New Brunswick Health Council

What New Brunswick Health Council does

The New Brunswick Health Council (NBHC) is a provincial Crown corporation established by the Government of New Brunswick and headquartered in Moncton. Its statutory mandate is to measure, monitor, and publicly report on health system performance and population health across the province, while engaging citizens in health planning. The Council serves two primary user groups: New Brunswick citizens, who consume its published data, and health system decision makers (government officials, regional health authority administrators, and policymakers), who use its indicators for policy development and resource allocation.

NBHC's core product portfolio is built around five recurring surveys — the Hospital Acute Care Survey, Home Care Survey, Population Health Survey, Primary Care Survey, and Student Wellness and Education Survey — that feed Population Health Profiles covering 33 communities and 7 health zones, with analysis grounded in 400+ population health indicators. The organization also publishes Acute Care, Continuing Care, and Mental Health and Substance Use data tables, an Indicator Search tool, downloadable CSV/PDF exports, and Health Zone reports. Data is sourced through core partnerships with the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI), the New Brunswick Department of Health, Horizon Health Network, Vitalité Health Network, and the New Brunswick Cancer Network. Citizen engagement is operationalized through the Patient Voices Network program.

As an arm's-length government agency, NBHC operates entirely on provincial government appropriations and provides all data, reports, and tools free of charge to the public. There is no commercial revenue model, no paid customers, and no third-party software integrations or AI/ML-driven product features. The Council has between 11 and 50 employees and maintains a single office at 100 Westmorland, Suite 120, Moncton, New Brunswick.

Name

New Brunswick Health Council

Legal name

New Brunswick Health Council

Website

https://nbhc.ca

Company type

Private

Founded year

2008

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

The New Brunswick Health Council is a provincial Crown corporation that measures and publicly reports on health system performance and population health across New Brunswick's 7 health zones and 33 communities, serving citizens and health system decision makers with survey-based data and indicators.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Public Health Performance Reporting

NAICS

Health Care and Social Assistance (62)

SIC

Services-Misc Health & Allied Services, Nec (8090), Services-Health Services (8000)

akta.pro primary industry

State/Provincial/Regional Health Departments (HLAJAAAA)

akta.pro secondary industry

Health Systems Strengthening & Universal Health Coverage (UHC) Partnerships (HLAJAOAL)

Keywords

• Health system performance
• Population health reporting
• Healthcare surveys
• Health indicator analytics
• Patient engagement programs

Headquarters

HQ city

Moncton

HQ country

Canada

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Others

Revenue model

1. Government Funding: NBHC is a Crown corporation established by the New Brunswick government to measure and report on health system performance and population health. As a public sector organization, it operates under government mandate without commercial revenue generation.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

The New Brunswick Health Council (NBHC) is a provincial Crown corporation that measures, monitors, and publicly reports on health system performance and population health across New Brunswick. It conducts recurring healthcare experience surveys (Hospital Acute Care, Home Care, Primary Care, Population Health, Student Wellness), compiles 400+ population health indicators from partner sources (CIHI, Regional Health Authorities, Department of Health), and publishes Population Health Profiles for all 7 health zones and 33 communities, alongside indicator databases, data tables, and the Patient Voices Network citizen engagement program.

Product overview

The New Brunswick Health Council operates as a health system performance and population health intelligence organization, offering a portfolio of survey-based data collection tools and public-facing data reporting products. The core offerings include five distinct surveys (Hospital Acute Care Survey, Home Care Survey, Population Health Survey, Primary Care Survey, and Student Wellness and Education Survey) that gather citizen-reported health data across acute care, continuing care, primary care, and mental health services. These surveys feed into Population Health Profiles covering 33 communities and 7 health zones, with analysis of 400+ population health indicators. The Council provides data tables, indicator search tools, and downloadable exports (CSV/PDF) enabling citizens and stakeholders to explore health system quality metrics including surgical wait times, hospital outcomes, care satisfaction, and health equity measures. Citizen engagement is facilitated through the Patient Voices Network program. The organization does not appear to offer commercial software products, AI capabilities, or third-party integrations.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Population Health Profiles
• Hospital Acute Care Survey
• Home Care Survey
• Population Health Survey
• Primary Care Survey
• Student Wellness and Education Survey
• Patient Voices Network
• Indicator Search
• Data Tables (Acute Care, Continuing Care, Mental Health, Population Health)
• Health Zone Data Reports
• Citizen Engagement Publications

Quantifiable outcome

• Hospital Standardized Mortality Ratio (HSMR) reported at 120.5 for New Brunswick, indicating in-hospital death rates compared to expected
• +2 more outcomes

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

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Partnerships

Five partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI)coreTechnology or IntegrationCIHI provides standardized health data definitions and comparative metrics used in NBHC's hospital and health system indicators, including Hospital Standardized Mortality Ratio, readmission rates, and sepsis rates.
• New Brunswick Department of HealthcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPrimary data source for surgical access registry, provincial health spending data, and cancer network information. NBHC reports on Department of Health metrics and indicators.
• Horizon Health NetworkcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerOne of two regional health authorities in New Brunswick providing hospital and health services data to NBHC for performance reporting across Zone 1, 2, 3, and 7.
• Vitalité Health NetworkcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerOne of two regional health authorities in New Brunswick providing hospital and health services data to NBHC for performance reporting across Zone 1 (partially), 4, 5, and 6.
• New Brunswick Cancer NetworkcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerProvides cancer screening and treatment data including colonoscopy completion rates and cancer surgery wait times for NBHC indicators.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI): National independent body providing standardized health data and performance metrics across Canada. CIHI is an actual data partner of NBHC and represents a broader incumbent whose national scope could subsume provincial reporting functions.
• Public Health Agency of Canada: National federal agency responsible for public health, including population health surveillance and reporting. Operates at a vastly broader scale than NBHC but in an overlapping population-health measurement and reporting domain.

Emerging players

• Manitoba Institute for Patient Safety: Manitoba-based organization focused on patient safety and quality improvement. Operates at a smaller scale than NBHC but in the same provincial health quality space with comparable public engagement and reporting functions.
• Canadian Patient Safety Institute: National organization advancing patient safety and quality improvement across Canada. Overlaps with NBHC's work on hospital harm metrics and patient experience reporting, though at a national rather than provincial level.

Direct peers

• Saskatchewan Health Quality Council: Provincial health quality council in Saskatchewan focused on measuring and improving health system performance. Closely comparable to NBHC in scale, structure, and provincial health system reporting mandate.
• Health Quality Council of Alberta: An independent provincial agency measuring and reporting on Alberta's health system quality, safety, and performance — operating under a near-identical mandate to NBHC with surveys, public reporting, and citizen engagement. Peer among Canadian provincial health quality councils.
• BC Patient Safety & Quality Council: British Columbia's provincial body for health quality and patient safety improvement. Comparable to NBHC in producing public performance reports and engaging citizens in health system improvement within a single Canadian province.
• Health Quality Ontario (Ontario Health Quality): Ontario's provincial health quality and performance reporting body, now part of Ontario Health. Compares directly to NBHC in producing public reports, performance indicators, and patient experience surveys at the provincial level.

Others

• Statistics Canada: National statistical agency producing population-level health and demographic data. Comparable to NBHC as a public source of standardized health indicators but does not operate at the provincial health system performance level.

Regional players

• Atlantic Health Quality and Patient Safety Collaborative: Multi-provincial collaborative serving the Atlantic region (including New Brunswick). Comparable to NBHC in scope of health quality reporting across the same patient population, with a regional rather than purely provincial mandate.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/NBHC.CSNB
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/nbhc-csnb
• Xx.com/conseilsantenb

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