Annual Roundtable
Each year, the Executive Network members come together for an in-person roundtable event to learn with, and from, each other about priority focus areas of shared importance.
2020 Roundtable
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2020 annual in-person Network Roundtable was postponed. However, in May 2020, the former Canadian Foundation for Healthcare Improvement (CFHI), newly amalgamated with the Canadian Patient Safety Institute (CPSI) and recognized as Healthcare Excellence Canada (HEC), hosted a 90- minute virtual roundtable learning event, designed to address some of the rapid changes occurring across the health system due to Covid-19, particularly in the area of virtual primary care. Positive feedback from this event led to the development and delivery of the Virtual Learning Exchange in Virtual Primary Care in northern and remote regions.
2019 Roundtable in Vancouver, British Columbia
Primary care continues to be a priority focus for the Network members. The 2019 Roundtable focused on the theme of “care closer to home” and the participants were afforded the opportunity to attend the First Nations Primary Care and Mental Health and Wellness Summit: Weaving Holistic Wellness into the Healthcare System in adjunction to the Roundtable.
2018 Roundtable in Ottawa, Ontario
This roundtable brought together Network members to learn about primary care models in northern and remote regions, and to enhance health leadership for reconciliation. The event overlapped with the Promoting Life Together Collaborative meeting discussing evaluation methods using Indigenous perspectives. Executive Network members attending the roundtable also had the opportunity to learn more about the collaborative and the evaluation approaches.
2017 Roundtable in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories
The goal of this roundtable was to share wise practices to support healthcare delivery improvements in northern and remote regions of Canada. There were presentations and discussions of challenges and opportunities in: healthcare and policy planning stakeholder engagement; healthcare improvement in a time of fiscal constraint; crisis response; and technology and access. Discussions with members formed the foundation for a suicide prevention collaborative, which evolved to the Promoting Life Collaborative. There was a site visit to the community of Behchokǫ̀ which has an established self-government in the Northwest Territories that built a new health and social services centre.
2016 Roundtable in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
This roundtable followed a unique one-day Indigenous Cultural Competence Course delivered by CFHI and concluded with a site visit to the All Nations Healing Hospital in Fort Qu’Appelle on Treaty 4. CFHI was honoured to sign its first partnership agreement with an Indigenous organization, Thunderbird Partnership Foundation, committing to support the Mental Wellness Continuum Framework.
2015 Roundtable in Winnipeg, Manitoba
The goal of this roundtable was to further develop and strengthen working relationships between the Network members, by sharing common challenges and brainstorming innovations to support healthcare delivery improvements in northern and remote contexts. The discussion from this roundtable informed future programming for the then called Northern and Remote Collaboration.
2014 Roundtable in Banff, Alberta
Senior healthcare leaders from across Canada came together to create a common vision for cross-regional collaboration and improvement in healthcare delivery in the northern, rural or remote context. Joe Gallagher, CEO of First Nations Health Authority in British Columbia delivered a keynote speaker and a series of promising improvement projects were shared by Executive Committee members. Results of the 2014 roundtable informed the development of a regional collaboration.
2013 Roundtable in Calgary, Alberta
This event brought together a core group of health service delivery organizations and their research colleagues from British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario and Newfoundland and Labrador.