About Us

Mission 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 – 2013

The Board of Health meets monthly, third Friday of the month, at the Grey Bruce Health Unit, Boardroom, 101 17^th Street East, Owen Sound. Usual start time 10:00 a.m. Dates and locations are subject to change upon Board of Health Chair approval.

2013 Meeting Schedule:

Friday, January 18, 2013

Friday, February 22, 2013

Friday, March 15, 2013

Friday, April 19, 2013 

Friday, May 17, 2013

Friday, June 21, 2012 

Friday, July 19, 2013

Friday, August 16, 2013

Friday, September 20, 2013

Friday, October 18, 2013

Friday, November 15, 2013

Friday, December 20, 2013

Delegations

There may be times when a citizen or group of citizens may wish to express an opinion on an issue. You can arrange to be a delegation by contacting the Executive Assistant for the Board of Health. You may submit your request by: 

Mail:  101 17^th Street East Owen Sound  ON  N4K 0A5

E-mail:  Erin Meneray at e.meneray@publichealthgreybruce.on.ca

Phone:  519-376-9420 ext. 1241 

All requests for delegations must be received no less than 10 days prior to the meeting date. The request should include the name(s) of the speaker(s) and the subject matter to be discussed. Delegations are limited to 15 minutes.   

Communications addressed to the Board of Health will become part of the public record and may be placed on a public agenda and identified in minutes.  

Medical Officer of Health
Hazel Lynn, MD, FCFP, MHSc

Dr. Lynn graduated, with honours, from University of Toronto in 1976. She also won the Kathleen Chambers Memorial Award for the most outstanding female graduate. She interned at Royal Columbian Hospital New Westminster followed by two years of general practice. 

Dr. Lynn and her husband worked in Nigeria for six years; practicing general rural medicine, teaching nursing, midwifery, health technicians and supervising the rural physician teaching program. Upon returning to Canada in 1985, they settled in Owen Sound, Ontario where she maintained a family practice until 2002.

Dr. Lynn became the acting MOH in November 2000 as the then MOH was fully occupied with the Walkerton inquiry. Dr. Lynn returned to University of Toronto September 2001 and graduated with a MHSc in Epidemiology and Community Health in January 2003 and at that time became the full Medical Officer of Health for Grey Bruce. 

In December 2004, Dr. Lynn was recognized by her peers as one of Canada's outstanding physicians and was welcomed as a Fellow of the College of Family Physicians of Canada.

Medical Officer of Health

Hazel Lynn, MD, FCFP, MHSc

Director of Operations and Program Development

Chris Munn

Director of Accountability and Chief Nursing Officer

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 enabling legislation for boards of health and the statutory basis for the Ontario Public Health Standards. The guiding purpose of the act 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

Boards of health are required to provide a minimum level of public health programs and services 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.

The Ontario Public Health Standards identify guidelines for the provision of mandatory health programs and services including goals, societal outcomes, board of health outcomes and requirements.

Organizational Structure

Administration & Finance

• Finance and Accounts

• Media and Public Relations

• Information Technology including support and web/intranet

• Clerical Support

• Human Resources

Health Unit Profile and Demographics

Area: 8,587 square km. or 3,344 square miles

Population served: 158,670 (2011 census)

• Median age is 47    
• 20.7% are 65 or older
• 15.1% are 0 to 14 years old
• 6.4% are 15 to 19 years old
• Population growth since 2006: 0.6%

First Nation:

• The Chippewas of Nawash Unceded First Nation Neyaashiinigmiing Indian Reserve No. 27
• The Chippewas of Saugeen First Nation No. 29

Health Unit Budget

Office Location

Owen Sound

Map - Owen Sound Location   
Or, see the interactive map   (Both maps are courtesy of City of Owen Sound)

 

            101 17^th Street East

Owen Sound, ON

N4K 0A5

 

Phone:	519-376-9420 or 1-800-263-3456
Fax:	519- 376-5043	Clinic
	519-376-7782	VPD / Vaccine orders / Immunization records / Suspension rescinds
	519-376-1287	Healthy Babies
	519-376-0980	CD / Rabies
	519-371-6310	Environment / Adverse Water Reports from Labs & Private Water Agencies / Dental / Food Safety
	519-376-0605	MOH / Media
	519-371-8965	Administration

 

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.