Message from the President and CEO
Every day, we are proud of our hospital’ s continued efforts to provide exceptional care to our patients and their families. There is a growing sense of excitement as we watch the new Patient Tower being built, which will provide a state-of-the-art hospital for our community. As we build a new building for our future, we are also building our hospital’ s structures and processes, to ensure we continue to meet the needs of our patients as they continue to evolve with the ever-present changes in healthcare.
This year our hospital focused on our people, our processes and workflows in getting ready to move into the New Tower in the Fall of 2017.
Our Emergency Department team has done exceptional work this year in creating a new model of care that has decreased wait times by 39 % for patients waiting to move into an inpatient bed. The improvements our hospital has made have been recognized by the Province – in January, JBH was recognized as the most improved Medium-Volume Community Hospital Group. Across the hospital, our staff, physicians and leadership are focused on enhancing care for our patients, highlighted throughout the pages of this report.
We welcomed four new members to our Senior Team: Susan Wannamaker, Senior Vice President; Cheryl Williams, Vice President Patient Care Services and Chief Nursing Executive; Nancy Casselman, Vice President Human Resources; Dee Perera, Vice President Finance & Corporate Support Services and Chief Financial Officer. Their expertise and leadership will contribute to the hospital’ s strategic vision, best practices and processes especially as we prepare to open our new hospital Patient Tower in the coming year.
JBH has had 6 consecutive years of balanced budgets since 2009 / 2010. Despite our best efforts and good fiscal management for the year 2015 / 16, JBH will end the year with a slight deficit of $ 428,000, which represents 0.28 % of total Hospital revenues. JBH, like all hospitals across Ontario, have had several previous years of 0 % Ministry of Health funding increases, however in the same time period, JBH has encountered expense increases yearly of 1.4 % to 1.5 %, accounting for the small deficit. Moving forward, we are anticipating a balanced budget for the upcoming year, as we project an increase in Ministry funding.
It is an exciting time to be a member of our JBH team. Thank you to our staff, physicians and volunteers, who give themselves each and every day to care for our patients and their families. We look forward to the year ahead as we continue to build and support a healthy future for our community.
A message from the Board Chair
The Board of Governors continues to focus on building for the future of the hospital. We come together to guide the leadership of the organization, working together to build long-lasting relationships, focusing on best practices and achieving the common goal of providing an exceptional hospital for our community.
The Board of Governors invested in a full Governance review this year, demonstrating JBH’ s commitment to continuous improvement to achieve Governance excellence based on national best practices. The Governance review has led to new guidelines, efficiencies and innovative practices for our Board to follow in the years to come.
The Board provides oversight and stewardship to all areas of the hospital, including patient care as well as larger corporate projects. This year, the Board has focused on people and process through the lens of the Redevelopment Project and Operational Readiness. We strive to ensure our staff, physicians, patients and community, will provide and receive the best care possible. We acknowledge the countless hours that our staff are investing to ensure we are ready when the new Patient Tower opens.
In the fall, our Board of Governors, Senior Leadership Team, Medical Advisory Committee and Medical Staff Association came together to discuss the future, and the outcome was the formation of“ One Team,” whose role is to provide a collaborative approach to leadership, direction and oversight. The first initiative of“ One Team” is to assist with the development of a new 2016 strategic plan for JBH.
Together through the“ One Team’ s” leadership, the Board and participation from our staff, partners, patients and community members, we have started the process of developing the new strategic plan which will provide the road map for the hospital for the next three years. This work is expected to be completed in the fall of 2016.
The Board partnering with the Auxiliary were proud to introduce the first annual Family and Friends Picnic, held last September at Confederation Park. There was a barbeque and family activities that encouraged all members of the JBH team and their families to enjoy time together outside of the work environment. I look forward to seeing familiar faces at the second picnic this summer.
After nine years on the Board, two years as Chair, I am concluding my term and stepping down from the position of Board Chair. I am proud of the contributions of the Board to the future of our hospital, especially as we enter the final stages of building our new Patient Tower. I welcome Kathryn Osborne as the incoming Board Chair, who acted as our Vice Chair this year. Thank you to my fellow colleagues on the Board for your dedication, hard work and support – it has been a privilege to work alongside you all.
Eric Vandewall Don Dalicandro
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