Canadian Hospitals and the Health Care System: Views of Hospital Executives

The most recent Commonwealth Fund International Health Policy Survey asked hospital executives in five countries—Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States—for their views of their nation's health care system, the level and quality of their hospitals' resources, and efforts to improve quality of care. In Canada, the survey presents a picture of a publicly governed health care system operating under considerable stress, but one with which the vast majority of hospital executives interviewed were at least somewhat satisfied.