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As many will know by now, Muskoka made the front page of the Toronto Star this past week. The headline read, \u201cBattle brews in Muskoka over new hospitals.\u201d\u00a0 The article, in my view, is heavily biased toward Bracebridge, most likely generated by hospital activists in that community. I am not being critical of these folks. They are doing what they believe to be in the best interests of their community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, the article itself, written by Star Reporter Rob Ferguson, clearly leaves the impression that the plan for two hospital sites in Muskoka benefits Huntsville and penalizes Bracebridge. It is slanted to make people believe that their community got a raw deal.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although a number of South Muskoka people were quoted in this article, including physicians and the Mayor of Bracebridge, reciprocal comments from political and medical folks in Huntsville were nowhere to be seen. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The nub of the issue for people in South Muskoka is that under this plan, the Bracebridge hospital has been reduced to 36 beds, and the Huntsville site has been increased to 139 beds. The Toronto Star story referred to this as the \u201cbattle of the beds.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But in today\u2019s world of hospital care, \u201cmine is bigger than yours\u201d in relation to beds is not the critical factor in determining the importance of a hospital site. Rather, it is based on the critical services a hospital provides and the number of beds required for these specific services. The goal is to get people out of the hospital as quickly and efficiently as possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Under the current revised MAHC proposal, both sites will double their emergency departments and provide obstetric care. The Bracebridge site will also perform all day surgeries and most outpatient exams, such as non-urgent imaging. Under this plan, Bracebridge would be the busier site on a day-to-day basis but have less responsibility for longer-term care. Far more people will be travelling from North Muskoka and East Parry Sound to Bracebridge for hospital procedures than the other way around.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Under the current plan, the Huntsville site of Muskoka Algonquin Health Care will emphasize longer-term care, including major surgery, stroke recovery, and specialized rehabilitation. It will also provide reactivation care to ensure patients who leave the hospital are equipped to transition home.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Recognizing that two hospitals within twenty-five miles of each other cannot offer all the same services, given the reality of current economic dynamics, MAHC’s proposal, with the exception of emergency care, has focused on state-of-the-art ambulatory hospital care in Bracebridge and those services that require more extensive in-hospital care in Huntsville, with equal state-of-the-art procedures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, the issue of hospital beds has become the focus of discontent in South Muskoka. They believe that the Bracebridge hospital site will get the short end of the deal under MAHC’s current plan because of the reduction in beds. Whether that is accurate or not, it has rallied the community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Letters have flowed back and forth, petitions have been organized, media lobbied, demonstrations have been encouraged, and woeful, if not threatening, messages have been sent both to MAHC and Queen\u2019s Park.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Community notables like former NDP Muskoka MPP Dan Waters and Bracebridge Town Crier Bruce Kruger are stirring the water and trying to convince South Muskoka that they have been duped. Do I agree with them? No.\u00a0Do I blame them? Again no. They are standing up for what they believe is right for their community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That, then, leads me to the major question I have for those reading this article. What exactly is Huntsville doing to protect the interests of North Muskoka when it comes to hospital care here? In my view, the silence has been deafening. All I have really heard is various versions of \u2018don\u2019t worry, be happy\u2019. Everything is going to be alright.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have a great deal of respect for Mayor Nancy Alcock. I have been in her shoes, and I know she cannot be all things to all people. But I also have learned the hard way that it is the squeaky wheel that gets the grease, and as far as I can see, Bracebridge is buying grease by the gallon, and we have none.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In my view, the mayor and her council need to take more leadership on this issue. A few months ago, the mayor assured us that coordinated talks were going on with MAHC and District politicians and that everything was under control. That may be. But this is now. South Muskoka is in full throttle in their quest to derail the current recommendations of MAHC. The changes that have been made by MAHC have not satisfied them. That has had to have had an effect on both MAHC and, more importantly, on the provincial government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00a0There is, and there will continue to be, tremendous pressure on both bodies to provide more services to the Bracebridge site. With the financial structure that is available, this can only be accomplished by reducing services in Huntsville.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have often said that the first rule of politics is to know how to count. With the possibility now that an election in Ontario could be called as early as next year, you can bet your boots that there are people inside the Ford government who are counting votes when considering how to resolve the hospital issue in Muskoka. This is especially so when the Green Party did so well here in the last provincial election, and their candidate is now the Deputy Leader of that political party.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Again, the question must be asked: What is being done in Huntsville to ensure that North Muskoka\u2019s voice is heard when decisions are finalized? Perhaps we don\u2019t need the rallies, placards, and petitions that we see elsewhere, and certainly, they will do little good after the fact.\u00a0But we do need leadership from our elected politicians, and we need to know what is being done to protect Huntsville\u2019s interests in relation to our hospital.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Has there been a meeting between the Town and MAHC? If so, what assurances have been received? Are we part of the review process that MAHC is now going through? Has our mayor requested a meeting with the Minister of Health? I can assure her that there are others who are bending her ear with options that include reverting to a single-site hospital if Muskoka can\u2019t get its act together. Has the Town considered engaging a government relations professional to make our case at Queen\u2019s Park? Will there be a response to the one-sided article in the Toronto Star?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some of this may be taking place, but if it is, we are not aware of it, and we should be. I believe the Town now has a communications officer. Why can\u2019t they communicate? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Perhaps we can gain some points with MAHC and the Province by being quiet and compliant. Still, it is too big a risk to take unless the work has been done to guarantee that Huntsville\u2019s hospital interests have been protected and that we will not be worse off than MAHC contemplated when they tabled their proposals.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We need to know that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Don\u2019t worry, be happy just doesn\u2019t cut it anymore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hugh Mackenzie <\/p>\n\n\n

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Hugh Mackenzie has held elected office as a trustee on the Muskoka Board of Education, a Huntsville councillor, a District councillor, and mayor of Huntsville. He has also served as chairman of the District of Muskoka and as chief of staff to former premier of Ontario, Frank Miller.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hugh has also served on a number of provincial, federal and local boards, including chair of the Ontario Health Disciplines Board, vice-chair of the Ontario Family Health Network, vice-chair of the Ontario Election Finance Commission, and board member of Roy Thomson Hall, the National Theatre School of Canada, and the Anglican Church of Canada. Locally, he has served as president of the Huntsville Rotary Club, chair of Huntsville District Memorial Hospital, chair of the Huntsville Hospital Foundation, president of Huntsville Festival of the Arts, and board member of Community Living Huntsville.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In business, Hugh Mackenzie has a background in radio and newspaper publishing. He was also a founding partner and CEO of Enterprise Canada, a national public affairs and strategic communications firm established in 1986.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Currently, Hugh is president of C3 Digital Media Inc., the parent company of Doppler Online, and he enjoys writing commentary for Huntsville Doppler.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n

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