LHIN endorses single CKHA board

File photo

The Erie-St. Clair LHIN is endorsing the proposed single board structure for the Chatham-Kent Health Alliance.

The LHIN Board put their unanimous support behind the plan, during a special meeting on Thursday in Chatham, published reports indicate.

Reports say Sheldon Parsons, the former Sydenham District Hospital Board chair, had his idea to create a community advisory panel as part of the governance structure shot down by the LHIN board as well.

Calling it the beginning of the “last chapter” of his time at the Chatham-Kent Health Alliance, provincially appointed supervisor Rob Devitt unveiled his plans last month for creating the new single hospital corporation, along with embedding a two-site vision in its corporate documents.

Devitt said his proposed corporate governance structure will mirror the long-standing integration of all other aspects of the Alliance.

He said the structure will feature the new hospital corporation governing both the Chatham and Wallaceburg hospital sites with a single board of directors.

“A mistake in the boardroom, will show up at the bedside,” Devitt told the Sydenham Current.

“Thankfully in Chatham-Kent, notwithstanding all the turmoil that has happened around the board room, leading up to the investigator and then the supervisor, thankfully front line staff and physicians kept things together, but it is that important that we get it right.”

Devitt said the new board will feature 12 people, including one each from every Municipal ward in Chatham-Kent, one First Nations representative, and five other members at large.

“The bar for being on the board will be high,” Devitt said during a press conference.

The new board will be chosen by himself, with the help of an executive search firm and committe, Devitt said.

The single board proposal still needs approval from the Ministry of Health.

- Advertisment -