An act to provide for the integration of the local system for the delivery of health services.

Bill 36 is moving ahead to Third Reading. AHP Canada has sent a letter to have on record our thanks for the deletion of the financial reporting requirement and to table ongoing concerns regarding transfer of charitable property. The letter requests a meeting to be part of the dialogue on the development of the policy framework for integration.

• Read letter to Ron Sapsford, DM and Alison Pilla, ADM, Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care,
  regarding Bill 36, February 23, 2006 (PDF format)

• Read letter to Mario G. Racco, MPP, Chair, Standing Committee on Social Policy,
  February 8, 2006 (PDF format)

Legislative initiatives dealing with privacy and protection of health information have a direct impact upon our members and their ability to assist and advance the fundraising activities of the institutions they serve. Increasingly, fundraising initiatives are critical in supporting our hospitals to facilitate the massive restructuring mandated by the provincial government. This restructuring is intended to promote better coordination of care and to enhance and sustain quality health care in the Ontario health system.

According to the Ontario Hospital Association, the capital cost required to redevelop and restructure provincial hospitals ranges anywhere from six to seven billion dollars. To date, the Ministry of Health has designated only $2.4 billion.

As currently written, the proposed privacy rules under the draft Ontario Privacy of Personal Information Act – while well intentioned – could hinder the capability of hospitals and their fundraising arms to support the provincial government’s health care reforms. Fundraising is a crucial component to health reform in Ontario.

The legislation should acknowledge and address the unique role of the charitable sector and the unique needs that charities have in their funding requirements.

Central to these efforts are grateful patients, and the ability of hospital fundraisers to reach out to these patients and their families in the hope they will provide a gift. Once established, hospitals need the ability to cultivate and maintain these relationships, and in most cases donors appreciate this relationship.

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The role of Philanthropy and Voluntarism in the future of the Canadian health care system is addressed in Pearl Veenema's correspondence to Honorary Ray Romanow, Q.L., Commissioner on the Future of Health care, at the AHP conference 2002. (PDFs require Adobe Acrobat Reader)

• Response
• Presentation to Romanow Commission

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