The first member of the Quinte Health Care Board of Directors to ever serve the complete maximum allowable nine-year term is retiring from the board.
Stuart Wright leaves the board as its Chair and received high praise at Tuesday’s board meeting.
Looking back on his years of service Wright said his and the board’s biggest accomplishment was getting a permanent change in the provincial hospital funding formula, which had been a goal for the past several years.
“Mary Clare (President QHC), myself, and others on the board never stopped talking to the province, whether it was our local MPPs, cabinet ministers, or bureaucrats.
The old funding system was unfair to hospitals like ours with separate facilities with great distances between them. It wasn’t only my doing that we recently received a good increase in our base funding. It was the work of the entire board, past and present ones.”
Wright also said working with Mary Clare Egberts had been a real pleasure even if they didn’t always agree.
Also retiring from QHC’s Board of Directors is Dr. Kimberly Woodhouse.
Replacing the two outgoing members will be Andrew Fleming and Gary Hannaford. Current Vice-Chair David MacKinnon will become Chair and Nancy Evans will take the Vice Chairs position.
