August 19, 2008
St. Peter’s Hospital and Hamilton Health Sciences are now one organization
It’s official – The Letters Patent of Amalgamation confirming the agreement between St. Peter’s Hospital and Hamilton Health Sciences have been approved by the Ministry of Government Services. This means that the two hospitals now continue as one organization.
In April, the Boards of Directors of St. Peter's Hospital and Hamilton Health Sciences both voted unanimously in favour of the amalgamation. This announcement was made after many months of deliberation and due diligence led by a steering committee made up of representatives from both Boards. The Letters Patent fulfill the formal legal requirements for amalgamation.
“Enhancing Lives is what we do best at St. Peter’s,” says Donna Cripps, President of St. Peter’s Hospital. “We are excited by the opportunity to reach beyond our walls so that we can share our knowledge and expertise with even more individuals.”
For our community, our patients, and our staff, it is business as usual. The full amalgamation of the two organizations will take place gradually over time while staff from both hospitals work together to operationalize the integration.
“The need for specialized and focused care for seniors and those with chronic illness is growing,” says Murray Martin, President and CEO of Hamilton Health Sciences. “We are looking forward to building on our existing programs and services together so that our community can have access to the best care possible.”
Media Contact:
Roxanne Kantzavelos
905-521-2100 ext. 73058
Hamilton Health Sciences
Lillian Badzioch
905-777-3837 ext. 12372
St. Peter’s Hospital
June 25, 2008
He Speaks, They Listen - Dr. Willie Molly gives a talk on Alzheimer’s disease
No matter what the topic, people listen to what Dr. Molloy has to say. He is the first speaker of the 2008 Successful Aging Speakers’ Series presented by St. Peter’s and the Hamilton Council on Aging. In light of June being Seniors’ Month, he speaks today about new treatments for Alzheimer’s disease at St. Peter’s Residence at Chedoke.
Dr. Molloy’s talk on Alzheimer’s covers the latest information on current medications and approaches to care, new emerging treatments and promising ideas being researched. Dr. Molloy’s session today has drawn the largest crowd in the Speakers’ Series to date.
Dr. Molloy is an internationally respected geriatrician and a highly regarded authority on seniors’ issues and Alzheimer’s disease. As the first St. Peter’s McMaster Chair in Aging within St. Peter’s Centre for Studies in Aging at St. Peter’s Hospital, he is making unparalleled progress in the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of Alzheimer’s disease.
Dr. Molloy is the Director of the Regional Geriatric Program central, a consultant geriatrician and a Professor of Medicine at the Faculty of Health Sciences, McMaster University. He has published over 100 peer-reviewed articles and several books including Let Me Decide which is setting the standard for advanced directives nationally.
St. Peter’s includes a 250 bed complex care hospital and a 210 bed long term care residence. St. Peter’s also manages the complex care beds located at St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton. St. Peter’s is committed to research and education in an effort to further enhance care at the bedside. Through St. Peter’s Centre for Studies in aging, affiliations with McMaster University and Mohawk College, and in partnership with other health care providers, St. Peter’s supports opportunities for health professionals, researchers, educators and students to connect.
Media Contact:
Laura Bruccoleri
Communications Officer
905-777-3837 ext. 12418
lbruccoleri@stpetes.ca
April 29, 2008
St. Peter’s, Hamilton Health Sciences join together to enhance health services for seniors.
St. Peter’s Hospital and Hamilton Health Sciences (HHS) are joining together to ensure that seniors in this region receive the care and attention they need and deserve. This amalgamation will enhance services for seniors and those with lifelong, complex medical conditions by creating a combined system that builds on the strengths of both hospitals. This will also fully complement the excellent programs that already exist within St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton.
“Today, we are ensuring that St. Peter's long tradition of caring and advocating for seniors will continue,” says Mark Rizzo, Chair of St. Peter’s Board of Directors. “This amalgamation with Hamilton Health Sciences will enable us to advance the mission of St. Peter’s beyond our walls -- to expand and strengthen our efforts to build a health care system that is well positioned to meet the needs of seniors and those with chronic illness today and in the future.”
Indeed the needs of seniors will grow dramatically in the future. This region is home to more seniors than any other region in Ontario and those seniors will increasingly require highly specialized and dedicated health care services for their complex health issues.
“The fact is our population is aging and, while modern medicine has done a wonderful job of prolonging life, more people are doing so with one or more chronic health conditions,” says St. Peter’s President and CEO Donna Cripps. “Through the sharing of expertise, knowledge and skills, we can enhance the lives of these individuals and strengthen our entire health care system. We look forward to sharing our approach to care with our colleagues at Hamilton Health Sciences. Getting to know the person behind the illness is what we do best.”
A strong partnership already exists between St. Peter’s Hospital and HHS. The two organizations care for many of the same patients: approximately 84 percent of acute care discharges to St. Peter’s Hospital are from HHS and approximately 75 percent of St. Peter’s Hospital patients requiring acute care are admitted to HHS.
Through this amalgamation, patients in this community will benefit from a continuum of expert care ranging from acute care, to chronic care, to rehabilitation. For staff, this means a broader range of career opportunities as well as a single organizational structure that encourages and supports collaboration and innovation.
Although some staff roles may change over time, there will be no job losses as a result of the amalgamation. "Everyone will have a job," says Ms. Cripps. "In fact, we believe that this partnership will enable us to recruit and retain more staff in the future."
The Boards of St. Peter's Hospital and Hamilton Health Sciences have both voted unanimously in favour of the amalgamation. This comes after months of deliberation and due diligence led by a steering committee made up of representatives from both Boards. The formal legal requirements for this amalgamation are underway and will be completed this summer and the full amalgamation of the two organizations will take place gradually over time.
“We are proud of the excellent services and programs for seniors that already exist at Hamilton Health Sciences and we’re excited about having the opportunity to build on them and improve the care that seniors in our community receive,” says Barbara Sullivan, Chair of Hamilton Health Sciences Board of Directors. “We admire the hard work St. Peter’s has done over many years to keep issues associated with aging and chronic illness at the forefront of service, teaching and research.”
“Coming together with St. Peter’s just made sense,” says HHS President and CEO Murray Martin. “Hamilton Health Sciences recognizes that the demand for an integrated system of seniors’ care is urgent. We look forward to collaborating with the experts at St. Peter’s Hospital and filling this gap in our community together. Our goal is to ensure the best support for patients, optimize resources and enhance access to the specialized care that our parents and grandparents need.”
Donna Cripps will remain President of St. Peter’s and will assume other clinical leadership roles across HHS. “We will benefit tremendously from Donna’s passion for seniors’ care and her extensive experience in this specialized field,” says Mr. Martin.
About St. Peter’s Hospital:
St. Peter’s Hospital specializes in enhancing the lives of seniors and those with chronic illness. A 250-bed complex continuing care hospital on Maplewood Avenue in downtown Hamilton, St. Peter’s Hospital provides inpatient, outpatient, community-based programs and services that focus on Dementia, Aging, Palliative Care and Rehabilitation. St. Peter’s also manages the complex care beds at St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton. St. Peter’s is committed to finding ways to minimize and manage the daily effects of lifelong illness by getting to know the person behind the illness. A high-touch, low-tech approach to caring ensures that the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual needs of each patient and resident are met every day. St. Peter’s Hospital is affiliated with McMaster University and Mohawk College.
About Hamilton Health Sciences:
Hamilton Health Sciences is a family of health care facilities serving more than 2.3 million residents of Hamilton and central west Ontario. Hamilton Health Sciences is the second largest hospital in Ontario and the regional centre for burns, trauma, cardiac, stroke, neurosurgery, pediatrics, digestive diseases, high-risk obstetrics, cancer, orthopedics and rehabilitation services. As an academic teaching hospital with almost 1,000 beds and an affiliation with McMaster University and Mohawk College, Hamilton Health Sciences is committed to providing exemplary health care for the people and communities we serve and advancing excellence in education and health research. With the addition of St. Peter’s Hospital, Hamilton Health Sciences will include six hospitals and a cancer centre. The other facilities are: Chedoke Hospital, Hamilton General Hospital, Henderson General Hospital, the Juravinski Cancer Centre, McMaster Children’s Hospital and McMaster University Medical Centre.
For more Information:
Lillian Badzioch
St. Peter’s Health System
Telephone: (905) 777-3837, ext. 12372
lbadzioch@stpetes.ca
Heather Pullen
Hamilton Health Sciences
Telephone: (905) 521-2100, ext. 75939
Paging: (905) 521-5030
pullenh@hhsc.ca
St. Peter’s, Hamilton Health Sciences join together to enhance health services for seniors
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