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Strategic Visioning: Governance

Governance - reflects an ultimate accountability for strategic decision making affecting the entire organization.
  • Submission to the CNA National Expert Commission on Transforming the Health-Care System - 2011
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    RNAO Recommendations to the CNA National Expert Commission on Transforming the Health-Care System. 
     
  • Vision 2020: Raising the Bar in Ontarios Healthcare system - Final - 2011
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    Vision 2020 is about delivering care that is focused on the patient; that is, putting them at the centre of all we do. It is about meeting many of the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual needs of individuals of all ages in one place – their own family practice. It is about family physicians and other providers collaborating and exchanging knowledge and expertise to deliver excellent care for all. It is about educating the world’s best family doctors and their practice teams. It is about using valuable healthcare dollars wisely. 
     
  • Enhancing the Public Health Human Resource Infrastructure in Canada - 2010
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    Presentation by the Canadian Public Health Association to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Health.
     
    There has been an active discourse in Canada over the past 45 years about the development and enhancement of the country’s health human resources. Recent reports have endorsed an enhanced health human resource planning strategy for public health. One of the critical elements of a strong, sustainable and effective public health system is the specialized professionals and practitioners who prevent disease and injury, and promote and protect the health of all Canadians. The country’s public health workforce also needs to be able to respond to emergency situations and simultaneous multiple public health events. A failure to invest in maintaining a surge capacity will result in a workforce that is under-resourced between crises, stretched to the breaking point during crises, and unable to respond to deferred or delayed public health needs after a crisis. 
     
     
  • Health Care Governance In Volatile Economic Times - 2009
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    As part of its mandate to promote and foster excellence in health care governance, the Ontario Hospital Association (OHA), in partnership with Deloitte, is pleased to offer Health Care Governance in Volatile Economic Times: Don’t Waste a Crisis. Following participation at the OHA’s May 2009 conference, The Changing Financial Landscape – Governing in Tough Times, Deloitte interviewed a number of health care board members from across Ontario, as well as recognized experts in health care governance. In all cases, one message stayed constant: while the private sector is challenged by unprecedented economic uncertainty, hospitals, community services and other health care providers in the province have a long history of operating in difficult economic circumstances.
     
    However, the gravity of today’s economic situation is truly unprecedented. While health care organizations may be familiar with operating in tough times, the long-lasting impact of today’s deficits is an entirely new challenge. Therefore, because it is so difficult to determine the many possible ripple effects of today’s economic downturn, this document has been designed to include questions board members should ask at any time, for any fiscal challenge.
     
    Recognizing the uniqueness of all health care provider organizations, this resource allows users to customize the information according to their own specific needs and realities. The Key Questions to Ask seeks to assist board members fulfill their fiduciary duties as directors on hospital boards and representatives of their communities.