{"id":65702,"date":"2019-04-28T15:05:14","date_gmt":"2019-04-28T19:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huntsville.dopperonline.ca\/?p=65702"},"modified":"2019-04-28T15:05:14","modified_gmt":"2019-04-28T19:05:14","slug":"listen-up-its-time-to-let-residents-decide-who-will-represent-them-on-the-hospital-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/listen-up-its-time-to-let-residents-decide-who-will-represent-them-on-the-hospital-board\/","title":{"rendered":"Listen Up! It’s time to let residents decide who will represent them on the hospital board"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Hugh Mackenzie
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The cynic in me<\/strong><\/p>\n

I guess I am the resident cynic when it comes to the hospital situation in Muskoka. Some have even called me paranoid in that regard. I will accept that, if I turn out to be wrong. Nothing would make me happier. But sadly, I am still from Missouri when it comes to believing that the movers and shakers at Muskoka Algonquin Healthcare (MAHC) are truly dedicated to two acute-care hospitals in Muskoka, perhaps with different services, but of equal strength and neither site subordinate to the other. My gut tells me that, first, that is impossible to achieve, and, second, that their number one goal is still to build a new hospital facility in Bracebridge and Huntsville will get what\u2019s left over. Inevitably, that will, in time, lead to a single-site, acute-care hospital in Muskoka.<\/p>\n

I am well aware that MAHC is working hard to assure the community that the goal is two acute-care facilities in Muskoka, but a careful review of the data that the Capital Plan Development Task Force has been producing shows that there are serious and perhaps insurmountable financial challenges ahead. I continue to fear that the time will come when they shake their collective heads and say, “Oh well, we tried, but we just can\u2019t make two fully acute care hospitals work.”<\/p>\n

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You may recall that a couple of years ago there was a proposal on the table for two hospitals. Site A would be a fully acute-care hospital and site B would revert to ambulatory and long-term care, with both sites having emergency facilities. That was taken off the table. But my fear is that when we get down to the short strokes, especially with the much- needed new facility for Fairvern going full speed ahead on the Huntsville Hospital site, that\u2019s exactly where we will end up. And cynic or not, in spite of the optics, that is where I believe at least some of the members of the MAHC board and staff, have always intended to end up.<\/p>\n

I cannot forget that a year or so ago, Phil Matthews, who is now chair of the board at MAHC, appeared before Muskoka District Council to ask for a huge bundle of money to be put aside for one new hospital facility. <\/strong>We know that won\u2019t be Huntsville. And now, there is another sign that disturbs me and that is the recent announcement by Mr. Matthews of an appointment of a new chief of staff.<\/p>\n

There has been an acting chief of staff at MAHC for the past two years, who has said there should be only one door for surgery in Muskoka and that door is Bracebridge. Shortly after that appointment, Dr. Roy Kirkpatrick, a Huntsville surgeon, applied for the permanent position as chief of staff. He is eminently qualified with credentials and experience coming out his ears. He has been acclaimed for his work both locally and internationally. MAHC kept him on the hook for more than a year and then turned him down flat<\/a><\/span>. In my view it was because he did not fit the board\u2019s profile. He is not a “yes” man.<\/p>\n

Now the new chief of staff is to be Dr. Khaled Abdel-Razek<\/a><\/span>. He is an obstetrician and gynaecologist who lives and practices in Orillia. My understanding is he intends to continue to live in Orillia and will continue as surgical program medical director for Soldiers’ Memorial Hospital. He was also granted privileges at MAHC in 2013, working primarily out of Bracebridge when he is in Muskoka. Dr. Abdel-Razek is certainly a highly qualified physician, but it is hard to believe that after two years, MAHC could not have found a suitable candidate for the $150,000 appointment as chief of staff who actually lives and practices full time in our catchment area of Muskoka and East Parry Sound. It begs the question why?<\/p>\n

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The cynic in me remembers previous efforts to move obstetrics out of Huntsville and causes me to ask if, with an obstetrician as part of the senior MAHC staff, we are now going to hear that there should be only one door for obstetrics in Muskoka? And the really cynical part of me wonders if that will require more obstetric and surgical space that cannot be accommodated at the current Bracebridge hospital site and, hence, a new facility there.<\/p>\n

I know my Bracebridge friends get frustrated with me when I write like this. Believe me, I want them to have the best hospital facility possible there. I just do not want to see it happen at the expense of Huntsville, where not only our health care would be compromised but also our economy. And I do believe there are people currently at MAHC who would be quite prepared to allow that to happen.<\/p>\n

The real problem, as I see it, is the MAHC board which, in my view, is incestuous. It effectively appoints itself, kicks out those that do not walk the party line and even tightly controls who is entitled to vote at an annual meeting. There is no effective input from the community at-large and no way to ensure that the Board is fairly balanced. The movers and shakers at MAHC call the shots. I believe it is time to open the whole process up so that Huntsville, Bracebridge and East Parry Sound residents decide who will represent them on the hospital board and not a closed group of individuals with their own agenda.<\/p>\n

Doug Ford has shown that he can make changes with the stroke of a pen. Maybe someone should talk to him.<\/p>\n

Hugh Mackenzie<\/p>\n

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