The Chatham-Kent Health Alliance is making rural health a priority.
Supervisor Rob Devitt says the Rural Health Advisory Committee will listen to the concerns of rural residents, and bring them back to the board.
The committee is co-chaired by a doctor and CEO Lori Marshall, and Devitt says this was done on purpose.
“The reason I have our rural medicine made co chair with Lori is that if the CEO, and I have no thought that this will happen under Lori. Lori is doing an outstanding job. But if at some point in the future there was a different CEO that was trying to mute the feedback and advice from the committee from going to the board, there’s a release valve and that’s the co-chair. Who could bring the concerns forward through the medical advisory chief of staff which reports directly to the board, separate from the CEO
Devitt will be leaving the Alliance in the coming months once the new board has been formed.
