
CBI Home Health / We Care Home Health (Alberta) |