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In the end, there was no persuading Huntsville Council on Monday night. The rift between it and the Board of Muskoka Algonquin Healthcare (MAHC) had become so wide that in an unprecedented vote, an overwhelming majority of councillors declared that they had lost faith in the hospital board and called on the Health Minister to immediately dismiss it.<\/p>\n

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Councillors criticized the board for being ambiguous about telling the Minister that there is no community support for a single hospital model and removing that option from the table. They also criticized what they referred to as the board\u2019s lack of transparency, they questioned who the board is really accountable to and pointed at the fact that it had not rescinded the motion it passed in 2015 calling for a single hospital model, despite assurances that it had turned a new chapter.<\/p>\n

Huntsville Deputy Mayor Karin Terziano, who seconded the resolution, said it was “intended as a message that the board\u2019s governance model is in question, their accountability and responsibility to our community is in question, the board has a HIP (Hospital Improvement Plan) agreement that recommends surgery today in Bracebridge and that\u2019s a concern. We\u2019re six years into a process that appears to have been neglectful of this community\u2019s wishes and the lack of trust does not seem to be reversible.\u201d<\/p>\n

Others echoed her sentiment and although the Chair of the board, Evelyn Brown, in an apparent change of stance, told council and those who packed the Algonquin Theatre on Monday night that the board welcomed a unified front with municipal representatives to ask the Province to reexamine its funding formula, one that has resulted in hospital deficits year after year, her assurances seemed for many to be too little too late.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt seems like they\u2019ve come to the end game a little too late for my comfort level,\u201d said Huntsville Councillor Brian Thompson.<\/p>\n

During the meeting with board members and input from the community, Councillor Dan Armour questioned whether MAHC should be expected to be neutral, to which Brown answered, \u201cI should hope so.\u201d Yet, continued Armour, MAHC\u2019s Chief of Staff has indicated that surgeries should be conducted in Bracebridge, a comment that he said does not lead to the building of trust. Brown said she had not heard that comment, \u201cbut I believe that is someone\u2019s opinion. It\u2019s not a statement by the board,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n

In another exchange, Councillor Jonathan Wiebe noted that resources have been expended by the task force appointed by the board to study and recommend a future hospital model for the area but questioned whether their focus shouldn\u2019t be on the funding formula itself. \u201cI\u2019m just worried that all that work is really just a waste of time if the funding isn\u2019t there and we can\u2019t go forward anyway.\u201d<\/p>\n

Brown responded by referring to that task force\u2019s work as one of two streams attached at the hip. She said the redevelopment of the hospital model can take several years \u201cand so as we continue to fight for medium-sized hospitals in towns like ours, we will still be refining a model that hopefully over the next reasonable\u2026 time frame, that the funding formula will be changed because it is being advocated right across the province,\u201d she assured.<\/p>\n

But her response did not seem to allay fears that at least a majority of the hospital board continues to favour the creation of one hospital to replace the existing two.<\/p>\n

Harold Featherston, Chief Executive Diagnostics, Ambulatory Planning with MAHC perhaps put it more succinctly. \u201cThe task force\u2019s responsibility is to pick the model that we think best serves this community in the long-term and then we need to figure out how to make it happen. So that\u2019s where those two conversations continue to intersect, but it\u2019s also where you can help us,\u201d he told council, adding that it is not the task force\u2019s job to fix the funding formula. \u201cThat\u2019s not going to happen with local volunteers in the community. It\u2019s not going to happen with an individual board, it\u2019s not going to happen with a really passionate CEO, much of this happens on the political side of things and you\u2019re much better at this stuff than we are. So, the work you\u2019ve been doing on those fronts, and we\u2019re talking about going together with you to help advocate for that, is going to help set us up for the future way better than we are today and that\u2019s where these two conversations come together.\u201d<\/p>\n

But conspicuously missing from the presentations that evening, especially at a time when MAHC\u2019s financial future is at stake, was the hospital\u2019s Chief Financial Officer. Doppler caught up with Brown who left after the presentations, shortly before council voted on a non-confidence resolution that evening. We asked what had happened to former CFO Tim Smith. Brown said he had retired and been replaced with a new CFO by the name of Terry Shields. Brown said Shields comes to the area from a similar position in Windsor. That community underwent a similar situation when two hospitals amalgamated following a realignment of services. \u201cI think in Windsor it was particularly contentious,\u201d said Brown.<\/p>\n

Shield was hired with very little fanfare, although Brown said a press release had been issued.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, inside the theatre council continued discussing the motion before it. Councillor Nancy Alcock said the hospital board\u2019s lack of transparency continued to be an issue for her and Huntsville Mayor Scott Aitchison made it clear that the results of passing the motion would be uncertain. He said the Province, currently in the midst of an election campaign, might ignore it. They could send an investigator in and ultimately a supervisor or they may respond and tell council to keep working with the board.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt the end of the day that really is the challenge before us. Do we think we have a better chance of effecting the kind of change and outcome we want by passing a resolution calling on the Minister to dismiss the board and then going and dealing directly with the Minister or the Ministry of Health or potentially a designate that they send here?\u201d He said like many councillors he too was hoping for more definitive answers. \u201cSpecifically, I didn\u2019t think it was a difficult thing to commit to at least speaking to the board about rescinding that 2015 motion [calling for a single hospital model],\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

I tell you honestly, I\u2019m a fairly confident individual and I usually don\u2019t have a problem speaking my mind and telling you what I think and sometimes I can be a bit obnoxious about it, but I\u2019m really quite fearful for this whole situation and I worry that if we just continue to just keep talking, there\u2019s a part of me, that cynical part of me that thinks they\u2019re doing it on purpose because they want us to just keep talking until they steal everything away\u2026 Huntsville Mayor Scott Aitchison<\/cite><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

He said whether the municipality has a better chance with the appointment of a supervisor rather than dealing with the hospital board is a question that has kept him up at nights.<\/p>\n

In the end all of council except Councillor Bob Stone who said the task force should be given time to come up with its recommendation and said he had no substantive evidence that the board was acting in an untoward manner, voted in favour of the resolution to dissolve the board and forward the same to the Minister and area municipalities.<\/p>\n

Update<\/strong>: MAHC CEO Natalie Bubela was on vacation during Monday’s meeting, said Brown.<\/p>\n

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