CROSS BORDER HEALTH FOUNDATION

What they do

THE FOUNDATION is FOCUSED ON PROMOTING IMPROVED HEALTHCARE BY LEVERAGING CANADA and THE UNITED STATES CLOSE, CONTINUING RELATIONSHIP IN ALL SECTORS. ALTHOUGH CANADA and THE UNITED STATES HAVE A LONG HISTORY of COLLABORATING ON A WIDE RANGE of POLICY ISSUES, HEALTH POLICY is OFTEN IGNORED BECAUSE THE TWO SYSTEMS ARE PERCEIVED to BE ENTIRELY DIFFERENT FROM ONE ANOTHER. WHILE OUR SYSTEMS MAY SEEM DISSIMILAR ON THE SURFACE, MANY of THE CHALLENGES ASSOCIATED WITH PROVIDING BETTER HEALTHCARE ARE THE SAME. is UNDERGOING TRANSFORMATIVE ADJUSTMENTS IN DELIVERY and ADMINISTRATION. THE ROLE of GOVERNMENT IN AREAS SUCH AS FUNDING CARE and SETTING STANDARDS WILL EVOLVE SIGNIFICANTLY OVER THE NEXT DECADE AT THE FEDERAL, STATE, and PROVINCIAL LEVELS. BOTH NATIONS MUST ACCOMMODATE AN AGING POPULATION, WHILE CHAMPIONING NETWORKS, PROGRAMS, and TECHNOLOGY THAT CAN IMPROVE QUALITY and STIMULATE INNOVATION.