Board of Directors
The Muskoka Algonquin Healthcare Board of Directors is a 12-member volunteer body that plays a key leadership role in setting policies and visioning for the hospital and the delivery of health care in the communities that we serve.
The Board of Directors governs Muskoka Algonquin Healthcare through the direction and supervision of the business and affairs of the corporation in accordance with its articles of incorporation, its bylaws, vision, mission and values, governance policies and applicable laws and regulations. The role of the Board of Directors is to ensure that the hospital is well managed and does so by fulfilling the following roles and responsibilities:
Roles
Policy Formulation:
Establish policies to provide guidance to those empowered with the responsibility to lead and manage MAHC operations.
Decision-Making:
On matters that specifically require Board approval, choose from alternatives that are consistent with Board policies and that advance the goals of MAHC.
Oversight:
Monitor and assess organizational processes and outcomes.
Responsibilities
Contribute to the Development of and Approval of the Strategic Direction
Provide for Excellent Management
Ensure Program Quality and Effectiveness
Ensure Financial Viability
Ensure Board Effectiveness
Foster Relationships
Meet the Board
MAHC is governed by a 17-member Board of Directors. Twelve (12) directors are elected on a rotational basis for three-year terms by the Members of the Corporation. The remaining five positions are non-voting, ex-officio positions on the Board of Directors. To learn more about each Elected Director click below.
The remaining five positions are the following non-voting, ex-officio positions on the Board of Directors:
- President & Chief Executive Officer: Cheryl Harrison
- Chief of Staff: Dr. Khaled Abdel-Razek
- President of the Credentialed Staff: Dr. Joe Gleeson
- Vice-President of the Credentialed Staff: Dr. Helen Dempster
- Chief Nursing Executive: Diane George
To contact the Board Chair, please send your request to:
Dave Uffelmann, Chair - Board of Directors
Muskoka Algonquin Healthcare
100 Frank Miller Drive
Huntsville, ON P1H 1H7
Telephone: 705-789-2311, ext. 2881
Fax: 705-789-0557
or
Tammy Tkachuk, Executive Assistant to the President & CEO and Board Liaison
Muskoka Algonquin Healthcare
100 Frank Miller Drive
Huntsville, ON P1H 1H7
Telephone: 705-789-2311, ext. 2342
Fax: 705-789-0557
Contact the Board
To contact the Board Chair, please send your request to:
Dave Uffelmann, Chair - Board of Directors
Muskoka Algonquin Healthcare
100 Frank Miller Drive
Huntsville, ON P1H 1H7
Telephone: 705-789-2311, ext. 2881
Fax: 705-789-0557
or
Tammy Tkachuk, Executive Assistant to the President & CEO and Board Liaison
Muskoka Algonquin Healthcare
100 Frank Miller Drive
Huntsville, ON P1H 1H7
Telephone: 705-789-2311, ext. 2342
Fax: 705-789-0557
Board Structure
In determining the structure, responsibilities and number of Standing Committees, the Board of Directors considers the following principles:
- The number and type of committees are designed to support, the Board in fulfilling its responsibilities and maximizes the participation of individual Directors.
- The Board as a whole has "ownership" of the work that is done on its behalf by committees, task groups, etc.
- The Board as a whole determines its priorities and how its business will be done by developing a policy on respective roles and relationship of the Board and its Standing Committees, a policy on Terms of Reference and membership of all Standing and Ad Hoc Committees, a set of annual goals/priorities for the Board and committees.
- Responsibility for Standing Committee participation should be balanced among all members of the Board. All Standing Committee members shall be appointed for 1 year, unless specified in this Governance Plan
- Clear Standing Committee goals/work plans for prior approval of the Board.
- Periodic review of Standing and Ad Hoc Committees.
The majority of committee members on all Standing Committees shall be elected directors. - Ad Hoc Committees would be appointed and disbanded by the Board from time to time as need dictates.
The basic purpose for the establishment of a Standing Committee is for the committee to do the work that the Board of Directors does not have the time to examine in sufficient detail. The detailed Standing Committee Composition for the 2024-25 Board of Directors provides a complete listing of all members of each Board Standing Committee.
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