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It is an honour to serve as your community hospital and we hope our 2010-2011 Annual Report will help you to get to know St. Joseph’s Health Centre’s staff, our programs and our patients just a bit better. We are pleased to be able to share our Annual Report with you to highlight our accomplishments and unveil our exciting plans for the future of health care right here in the South West of Toronto.
While striving to achieve our Vision to be Canada’s Best Community Teaching Hospital, we are grounded by our Mission and Values that are the legacy of our founding Congregation, the Sisters of St. Joseph of Toronto. The Sisters came to this community to provide care to those in need – and in 2011 we will celebrate the 90th anniversary of their commitment to providing for the health needs of our local communities. We know that the legacy of the Sisters will live on as we commit to ensuring that we continue to live our shared values of Human Dignity, Excellence, Compassion, Social Responsibility and Community of Service each and every day.
This year, we completed a new three year Strategic Plan to help guide us forward from 2011-2014 to continue to Put Patients First, Enhance the Health of the Communities We Serve, Inspire Our People, Create a Culture of Inquiry and Innovation, and Use Our Resources Wisely. In developing our plan we talked to over 1,000 staff, volunteers, physicians, partners and members of our many communities about what we need to think about in order to be successful in the next three years.
In late 2011, we will be growing again - with the opening of the new Our Lady of Mercy (OLM) Wing we will be able to better serve the growing community around us. On the grounds of the former Mercy Hospital for Incurables (later the Our Lady of Mercy Hospital) the new OLM will bring a 21st century building to house our already 21st century care. Specially designed to meet the needs of tiny babies who are experiencing a difficult start to life, sick children, children and adolescents with mental health concerns, new families, as well as adults and seniors with medical and surgical conditions, our new wing will provide a wonderful healing environment.
2010-2011 was a busy and fruitful year and 2011-2012 will be an even more exciting year for us and for the patients and the communities that we serve. We hope as you read through the Annual Report, you will learn how our accomplishments of this past year will help us to continue to deliver the services that our community needs next year and for years to come.
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Richard A. Ross, Board Chair
Carolyn Baker, President and CEO
Ted Rogovein, Chief of Staff