Get involved in your local hospital by submitting your application to join the skills-based, community-oriented team of volunteer directors at Muskoka Algonquin Healthcare (MAHC) as a board member or a committee appointee member of a standing committee.
Annually, the Board, through the Nominations Committee, identifies vacancy requirements and conducts a recruitment drive in advance of the Annual Meeting. MAHC is inviting formal applications from candidates to fill upcoming vacancies. The successful candidate’s term would begin immediately following the Annual Meeting, typically held in June. Previous experience on boards with similar scope and challenges (not necessarily health care) is an asset.
“With our capital redevelopment project on the horizon for the future Made-in-Muskoka Healthcare system, this is a particularly exciting time for MAHC’s Board of Directors,” says Nominations Committee Chair Tim Ellis. “We are looking for candidates who want to help shape the future of healthcare for our communities.”
MAHC is seeking applications from individuals with a broad range of skills, perspectives and expertise, and is particularly interested in individuals who possess the following competencies:
· Quality and Performance
o Quality and safety expertise in business or industry; understanding of quality-of-care issues and performance measurement; benchmarking experience; experience in process improvement methodology
· Health Care
o Experience in/or understanding of health care leadership, or a practitioner with experience and/or understanding of health care operations, funding and systems.
o Understanding of the principles and processes of healthcare funding and fostering funding relationships
· Community Relationship Building
o Has been actively engaged in the community and is seen as a community leader/influencer
o Understanding of broader stakeholder environments
· Environmental, Social and Governance
o Demonstrated knowledge of environmental, social and governance issues, including inclusion, diversity, equity and anti-racism issues
Applicants must meet eligibility requirements, live, work, or be registered on a municipal voters’ list or tax roll in the Muskoka or East Parry Sound geographic area, and be 18 years of age or older. A police criminal record check is also required.
In addition to attending board and standing committee meetings, board directors must be able to devote at least 25 hours per month for meeting preparation, committee work, and other events for up to a three-year appointment. Generally, board meetings alternate between the Huntsville and South Muskoka hospital sites each month with some meetings using virtual platforms.
Applications are also being accepted for committee appointee members of standing committees. Applicants must attend the standing committee meetings and provide a time commitment of approximately three to five hours bi-monthly for a one-year appointment.
The Board of Directors continually strives to represent the diversity of voices and experiences in our community and strongly encourages individuals from underrepresented communities to apply.
The application deadline for both a board member and non-director committee member is Sunday, March 10, 2024. Learn more and apply online today by visiting www.mahc.ca/boardrecruitment. Only those applicants chosen to be interviewed will be contacted.
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This from a local Huntsville doc in 2016
MUSKOKA – The medical community had a dire warning for council.
Dr. Greg Stewart told Huntsville town council at its March 29 meeting that to lose surgical services here would cause a cascading loss of services for the community. Stewart was speaking on behalf of a coalition of Huntsville-area medical practitioners who recently presented a position paper on the future of hospitals in the area that opposed several aspects of a recent joint proposal of Bracebridge and Huntsville councils.
Specifically, the joint council meeting proposed a two-site model with hospitals in each community that would have 24-hour emergency departments, in-patient medical beds to support emergency admissions, allied health professionals and services to support in-patient care, and core diagnostic services. The difference between the hospital is that Site A would have in-patient, emergency and day surgery capacity, a critical care unit, a family birthing unit, specialty services while Site B would have services like complex continuing care beds, out-patient nutrition services, but, notably, not full surgery capacity.
Stewart said the Site B hospital, which does not have full surgery capabilities, would over time lose many more of its services.
“If we become Site B there is a predictable cascade of events that leads to exactly the loss of services that 10 years ago were defined as appropriate for Huntsville to have,” said Stewart.
He said surgeons will locate their offices, and often their homes, near surgical hospitals in order to better respond to their in-patient responsibilities. Once they move, he said, support services like obstetrics would become impossible; trauma teams lose a valuable team member and anesthesiologists move. All this would completely change the hospital in a few years.
“They will affect everyone, especially the economically marginalized and the elderly. When there is an emergency in your family you will quickly be aware of how far away services are. Lets consider that for others and consider it ahead of time,” said Stewart.
This from a local Huntsville doc in 2016
MUSKOKA – The medical community had a dire warning for council.
Dr. Greg Stewart told Huntsville town council at its March 29 meeting that to lose surgical services here would cause a cascading loss of services for the community. Stewart was speaking on behalf of a coalition of Huntsville-area medical practitioners who recently presented a position paper on the future of hospitals in the area that opposed several aspects of a recent joint proposal of Bracebridge and Huntsville councils.
Specifically, the joint council meeting proposed a two-site model with hospitals in each community that would have 24-hour emergency departments, in-patient medical beds to support emergency admissions, allied health professionals and services to support in-patient care, and core diagnostic services. The difference between the hospital is that Site A would have in-patient, emergency and day surgery capacity, a critical care unit, a family birthing unit, specialty services while Site B would have services like complex continuing care beds, out-patient nutrition services, but, notably, not full surgery capacity.
Stewart said the Site B hospital, which does not have full surgery capabilities, would over time lose many more of its services.
“If we become Site B there is a predictable cascade of events that leads to exactly the loss of services that 10 years ago were defined as appropriate for Huntsville to have,” said Stewart.
He said surgeons will locate their offices, and often their homes, near surgical hospitals in order to better respond to their in-patient responsibilities. Once they move, he said, support services like obstetrics would become impossible; trauma teams lose a valuable team member and anesthesiologists move. All this would completely change the hospital in a few years.
“They will affect everyone, especially the economically marginalized and the elderly. When there is an emergency in your family you will quickly be aware of how far away services are. Lets consider that for others and consider it ahead of time,” said Stewart.