The Huron Expositor, 1976-12-09, Page 28-4V414F4:g:
Hospitai)queOlo9s and' nswers
!First Can char hos t ital built in 1639
facilities which any hsopital
capable of providing. Hospital
additionally have a small arnoun
of discretionary income.
hospital is permitted to ke,ei
approxiniately one third of tin
"differential charge" for semi
private or privafe hospital room!
over the standard ward rate anti
receives small grants through
wills, bequests and other types of
donations. The amount of
discretionary income available to
hospitals is quite small.
(The first in a series of six
questions and answers prepared
by the Ontario Hospital
Association and carried as, a
public service by The Huron
Expositor)
QUESTION NUMBER 1
Question:
How did hospitals start in
Canada?
Answer;
The first hospital built in
Canada dates back to 1639 when
the Hotel-, Dieu of Quebec was
established, followed in 1642 by
the Hotel Dieu of Montreal.
The first major hospital
building period in Canadian
history was between 1840 and
1920, when such orders such as
the Grey Nuns, the Sisters of
Providence, the Sisters of
Misericorde, the Sisters of St.
Joseph and many others,
established more than 100
hospitals in communities
throughout the country.
The first public general
hospital in Ontario was the
Toronto General Hospital built in
1829 and the second was the
Kingston General Hospital built
in 1835. Both of these hospitals
and almost all the •other public
general hospitals established in
Ontario before 1959, when the
government brought in the
Ontario Hospital Insurance Plan,
were built by public subcription.
Previous to 1941, hospitals
depended for their operating
funds on charging patients who
could afford to pay and by
applying to entities to various .
levels of governemtn in order to,'
be reimbursed ror services given
to indigent patients.
In 1941, the Ontario Hospital
Association, the representataive
association of hospitals it; the
Province of Ontario, started the
first major pre-payment plan for
hospital costs. The Blue Cross
plan for hospital care was started
in order to assist residents of the
province to pay their hospital bills
and to assist the hospitals put
their operating budgets ,on a
firmer base.
In 1959, when the Government
of Ontario joined with the
Government of Canada in the
provision of a universal hospital
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Since 1959, the financing of
hospital operating costs has been
achieved largely through
payment to hospitals by the
provincial government for the
services provided to insured
patients. The actual level of
payment for each hospital varies
and is based on a global budget
A Gifts,
for the hospital approved by the
Ministry of Health.
Since the late 1960s, the
Government of Ontario has also
provided at least too thirds of the
input costs of all hospital
expansion and extensions. The
remaining money required has
been donated to the hospital by
the community.
Through this budget approved
procesg; the Ministry of Health is
in a position to directly influecne
the service programs and
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First, let us explode a myth. Unfortunately many
people believe that their local hospital is owned
and operated by the Government: it is not, and
we'd like to keep it that way.
The fact is, your local hospital belongs to you,,
and is managed by the dedicated people who
make up the hospital's Board of Directors,
Serving voluntarily, without-pay, they are typical
of more• than 4,000 hospital trustees serving in
Ontario.
These people live and work right in your com-
munity: We believe that only in this way can
your hospital be most responsive to your needs
for health care services. We believe this corn-
That's why you need your .lpcal hospital board.
It's your hospital. Help them keep it that way,
munity participation has given us a standard of,
hospitals and hospital care that is unexcelled
anywhere in the world.
However, we are concerned that the present
system of local control may be eroded away.by
too much government intervention. We don't
deny government's right to decide how much
money it wishes to spend on hospital services.
We do believe that the loCal community can
best decide how that money should be spent
on its hospital services, beds and staff.
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If you would like to find out more about how,your hospital is operated, write to its
Chief Executiv,e Officer, or the Ontario Hospital. Association,
150 Ferrand Drive, Don Mills, Ontaritn-IVC 1H6
A message oil behalf of
your fe unity-run hospitals by the
Ontario Hospital AssOciation
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