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.
Minister of Health’s response to MPS MPP Norm Miller
Minister of Health (Helena Jaczek) response to Norm Miller recent questions regarding the future of our hospitals and the dismal share (~1.2 %) MAHC got (of the $822M budget increase handed out) is troubling. She pointed to this reason: we didn’t have the same...
Hospital planning must consider societal costs, not just bricks and mortar
As the current discussion in Muskoka demonstrates, few things evoke emotional reactions more than hospital planning. Access to a convenient hospital has the potential to be a life or death factor for all of us, every day of our lives from the first day to the last day. But hospital planning is complicated and is fraught with (to borrow a phrase from Al Gore’s book) several inconvenient truths (ITs).
MPP Norm Miller and Health Minister at odds over funding for this riding’s hospitals
In today’s Question Period, Parry Sound-Muskoka MPP Norm Miller pressed the new Minister of Health and Long-Term Care, Helena Jaczek, to support maintaining two hospitals in Muskoka and to ensure this area’s hospitals get a fair share of funding.
MPP Norm Miller launches petition to keep two hospital sites
Parry Sound-Muskoka MPP Norm Miller launched a petition this weekend calling upon the Minister of Health and Long-Term Care to commit to maintaining core services at both Huntsville Memorial Hospital and South Muskoka Memorial Hospital.
MAHC leadership needs to deliver what the community has demanded ~ former MAHC directors
A ray of hope emerged with MAHC’s recent announcement that the “not status quo” qualification was dropped, putting the community’s preferred two full acute-care site option on the table for evaluation, coming three years late. Now, a pressing concern is what costing...
The fact that MAHC is a self-appointing board needs to change
Letter to the Editor by Sven Miglin Click here
2 Full Hospital Acute Care Sites – Finally considered?
A ray of hope emerged with MAHC’s recent announcement that the “not Status Quo” qualification was dropped, putting the community’s preferred 2-full acute care site option on the table for evaluation; coming 3 years late. Now, a pressing concern is what costing...
Listen Up! MAHC needs to do three simple things to regain the community’s trust
The last few weeks have been a period of high tension in Huntsville in relation to maintaining an acute care hospital in this community. Perhaps it is time to cool things down a bit. The nub of the issue is whether the movers and shakers at Muskoka Algonquin Health...
MPP Norm Miller supports two hospital sites, calls for increased funding
Parry Sound-Muskoka MPP Norm Miller made the following statement in support of everyone who relies upon the hospitals in Huntsville and Bracebridge: