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About UsMission Statement We work with the Grey Bruce community to protect and promote health. Vision Statement Working together for a healthier future for all. Board of Health – 2012
Medical Officer of Health Hazel Lynn, MD, FCFP, MHSc
Directors of Operations and Program Development Chris Munn Maureen Handley
Director of Finance and Administration Joan Tod
History of the Grey Bruce Health Unit The Public Health Act (1884) established the first boards of health. By 1900, there were over 800 public health units in Ontario including several locally autonomous boards across Grey and Bruce Counties. Owen Sound formed a Public Health Department in 1911. Provincial grants to municipalities for health units were established in 1945 prompting Bruce County to establish a consolidated health unit in 1946. Grey County amalgamated several local boards to a county health unit in 1963. The Public Health Act was amended in 1967 requiring municipalities to provide full-time public health services. The Owen Sound and Grey County units amalgamated that year. In 1983, the Health Protection and Promotion Act was proclaimed (revised in 1997). Grey-Owen Sound joined with Bruce in 1989 and as a result of municipal restructuring in 2001 was re-named the Grey Bruce Health Unit.
Legislative Mandate for Ontario’s Boards of Health Ontario’s Health Protection and Promotion Act (HPPA) provides the legislative mandate for boards of health and the statutory basis for the Ontario Public Health Standards. The guiding purpose of the HPPA is to: ...provide for the organization and delivery of public health programs and services, the prevention of the spread of disease and the promotion and protection of the health of the people of Ontario. R.S.O. 1990, c. H.7, s.2
Section 5 of the HPPA specifies that boards of health must provide or ensure the provision of a minimum level of public health programs and services in specified areas as follows: • Community sanitation and the prevention or elimination of health hazards; • Provision of safe drinking water by small drinking water systems; • Control of infectious and reportable disease, including providing immunization services to children and adults; • Health promotion, health protection, and disease and injury prevention; • Family health; • Collection and analysis of epidemiologic data; • Such additional health programs and services as prescribed by regulation.
Section 7 of the HPPA grants authourity to the Minister of Health and Long-Term Care to “publish guidelines for the provision of mandatory health programs and services, and every board of health shall comply with the published guidelines” R.S.O. 1990, c. H.7, s.7 (1), thereby establishing the legal authority for the Ontario Public Health Standards. The Ontario Public Health Standards were revised and updated in 2008 and includes a foundational standard and 13 program standards. Each program standard includes goals, societal outcomes, board of health outcomes and requirements.
Boards of health may deliver additional programs and services in response to local needs identified within their communities, as acknowledged in Section 9 of the HPPA.
Organizational Structure
Administration & Finance
Area: 8,587 square km. or 3,344 square miles Population served: 157,760 (2006 census)
First Nation:
Health Unit Budget
Office Locations
Owen Sound
The Grey Bruce Health Unit maintains a 24-hour, seven days-a-week, on-call emergency response capable of dealing with emergencies whenever public health is threatened or at risk.
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We work with the Grey Bruce community to protect and promote health
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