This is the latest update from Muskoka Algonquin Health Care (MAHC) on the Capital Plan Development Task Force which is tasked with overseeing Stage 1 Proposal planning as part of MAHC’s planning for the future work.
The Capital Plan Development Task Force met on December 11 and reconvened after the holidays on January 15.
The task force discussed community consultation and agreed to arrange an evening for the public to make presentations through delegations to the task force. More details will follow.
Task force members participated in workshops with hospital clinicians and community health care providers to define and develop two of the models the task force is considering. The workshops have also been attended by MAHC Board Directors, who as observers at the workshops, are gaining insight into the comprehensive approach toward planning quality care and the various challenges being discussed.
One Site Inpatient, One Site Outpatient model: Through a workshop held on Nov. 17, a consensus model was reached where participants agreed on the programs/services that could be provided at an outpatient site, the programs/services that could move to community in the future, and the programs/services and beds required at an inpatient site.
Two Sites – Not Status Quo: A workshop was held on Jan. 8 to develop a Two Sites – Not Status Quo model. Four different groups worked through the task creating four different models that will be further distilled. The similarities of the models will be incorporated and further work is being undertaken to marry the similarities of the models and work through the differences using additional workshops to arrive at a final draft model that could be proposed for consensus.
The task force was briefed on meetings that continue to occur with key stakeholders regarding the potential impacts of each of the three models on land use planning, paramedic services, economic development and local share fundraising.
The next task force meeting is January 29, 2018.
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Lee Copland says
More smoke and mirrors, the MAHC will go ahead with one hospital regardless of what the local population request and require.
jean bagshaw says
-there is already one hospital
-this happened when the two amalgamated several years ago
-from an organizational perspective, there is one administration over-seeing two buildings on two sites, both comprise one hospital called Muskoka Algonquin Health Care (MAHC)
-journalists and other writers who refer to the Huntsville Hospital and the Bracebridge Hospital are, in my opinion, misleading the public
-we were given the option of one hospital and asked to decide how we would like it to be organized
-for example:
1. two sites with different services at each, site a) would have surgery, anaesthetists, surgeons, internists, emergency department whilst site b) would have rehabilitation, clinics, stroke care and some emergency capability…this would effectively result in one acute care hospital site (the site a)
2. two sites, one with inpatients and one with outpatients…this would effectively result in one acute care hospital site (the inpatient site)
3. one building on one site
-it isn’t a matter of number of beds or number of patient rooms, because there was and is space for more of both, since several beds were closed years ago
-it is a question of modernization, efficiency, technological advancement, meeting new and improved standards, access, ability to attract medical specialist, financial viability, availability of staff etc.
-we already have one hospital
-it is a question of how it will be configured and where it will be located, how accessible it is, how much we get for the funds invested in it