The Chatham-Kent Health Alliance is reflecting on the past year with high hopes for 2020.
CEO Lori Marshall says one of the highlights of 2019 was accomplishing 97% of the organization’s goals and objectives, a list that was complied with input from the community.
“Things that are in there would include the work that we’re doing right now towards our new health information system that will be up and going in June of 2020,” Marshall says. “We have expanded access to care through our Rapid Access to Addictions Medicine Clinic and also we have a Musculoskeletal Rapid Access Clinic, we received a planning grant in particular for the Wallaceburg site that allows us to plan for the future.”
Marshall says 2020 will bring some exciting new projects, including the return of urology services to the Chatham campus in the summer.
“There’s work being done there, not only with respect to recruiting the physicians we need, it’s everything from lead lining of walls in the operating room to working with our Foundation around securing funding for the equipment we need, our lab needs new and different things, it really is across the organization to get ready for that.”
Marshall says the Health Alliance and its partners will be officially launching the new Chatham-Kent Ontario Health Team on April 1st, so there’s lots of work to do to prepare for that as well.
