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Although the board and administration of Muskoka Algonquin Health Care (MAHC) continue to work on a restructuring plan that would see one centrally-located hospital replace the two existing hospitals in Muskoka, Huntsville Mayor Scott Aitchison is feeling more confident that an alternative plan being touted by area municipalities and healthcare providers will save the two-hospital model.<\/p>\n

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Still, MAHC is obligated to continue with its plan. \u201cThey\u2019ve submitted the first phase of it and the Province has responded by saying \u2018we need more information on a few different items\u2019 and so they\u2019re back to the drawing board,\u201d said Huntsville Mayor Scott Aitchison.<\/p>\n

The Mayor is part of a taskforce that was struck by the North Simcoe Muskoka Local Health Integration Network (LHIN), which co-ordinates and funds health care services in the area on behalf of the Ministry of Health, to find a consensus among stakeholders.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the meantime, our taskforce has been meeting and, in part because of the doctors of North Muskoka coming together and agreeing to primary care reform, the hospital board, the LHIN, the municipalities of Muskoka, East Parry Sound, and the District, and the medical community \u2013 at least in North Muskoka \u2013 are all very eager to come together to find a transformation of the way we deliver healthcare as opposed to trying to close both hospitals and trying to build one,” said Aitchison.<\/p>\n

We were able to demonstrate that even if they close both hospitals in Huntsville and Bracebridge and build one in Port Sydney, we still wouldn\u2019t be sustainable in the Province\u2019s funding formula. We need to make some transformative change to the way we deliver it and save money that way.
\nMayor Scott Aitchison<\/cite><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The taskforce, which includes the chair of the board of MAHC, got off to a rocky start, said Aitchison. \u201cWhen we started these taskforce meetings they were hostile. Charlie Forret would just sit there and scowl at us. A couple of times he lashed out because he was so mad that (Bracebridge Mayor Graydon Smith) and I didn\u2019t smarten up and just listen to him. And the last couple of meetings have been the most positive. It just feels they\u2019re eager to be part of this change now. And so what\u2019s happened in the last little while is we\u2019ve got a smaller group meeting for the last month to put together the governance and the parameters and the scope, I guess, of a body or group that will actually lead the research and analysis and layout the plan for this transformative change in the way that we deliver healthcare.\u201d<\/p>\n

The taskforce is scheduled to meet again, Friday, May 20, to review the plan proposed by the subgroup and hopefully endorse it, said Aitchison. That plan is similar to a program by the name of Health Links, established to coordinate care for patients with complex needs. See more on the Province’s Community Health Links here<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI call it Health Links on steroids. So Health Links is fairly specific, this would be much broader and part of the pitch to the Ministry of Health to be on board with us and help us with it and do it with us, will be that they\u2019ve got to fund the acute care system fully for the next couple of years while we make this happen.”<\/p>\n

We can\u2019t be in constant crisis mode. So it if it means making sure that MAHC has $2 million extra for the next two years to help make sure we can keep facilities open, that\u2019s what we want. We are confident that we can save enough money in that total healthcare spend in Muskoka to make both the sites viable.
\nAitchison<\/cite><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Ultimately, whether the plan moves forward will depend on the support of the Minister and the various stakeholders. \u201cIn truth, probably the piece that has won us the ear of the Minister is the medical community in North Muskoka all saying that they will participate in primary care reform. This is a really important piece of public policy that the Minister sees as a personal legacy, I think. He really wants to see primary care reform happen.\u201d<\/p>\n

Aitchison said he believes that if Muskoka pulls it off, it can be a model for other areas that find themselves in a similar situation.<\/p>\n

\u201cA year ago February when Graydon Smith and I met with Minister Hoskins he said then that there were about five different hospitals in the province that were adversely affected by the funding formula\u2026 we were told in February past that it\u2019s closer to 20 hospitals now that are facing the same kind of issue. It\u2019s going to grow exponentially. How many towns are there the size of Huntsville in Ontario that have a little hospital and would just never be able to meet the funding formula? It\u2019s going to grow.\u201d<\/p>\n

Aitchison said the fact that everyone is coming together to find a solution is boding well for this area. He anticipates that if the plan to transform healthcare in this community is approved, some of that change will involve a reduction of administration in the various health care organizations that serve this community.<\/p>\n

The medical community has been saying for some time that before both the Bracebridge and Huntsville hospitals were amalgamated, the model that the Huntsville hospital worked on was much more cohesive, noted Aitchison.<\/p>\n

He said in that model, the board of the Huntsville Hospital operated and owned the hospital. It also operated Fairvern Nursing Home, home care and long-term care access, and the ambulance service. “It was a very vertically integrated system where the hospital is in the middle of it\u2026 it was one administration that handled it all. Well, now there\u2019s several administrations that run all those things. That might make sense in a place like the GTA where the volumes make sense and you need to have those administrations, but it doesn\u2019t make sense here. We will never be sustainable in the Province\u2019s funding formula through economies of scale, but we know we could do it through economies of scope.\u201d<\/p>\n

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