Mental Health
The following a page designed to share reports, opinions, editorials including challenges and opportunities facing mental health services in Muskoka and area. Each article includes a link to the complete article, as well as the name or group writing the piece. The goal is to highlight diverse research, discussions and share perspectives from experienced professionals within and outside the healthcare sector.
A hospital in Port Sydney identified as problematic: Aitchison
Huntsville Mayor Scott Aitchison The Capital Plan Development Task Force is expected to make a recommendation on a future hospital model to the hospital board sometime by the end of July, according to Huntsville Mayor Scott Aitchison. Aitchison, who sits on the task...
The focus on internal cost savings is a detriment to hospital planning
The integrity of hospital planning … It is difficult to know whether the focus on internal cost is coming from the Ministry of Health, the regional LHIN, or from local MAHC planners. But the focus on internal costs at the expense of external costs raises serious...
Candidates weigh in on the need for more long-term care beds and supports for the elderly
Parry Sound-Muskoka has a higher number of seniors living here than the provincial average and as more people retire, especially to this area, the ability to provide adequate services for an aging population has become a growing concern. The issue was raised at...
MAHC Capital Plan Development Task Force has begun reviewing operational costs and space needs for hospital models
The Capital Plan Development Task Force met on April 30. Reports: The task force reviewed a report on high-level operational cost forecasting for the three models. Task force members asked for clarification and revisions to the report for their next meeting. The task...
Council puts motion calling for the dismissal of hospital’s board and CEO on hold
The council chamber was packed Monday night as those in attendance anxiously awaited the results of a much-talked about motion of non-confidence in the hospital board and CAO, calling for the dismissal of both.
Health Minister awaits ‘formal’ notice calling on the dismissal of the hospital board, amidst a provincial election
It’s been over a week since Huntsville Council passed a resolution asking the Minister of Health to dismiss the Board of Directors of Muskoka Algonquin Healthcare (MAHC).
Community members packed the Algonquin Theatre on April 23 when the motion was passed. Many expressed fear of losing one of Muskoka’s two acute care hospitals, which service very different parts of the region.
Listen Up! Council’s call for dismissal of hospital board the right thing to do
A Bold but Necessary Step …
Huntsville Council took a very bold step last Monday in approving a motion calling for the dismissal of the Board of Directors of Muskoka Algonquin Healthcare (MAHC). It is my view that this could have been avoided, but after all was said and done it was the right thing to do.
MPP Norm Miller thanks volunteers for collecting hospital petition signatures
Parry Sound-Muskoka MPP Norm Miller made the following statement in the legislature on April 24 thanking the volunteers who have been working tirelessly to distribute and collect petitions to save the Huntsville District Memorial and South Muskoka Memorial Hospitals before reading the petition into the record again. Since launching the petition less than three weeks ago Miller has so far received petitions containing approximately 4,000 signatures.
Council passes resolution asking the Province to fire the hospital board
In the end, there was no persuading Huntsville Council on Monday night. The rift between it and the Board of Muskoka Algonquin Healthcare (MAHC) had become so wide that in an unprecedented vote, an overwhelming majority of councillors declared that they had lost faith in the hospital board and called on the Health Minister to immediately dismiss it.