Award of Excellence

The Ontario Hospital Association (OHA) is pleased to announce the third year of the Small, Rural and Northern Award of Excellence. This award recognizes OHA Members for innovation and excellence in the delivery of patient care within a rural and northern hospital. For more information click here.

This year, Dr. Ed Brown and Dr. Rob Williams won the SRN Award of Excellence 2008 for being medical and technological pioneers in Ontario. Through their persistence, dedication and leadership, North Network was launched in 1998 as a provincially funded telemedicine network to provide for patient consultations and hospital-educational videoconferencing. The North Network program has provided patient consultations and continuing professional education opportunities to northern and rural communities in Ontario via two-way television, electronic medical devices and other advanced technologies. In 2006, the North Network merged with CareConnect in Eastern Ontario, and VideoCare in Southwestern Ontario, to form OTN. Today, more than 2,000 health care professionals deliver care using OTN. OTN’s programs and services are delivered in over 500 sites across the province. OTN has made Ontario the most sophisticated, extensive telemedicine environment in Canada and a world leader, which is a tremendous accomplishment. For more information, please click here.

Last year, Douglas Semple of Sioux Lookout Meno Ya Win Health Centre won the Small, Rural and Northern Award of Excellence 2007 for demonstrating exceptional leadership in developing a roadmap for culturally-responsive patient care which culminated in a report entitled Biimaadiziiwn and Meno Ya Win: A Study of the Development of Traditional Approaches to Health Care at Sioux Lookout Meno Ya Win Health Centre (2005). For more information, please click here.

Ontario's Small, Rural and Northern Hospitals

Award of Excellence