Working Together for Better Care: Benefits of Health and Social Care Partnerships
Our most pressing challenges in healthcare require focused, constructive discussions. Sharing openly and listening to diverse perspectives and experiences. At Healthcare Excellence Canada, we’ve developed the Spotlight Series to do just that.
May 29, 2024, 12 pm – 1:30 pm (ET)
Health and social care partnerships provide a unique opportunity to address complex health and social needs. With social determinants of health, such as employment and housing, accounting for 30-55 percent of health outcomes (World Health Organization), there’s been a call in this country to engage with sectors beyond health to improve equitable access to care.
Join us on May 29 as our panel of health and social care experts—from leaders to providers to people with lived experiences—shares the impact of these partnerships and how their experiences of working together makes a difference.
All registrants will have access to a recording and a list of resources on health and social care partnerships after the event, which will be posted on the HEC website.
Panelists
- Jill Gerke, Director, Regional Community Programs, Island Health
- Nikki Page, Manager, Housing and Shelters, Victoria Cool Aid Society
- Nikki George, Director of Indigenous Health Policy, Health Equity and System Transformation, Ontario Health West Region
- Louise Bird, Patient Partner/Caregiver
Host
Tanya MacDonald, Director, Strategic Initiatives and Programs, Healthcare Excellence Canada
Resources
- A toolkit on how to implement Social Prescribing (World Health Organization, 2022)
- Poverty: A Clinical Tool for Primary Care (Centre for Effective Practice, 2016)
- Learning from Practice: Joint Action for Equity- Working Together to holistically support the underhoused population during COVID-19 (National Collaborating Centre for Determinants of Health, 2023)
- Learning From Practice: Promoting wellbeing and health equity among older adults (National Collaborating Centre for Determinants of Health, 2023)
- Learning from Practice: Joint Action for Equity - Community-centred collaboration responds to Cargill outbreak (National Collaborating Centre for Determinants of Health, 2023)
- Enabling Aging in Place Promising Practices: Maple Ridge/Pitt Meadows Community Services Social Prescribing Program (Healthcare Excellence Canada, 2023)
- Improving Equity in Access to Palliative Care (Healthcare Excellence Canada)
- Bridge-to-Home (Healthcare Excellence Canada)
- Nursing Home Without Walls (Healthcare Excellence Canada)
- Enabling Aging in Place (Healthcare Excellence Canada)
- The Collective Impact Toolkit (Tamarack Institute, 2022)
- Equipping for Equity Online Modules (EQUIP Health Care)
- Tools & Resources | ePAC (Equity in Palliative Approaches to Care)
- A Collective Response to Death, Dying, and Grief in the Inner City (Equity in Palliative Approaches to Care, 2023)
- Too Little, Too Late: How we fail vulnerable Canadians as they die and what to do about it (University of Victoria (Institute on Aging & Lifelong Health), 2018)
