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Regional health boss likes to crunch numbers
GREGG CHAMBERLAIN gregg.chamberlain@eap.on.ca
executive officer for Westhill Industries Ltd., a Canadian aerospace manufacturer. In the health services field Boisclair is a former chairman of the board for the Ottawa Children’s Treatment Centre, past director of the Ottawa Hospital during which time he chaired the audit committee and was also on the hospital’s quality control and executive committee. All of which, along with his other community service interests, he expects will provide himwith a well-rounded and strong background for his new task. “Obviously, I’m big on financial lite- racy and discipline,” Boisclair said, with a chuckle. “I’ve spent a large part of my career working with organizations in the public sector.” He does not see that as a disadvantage for dealing in health care issues. Having a dollars-and-cents state of mind does not mean he will be looking at the bottom line first, last and always where patient care pro- grams and services are concerned.
What he wants to do, during his term as Champlain LHIN chairman, is to find the best ways to present the best value in public health services to communities and residents, and alsomake sure that the LHIN is always accountable to the public for every decision it makes regarding both health care services and the cost for those services. “The key is quality,” he said. “We must provide quality health care for the people.” Part of a quality health care program, Boisclair noted, alsomeans avoiding redun- dancies that waste time andmoney for both patients and health-care providers. That translates into quicker response times in many areas to patients’ needs, which is also part of his goal for the Champlain LHIN during his term as board chairman. “Number one onmy list is integration,” he said, “finding ways for health-care profes- sionals to further work together to provide quality health care. That means upping the bar on excellence.”
His profession is number-crunching but Jean-Pierre Boisclair has just one goal as the new head of the financial heart of Eastern Ontario’s health services setup. High-quality health care programs for the region are among his primary concerns. Boisclair is the new board chairman for the Champlain Local Health Integration Network (LHIN), the regional agency that oversees financial allotments for hospitals, and the various health services for the City of Ottawa, the Five Counties region, and several other neighbouring counties. Since his confirmation as chairman in earlyMarch, he has been working at settling in to his new post and getting up to speed on health care issues and concerns throughout the Champlain LHIN. “It’s been early days, early hours even, for me being in this job,” said Boisclair during one of several media interviews he’s done during the days soon after his three-year term appointment was announced. “But I really think, on the broadest level, what I’m aiming for is the fastest access to quality health care in the region.The issue has to be how do they get translated to a local context.” Boisclair is a Montreal native who has lived in the Ottawa area for the past 40 years. His background is as a chartered accountant and his past career record includes hol- ding the position of vice-president and chief financial officer for the Conference Board of Canada. He laughs as he admits that he is a num- ber-cruncher and very comfortable with tally sheets and figures, and, yes, he does look very much like what most people expect to see for someone with a chartered accounting background. His professional background includes terms as president of the Canadian Compre- hensive Auditing Foundation and past-chief
Jean-Pierre Boisclair, new chairman for Champlain LHIN.
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