General News

The Board of Directors is pleased to announce the appointment of Cheryl Harrison as President and Chief Executive Officer at Muskoka Algonquin Healthcare (MAHC) effective May 30, 2022.

As pandemic-related provincial restrictions are eased across Ontario, Muskoka Algonquin Healthcare (MAHC) is moving to expand limited visitation for inpatients and removing the requirement for proof of vaccination against COVID-19.

Effective Monday, March 7, admitted inpatients may receive two (2) visitors each day who are over the age of 18 during visiting hours of 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., while continuing to adhere to strict visiting requirements. 

Earlier this week, Muskoka Algonquin Healthcare (MAHC) gradually started to resume elective and non-urgent surgeries and procedures that were postponed as per government direction in early January.

The gradual and cautious resumption of non-urgent surgical activity at MAHC follows the provincial lifting of Directive #2, which instructed hospitals to pause non-urgent surgical procedures in response to growing COVID-19 case counts and hospitalizations across the province to ensure critical care capacity and human resources were available to care for hospitalized patients.

Muskoka Algonquin Healthcare (MAHC), in consultation with the Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit, has declared the COVID-19 outbreak on South Wing at Huntsville District Memorial Hospital (HDMH) Site over.

The outbreak lasted a total of 10 days with only the initial one patient case and one staff case attributed to the outbreak.

Muskoka Algonquin Healthcare (MAHC), in consultation with the Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit, has declared a COVID-19 outbreak over at the South Muskoka Memorial Hospital (SMMH) Site.

The outbreak, originally declared on January 26, was lifted on February 7 and included four patient cases and two staff cases in total.

Visiting to South Wing at the Huntsville District Memorial Hospital (HDMH) Site has been suspended following a COVID-19 outbreak.

One patient and one staff member on South Wing at the HDMH Site have tested positive for COVID-19 and the Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit has placed South Wing under unit-specific COVID-19 outbreak status.

Outbreak status has been declared in consultation with the Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit after four patients and one staff member on a medical inpatient unit at the South Muskoka Memorial Hospital (SMMH) Site tested positive for COVID-19.

The COVID-positive patients along with high-risk contact patients have been placed in isolation and only those patients at SMMH are not permitted to have visitors.

Muskoka Algonquin Healthcare (MAHC), in consultation with the Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit, has declared the COVID-19 outbreak on South Wing at Huntsville District Memorial Hospital (HDMH) Site over.

The outbreak lasted a total of 11 days, and through outbreak management protocols including testing, seven patient cases and one staff case were attributed to the outbreak in total.

Muskoka Algonquin Healthcare is pleased to introduce the first babies born in 2022, arriving on the same day at each of our hospital sites.

At the South Muskoka Memorial Hospital Site, baby Andy Couling was born at 5:13 a.m. on Saturday, January 8, 2022 to first-time parents Melissa Switzer and Matt Couling of Gravenhurst. Andy arrived at 8 pounds, 6 ounces.

As directed by the Ontario government, to preserve bed capacity and maintain safe staffing levels, Muskoka Algonquin Healthcare (MAHC) is temporarily postponing elective/non-urgent surgeries and procedures, and some non-urgent, scheduled outpatient procedures and clinic appointments.

MAHC, like many other Ontario hospitals, is responding to an Ontario Health requirement from earlier this week to identify existing services that can safely be reduced, suspended or relocated in order to preserve core acute care functions during the pandemic.