Accountability & Performance
Waypoint Centre for Mental Health Care believes safety is of utmost importance. We value our role in the community and understand our responsibilities as a public hospital to be transparent and accountable to our patients, their families, staff, stakeholders and the communities we serve. Waypoint supports the Ministry of Health and Long Term Care's commitment to provide regular reports to the public.
Waypoint Quality Improvement Plan
Quality improvement is an ongoing priority that helps us continually find new and better ways of doing things so that we can enhance care for patients, increase satisfaction and achieve even better clinical outcomes.
Our Quality Improvement Plan, or QIP, is a new requirement of the Excellent Care for All Act. It is one tool that we are using to help us document and review our current performance in a variety of areas. With this plan, we will be able to clearly see our targeted areas for improvement and chart our progress.
The Excellent Care for All Act was passed by the Ontario Government in June 2010 and is legislation that will help support hospitals to further improve the quality and safety of care we provide.
Quality Improvement Plans provide a meaningful way for Waypoint Centre for Mental Health Care to clearly articulate our accountability to our community, patients and staff. Our QIP is focused on creating a positive patient experience and delivering high quality health care and is only one of the ways we are working to improve our patients' experiences.
Our QIP is made up of two parts, both of which are publically available by clicking on the following links:
2011-12 Quality Improvement Plan
A document that provides a brief overview of our Quality Improvement Plan, highlighting Waypoint's top priorities for the year.
Improvement Targets and Initiatives
A spreadsheet that includes our improvement targets and initiatives. The spreadsheet includes a core set of indicators that all similar hospitals across the province are working on.
All hospitals must report to the Ontario Health Quality Council on a series of core indicators to support province-wide comparisons. The core indicators that apply to our hospital are reflected in our QIP.
Broader Public Sector Accountabiilty Act
In 2010, the Government passed the Broader Public Sector Accountability Act which requires hospitals to publicly post any expense claims made by hospital executives and Board Members, effective Nov. 30, 2011.
Our hopsital has absolutely embraced this requirement. We believe that it is a reasonable way to promote public confidence in our management of taxpayer money, and it is consitent with the policies that already apply to senior leaders in government and other broader sector organizations.
Below you will find links not only to our hospital executive and Board Member expense claims, but also all of our policies pertaining to expense claims. Please click on the links to view.
Hospital Executive and Board Member Expense Reporting
Hospitality Policy
Expenses While Travelling on Hospital Business Policy
Consultants and Contractor Expense Policy
Board/Committee Member Expense Policy
Executive Compensation
Please follow the links below to view details on our executive compensation program.
Executive Contracts Background Document
Summary of Working Conditions Non-Union
Management / Non-Union Coverage Summary
Individual contracts can be found by clicking the links below
Carol Lambie - President and CEO
Dr. Russel Fleming - Psychiatrist-in-Chief
Janet Harris - Executive Vice-President, Clinical Services and Chief Nursing Executive
Michelle Quealey - Vice-President, Human Resources and Organizational Development
Lorraine Smith - Vice-President, Corporate Services
Dr. Howard Barbaree - Vice-President, Research and Academics
Deborah Duncan - Vice-President, Regional Programs
Dr. Brian Jones - Vice-President, Provincial Programs
Rob Desroches - Director, Patient/Client Flow