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.
We are still not sure that MAHC is listening ~ former MAHC directors
Did MAHC hear the voice of the community? Some Muskoka residents likely watched YourTV’s recent Muskoka Matters show, Health Care in Muskoka. The show featured MAHC Capital Planning Task Force Chair Cameron Renwick, Vice Chair Don Mitchell and hospital CEO Natalie...
Green Party leader says he favours two acute care hospitals for this area
Green Party of Ontario leader Mike Schreiner made a pit stop in Huntsville on Wednesday as the Greens gear up for a June election. He told those gathered at Partners Hall that his party would support two hospitals in Muskoka.
Our Town with Grant Nickalls: Fighting for our hospital
Each week, Huntsville’s own Grant Nickalls will inspire us, entertain us, make us laugh or perhaps cry, but always he will remind us why Huntsville is the best place on earth to call home.
If the Hospital Board and the CEO would just work with us we could be powerful allies ~ Huntsville mayor Scott Aitchison
A thriving Huntsville is important to me. Obstacles to the prosperity of our community are what bug me. And what makes me tick is my ambition to ensure that the fleeting time in which I am the custodian of the office I hold will be well regarded by the people I serve and by those of future generations who look back on our achievements
Travel Time Issues
I am a volunteer with South Muskoka Memorial Hospital, and I support two existing hospitals, each with an Emergency Department, for several reasons. The MAHC Task Force has already conducted two surveys, both of which show overwhelmingly that the community does not...
Emergency Time – Comparative Data
Written by: Peter Cross (Personal Appeal) Dear Task Force Members: Thank you for all your time and work on this MAHC Task Force Committee. Our primary goal is for all of us to work together as a team to fix the flawed provincial funding formula that has hurt rural...
Patients First
Hi there my name is Dan Waters. None of the people on the board or the executive of MAHC will be surprised at how I feel about closing hospitals. - Least of all Evelyn Brown to whom I’ve made it very clear that closing schools and hospitals in our...
The Community is Clear on Desired Hospital Future – Summary of Taskforce Presentations
The March 1st presentations to MAHC’s Capital Planning Task Force held at the District of Muskoka Council Chambers by sixteen presenters once again provided increased clarity of the wishes of residents & taxpayers within the District & surrounding areas. ...
Why does the hospital redevelopment task force continue to work at odds with the wishes of the community?
Sven Miglin, Past President of MAHC On March 1, the MAHC Capital Plan Development Task Force held a Hospital Future Planning Public Meeting in which members of the public could make an oral presentation to them. There were 16 presenters. I was one of them. Here is...