---
title: "Healthcare Excellence Canada (HEC)"
url: "https://canadaservicemap.ca/bodies/healthcare-excellence-canada-hec"
description: "Healthcare Excellence Canada (HEC), Government of Canada. Official website: healthcareexcellence.ca. Portfolio: Health Canada. Description from GC InfoBase."
site: "Canada Service Map"
author: "Mahmoud Halat"
publisher: "Space & Story"
updated: "2026-10-14"
licence: "Built entirely from public data: open data and official government pages. Each record keeps the licence of its source, listed at https://canadaservicemap.ca/data."
---
# Healthcare Excellence Canada (HEC)

Government of Canada · Corporations

Compiled by Mahmoud Halat, updated 14 October 2026. Not a government website. The official page always has the final word.

## About

Healthcare Excellence Canada was formed in 2021 by amalgamating the Canadian Patient Safety Institute and the Canadian Foundation for Healthcare Improvement. It finds, promotes and spreads improvements in health care quality and patient safety.

Source: [GC InfoBase, Inventory of Federal Organizations and Interests (Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat)](https://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/a35cf382-690c-4221-a971-cf0fd189a46f). Licence: Open Government Licence - Canada.

## Facts

- Jurisdiction: Government of Canada
- Layer: Corporations
- Class: Shared-Governance Corporations
- Portfolio: [Health Canada](https://canadaservicemap.ca/bodies/health-canada)

## Official websites

- [healthcareexcellence.ca/en](https://www.healthcareexcellence.ca/en/)
- [healthcareexcellence.ca/fr](https://www.healthcareexcellence.ca/fr/)

## Sources

- Description source: [GC InfoBase, Inventory of Federal Organizations and Interests (Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat)](https://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/a35cf382-690c-4221-a971-cf0fd189a46f). Licence: Open Government Licence - Canada.
- Record from: [GC InfoBase, Inventory of Federal Organizations and Interests](https://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/a35cf382-690c-4221-a971-cf0fd189a46f). Licence: Open Government Licence - Canada.

## More

- [View it in the explorer](https://canadaservicemap.ca/explore?sel=ifoi:559), with the sources of its record.
- [Data and sources](https://canadaservicemap.ca/data): every record keeps the licence of its source.

## Cite this page

Canada Service Map, "Healthcare Excellence Canada (HEC)", updated 14 October 2026, https://canadaservicemap.ca/bodies/healthcare-excellence-canada-hec