2016-06-30-AMGH Employee Handbook

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HOSPITAL PROFILE Alexandra Marine and General Hospital (AMGH) provides health care services in Huron County to the community of Goderich and several surrounding municipalities representing a catchment area of approximately of 25,000 people. The AMGH is a full service community hospital providing on-call coverage for internal medicine, general surgery, diagnostic imaging, anaesthesia, and obstetrics. In addition, the Emergency Department has a physician on duty twenty-four hours a day, seven days per week. AMGH is the largest provider of hospital services in Huron County which includes the delivery of primary care, a range of secondary level acute and complex continuing care to its broad catchment population. The Hospital is an active treatment facility operated under the direction of a twelve member Board of Directors. AMGH currently operates forty-two (42) beds providing acute, long-term, psychiatric, emergency and ambulatory care and is operating under a four-year accreditation award granted in 2013. It is a Schedule 1 Facility with a twenty bed inpatient psychiatric unit that provides care for all of Huron County as well as providing services for some bordering communities in Bruce, Grey and Perth Counties. The Hospital also offers full-time community psychiatric outpatient centers for the Towns of Goderich, Clinton, Seaforth and Wingham. In addition to these community programs, the Hospital provides the Regional Intensive Case Management Program serving mentally ill patients throughout Huron and Perth Counties. Medical practitioners on active staff include two general surgeons, four psychiatrists, one internist, one OB/GYN and thirteen family doctors. Four general practitioner anaesthetists provide anaesthesia coverage. These physicians, supported by visiting specialists primarily from London and Stratford, provide services for a wide range of outpatient clinics including gastroenterology, general surgery, gerontology, gynaecology, internal medicine/cardiology, neurology, obstetrics, orthopaedics, paediatrics, and respirology/allergy. Three general practitioner obstetricians provide obstetrical service. Other community services provided at AMGH include cardiology investigations, a wide range of diagnostic imaging procedures, laboratory, diabetic education, nutrition, occupational therapy, physiotherapy, speech and language pathology, pulmonary function testing, Holter, stress testing, ECG, and social work. An active ambulatory care program is maintained and includes day surgery and outpatient paediatrics. Those patients in need of more specialized care and treatment are primarily referred to the tertiary care facilities in London. The Board at Alexandra Marine and General Hospital is committed to patient safety and in fostering a safe environment for patients and their families. In the interest of maintaining its high quality of care and its practice of continuous improvement, the Board wants unsafe conditions and practices eliminated. To that end, the Board has identified patient safety as one of its strategic directions with objectives and an action plan to ensure its implementation. The Hospital employs approximately 250 staff (part and full-time) and has an operating budget of approximately $19.5 million. 8
Alexandra Marine and General Hospital Executive Leadership Team: Vacant, Chief Executive Officer Samantha Marsh, Chief Nursing Executive / Vice President Clinical Services Jimmy Trieu, Chief Information Officer / Vice President Corporate Services Sulav Pant, Director of Finance /Health Records Peggy Byrne-Carter, Human Resources Advisor Board of Directors Alexandra Marine and General Hospital's Board of Directors includes a number of dedicated community residents. These people volunteer their time to provide governance to the hospital’s activities, work with the health partners in our communities, and offer expertise in a number of areas to support the hospital. Pictured left to right Back Row: Matthew Armstrong, Myles Murdock, Dr .Julie Moore, Dennis Schmidt, Glen McNeil, Dr .Dan Noel, Pamela Somers, Peter Shephard, Allan Ball, Front Row: Mike Niglas, Jolene Duncan, Barb Major-McEwan (Board Chair), Karen Davis, Richard Bedard and Rowland Howe. 9
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