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Citizens for a Secular Huronia District HospitalCall to Action – July 4, 2007 Huronia District Hospital (HDH) board has voted to recommend to the Huronia District Hospital Corporation that HDH become a Catholic Corporation. We as citizens of North Simcoe want HDH to remain a secular hospital. This call to action is necessary to ensure that the Board of HDH understands the communities’ opinion and to stop the giving away of our hospital. Buy Memberships Before the Huronia District Hospital Corporation can vote on the Catholic recommendation it would have to provide 60 days notice to its corporate members. Any local resident can become a voting member of the corporation by paying a $5 annual fee. Persons who make a $1,000 donation in any one year automatically become a member for life. (Ask the Foundation to confirm your membership through donations, in writing.) To be eligible to vote, a person must be a member 30 days prior to the day of a meeting. A voting membership can be obtained at HDH reception desk. It is important to do this now. Membership is subject to approval by the HDH Board. Object in Writing Outline your personal views in a letter or email to the board, politicians and newspapers to the addresses provided. Rephrase in your own words the following points that concern you on why HDH should remain a secular hospital: • It’s about ACCESS: This takeover would result in the loss of reproductive services (family planning, birth control) now being offered at HDH. It takes away the freedom of choice for our own health care decisions. • It’s about DEMOCRACY: A secular HDH board is responsible to its corporate membership. Instead of being accountable to the community, a Catholic corporation would be subject to the policies of the Church. • It’s NOT about SAVING MONEY: There are negligible financial savings to be made from this change since the North Simcoe Health Alliance (NSHA) already has made most of any possible savings. Under the Catholic model there would still be a senior site manager at PGH as well as a higher paid CEO at HDH. • It’s about LOSSES: For minimal operational savings we will suffer huge losses: loss of services, loss of volunteers, loss of staff, loss of physicians, loss of donations to Foundation, loss of community control of corporation, loss of future partnerships and alliances. • It’s about RISK: We risk becoming subject to Catholic healthcare policies on reproduction, end-of-life care, research, transplants and governance. These policies would result in losing the freedom of choice for our own health care decisions. (Refer: ”Health Ethics Guide”, Catholic Health Association of Canada) Why step back into the past when we have a fine modern secular hospital right now? Get involved. Be an advocate for a secular Huronia District Hospital. CONTACT LIST Huronia District Hospital, 1112 St. Andrew’s Drive, P.O. Box 760, Midland, L4R 4P4 Email: [email protected] Ron Crane, Acting Chair Arnold DeCarli Roger Robitaille Betty Valentine Jim Whittier Darlyn Hughes Carol Lambie – CEO Dr. Herman Jilesen Dr. Martin McNamara Dr. Andrea Jones Local Newspaper Editors: Midland Free Press, 85 King St. Midland L4R 4K3, email: [email protected] Midland Mirror, Editor, 488 Dominion Ave., Midland L4R 1P6 [email protected] Politicians/Local Health Integration Network (LHIN) Jim Downer, Mayor and Councillors, Town of Midland, 575 Dominion Ave, Midland L4R 1R2, email [email protected] Anita Dubeau, Mayor and Councillors, Town of Penetanguishene, P.O, Box 5009, 10 Robert St. West, Penetanguishene, L9M 2G2 , email [email protected] Scott Warnock, Mayor and Councillors, Tay Township P.O. Box 100, Victoria Harbour, L0K 2A0, email: [email protected] Peggy Breckenridge, Mayor and Councillors, Tiny Township, 130 Balm Beach Rd., West, Perkinsfield, L0L 2J0; email [email protected] Tony Guergis, Mayor and Councillors, Springwater Township, 1110 Highway 26, Midhurst, L0L 1X0; email [email protected] Ruben Rosen, Chair, North Simcoe Muskoka, Local Health Integration Network, 210 Memorial Avenue, Suite 127-130, Orillia, L3V 7V1; email [email protected] Garfield Dunlop, M.P.P., Simcoe North, 482 Elizabeth St., Midland, L4R 1Z8 Email: [email protected] Bruce Stanton, M.P., 504 Dominion Ave. Midland, L4R 1P8, email: [email protected] George Smitherman, M.P.P., Queen’s Park, Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care, Hepburn Block, 10th floor, 80 Grosvenor St., Toronto M7A 2C4 Email: [email protected] |