Ottawa Board of Health
Conseil de santé d’Ottawa
MINUTES 9 / PROCÈS-VERBAL 9
Monday, January 16, 2012, 6 p.m.
le lundi
16 janvier 2012, 18 h
Champlain Room, 110 Laurier Avenue West
Salle Champlain, 110, avenue Laurier Ouest
Contact for the
Ottawa Board of Health
Personne-ressource pour le Conseil de santé d'Ottawa :
John Steinbachs,
613-580-2424, ext./poste
15083
Board Members/Membres du Conseil :
Councillor/conseillère D.
Holmes (Chair/présidente), Dr./Dr A. Kapur
(Vice-Chair/vice-président),
Councillor/conseiller D. Chernushenko, Councillor/conseiller M. Fleury, Dr./Dre M.
Fullerton, Councillor/conseillère J. Harder,
Councillor/conseillère K.
Hobbs, T. Hutchinson, M. Keeley, Councillor/conseillère M. McRae, G.
Richer
The Ottawa Board of Health met in the
Champlain Room, 110 Laurier Avenue West, Ottawa, on January 16, 2012 beginning
at 6:00 p.m.
The Chair, Diane Holmes, presided over the
meeting.
1.
ANNOUCEMENTS/CEREMONIAL
ACTIVITIES
ANNONCES/ACTIVITÉS CÉRÉMONIALES
The Ottawa
Council on Smoking and Health received a Smoke-Free Champion award and
presented postcards to Chair Holmes.
2. ROLL CALL
APPEL NOMINAL
All members were
present with the exception of Members Richer and Hutchinson.
3.
CONFIRMATION OF
CHAIR AND VICE CHAIR
CONFIRMATION DE LA PRÉSIDENTE ET DU VICE-PRÉSIDENT
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That the Board of Health for the City of Ottawa Health Unit
confirm Member Holmes as its Chair and Member Kapur as its Vice-Chair for 2012,
to be confirmed at the first meeting of each year of its term as required by the Health Protection and
Promotion Act.
CARRIED
4. DECLARATIONS OF INTEREST
(INCLUDING THOSE ORIGINALLY ARISING FROM PRIOR MEETINGS)
DÉCLARATIONS D’INTÉRÊT
(Y COMPRIS CEUX DÉCOULANT DE RÉUNIONS ANTÉRIEURES)
No declarations were received.
5.
REGRETS
ABSENCES
Members Richer and Hutchinson
advised that they would be absent from the Board meeting of January 16, 2012.
6. Confirmation of minutes
Adoption Du PROCÈS-VERBAL
The Minutes
of the meeting of November 21, 2011 were confirmed.
7.
COMMUNICATIONS
COMMUNICATIONS
The seven communications items listed in Appendix A were received.
Staff were directed
to examine a report from the Middlesex-London Health Unit Board of Health entitled “Nutritious Food Basket Costing
Survey Results For 2011 And The Opportunities For Action” and report
back on the recommendations as part of a report to be tabled in Q2 of 2012.
This report is the third item in Appendix A.
8.
MOTION
TO INTRODUCE REPORTS
MOTION PORTANT PRÉSENTATION DE RAPPORTS
MOTION NO. 9/1
Moved by Member Chernushenko
That the Confirmation of Chair
and Vice-Chair report; Medical Officer of Health’s verbal report; the Interim
Report on Ottawa Public Health’s Response to the Community Infection Control
Lapse; Cancer in Ottawa 2012 report;
Morbidity and Mortality in Ottawa 2012 report; Strategic Priorities 2011-2014:
Link to Operational Activities, 2012 report; and the Attendance at the
Association of Local Public Health Agencies (alPHa) 2012 Winter Symposium
report be received and considered.
CARRIED
A. MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH VERBAL REPORT
RAPPORT VERBAL DU MÉDECIN CHEF EN
SANTÉ PUBLIQUE
That the Board of Health for the City of Ottawa Health Unit receive this
report for information.
RECEIVED
B. Interim report on oTTAWA PUBLIC HEALTH’s response to the community infection control lapse
rAPPORT PROVISOIRE SUR LA RÉACTION DE sANTÉ PUBLIQUE
oTTAWA FACE AUX LACUNES EN MATIÈRE DE prévention des infections dans la
collectivité
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That
the Board of Health for the City of Ottawa Health Unit:
1.
Receive this report for information.
2.
Recommend to the Minister of Health and Long
Term Care that the Province:
·
Explore the future duties, roles and
responsibilities of local public health units, the Ministry of Health and Long
Term Care (MOHLTC), Public Health Ontario (PHO), the College of Physicians and
Surgeons of Ontario (CPSO) and individual physicians with regards to informing
and follow-up of patients about infection control and prevention lapses in
out-of-hospital health care premises, and consider, as appropriate, inviting
the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC), other Federal, Provincial and
Territorial ministries and agencies and academic institutions to participate
in, or inform, discussions in this regard;
·
Develop
a contingency plan to assist Ontario public health units to respond to similar
situations in the future; and
·
Develop
policies for 100% extraordinary provincial funding to Ontario public health
units to allay the costs associated with such events.
3.
Recommend, in addition, to the Minister of
Health and Long Term Care that the Province:
·
Advocate
that medical residency programs include enhanced training on current infection
control procedures relevant to the specialty and that professional specialty
societies support further relevant continuing education on infection control;
and
·
Encourage
the CPSO to continue its out-of-hospital inspection program and consider
increasing the frequency of inspections.
CARRIED,
as amended by the following Motion:
MOTION
NO. 9/2
Moved by Member Keeley
That recommendation 3 be
amended to add the following:
·
The CPSO consider a strategy for its
membership with respect to enhanced training and general awareness of infection
control procedures.
CARRIED
C.
CANCER
IN OTTAWA 2012
LE CANCER À OTTAWA, 2012
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That the
Board of Health for the City of Ottawa Health Unit receive the Cancer in
Ottawa 2012 report and the accompanying
Cancer in Ottawa 2012: Knowledge to Action Report for
information.
RECEIVED
D.
MORBIDITY
AND MORTALITY IN OTTAWA 2012
MORBIDITÉ ET MORTALITÉ À OTTAWA, 2012
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That the
Board of Health for the City of Ottawa Health Unit receive the Morbidity and
Mortality in Ottawa 2012 report
for information.
RECEIVED
E. STRATEGIC PRIORITIES 2011-2014; lINK TO OPERATIONAL ACTIVITIES, 2012
PRIORITÉS
STRATÉGIQUES POUR LA PÉRIODE 2011-2014; LIEN AVEC LES ACTIVITÉS OPÉRATIONNELLES
DE 2012
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That the Board of Health for the City of
Ottawa Health Unit:
1.
Receive this report for information; and
2.
Direct staff to provide this
report to the City Manager’s Office of the City of Ottawa to ensure Council is
made aware of Board priorities and how they align to the City's.
F. ATTENDANCE AT THE ASSOCIATION OF LOCAL PUBLIC HEALTH AGENCIES (alPHa) 2012 WINTER SYMPOSIUM
PRÉSENCE
AU COLLOQUE D’HIVER 2012 DE ‘L’ASSOCIATION OF PUBLIC HEALTH AGENCIES’ (alPHa)
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That the Board of Health for the City of Ottawa Health Unit approve
the attendance of Chair Holmes and Member Harder at the Association of Local Public Health Agencies’ (alPHa) Winter
Symposium, to be held February 9-10, 2012 in Toronto.
CARRIED
9. MOTION TO ADOPT REPORTS
MOTION PORTANT ADOPTION DE RAPPORTS
MOTION NO. 9/3
Moved by Member Chernushenko
That the Confirmation
of Chair and Vice-Chair report; Medical Officer of Health’s verbal report; the
Interim Report on Ottawa Public Health’s Response to the Community Infection
Control Lapse; Cancer in Ottawa 2012
report; Morbidity and Mortality in Ottawa 2012 report; Strategic Priorities
2011-2014: Link to Operational Activities, 2012 report; and the Attendance at
the Association of Local Public Health Agencies (alPHa) 2012 Winter Symposium
report be received and adopted as
amended.
CARRIED
10. MOTIONS OF WHICH NOTICE HAS BEEN GIVEN PREVIOUSLY
MOTION DONT
AVIS A ÉTÉ DONNÉE ANTÉRIEUREMENT
MOTION NO. 9/4
Moved by Member Fullerton
That the motion in item 9 be amended to
strike out the wording “immediate coverage from OHIP to ensure” where it occurs
in the resolution.
LOST
MOTION NO. 9/5
Moved by Member Kapur
Whereas
all immigrant applicants to Canada are required to undergo an Immigration
Medical Examination prior to entry, which screens for infectious tuberculosis
(TB);
Whereas
medical surveillance is conducted on new immigrants who are identified as being
at risk for developing pulmonary TB;
Whereas
nine out of ten people with active TB in Ottawa were born outside of Canada;
Whereas
landed immigrants to Canada are required under regulation 552 of Ontario’s
Health Insurance Act to wait three months before Ontario Health Insurance Plan
(OHIP) coverage is issued;
Whereas New Brunswick announced the removal of the waiting period
for healthcare coverage for new immigrants in February 2010 and the Province of
Quebec has a range of exemptions to the waiting period including,
communicable disease control and childhood immunization;
Whereas
pulmonary TB can be transmitted to others and communicable diseases are of concern
for the health of the broader population;
Whereas
Ottawa Public Health is mandated to ensure the protection of our communities
from preventable, serious illness at school, work and home;
Whereas
the delay in OHIP coverage for newly arrived landed immigrants who develop
active TB is a gap in Ottawa Public Health’s ability to provide comprehensive
TB management and increases the risk of serious infectious diseases in our
community;
Therefore be it resolved that the Board of
Health for the City of Ottawa Health Unit send a letter, to the Minister of
Health and Long-Term Care, on behalf of the Ottawa Board of Health, advocating
that new immigrants who have tested positive for latent tuberculosis
infection, be able to receive
immediate coverage from OHIP to ensure timely and effective treatment to
prevent the development of active tuberculosis disease.
CARRIED
11.
NOTICES OF MOTION (FOR CONSIDERATION AT SUBSEQUENT
MEETING)
AVIS DE MOTION (POUR EXAMEN LORS D’UNE RÉUNION SUBSÉQUENTE)
12.
CONFIRMATION
BY-LAW
RÈGLEMENT DE RATIFICATION
MOTION NO. 9/6
Moved by Member Chernushenko
That by-law no. 2012-1 be read and passed:
A by-law of the Board of
Health for the City of Ottawa Health Unit to confirm the proceedings of the
Ottawa Board of Health at its meeting of January 16, 2012.
CARRIED
13.
INFORMATION
PREVIOUSLY DISTRIBUTED
INFORMATION DISTRIBUÉE AUPARAVANT
No information was previously distributed.
14.
OTHER
BUSINESS
AUTRES QUESTIONS
There was no other business.
15.
INQUIRIES
DEMANDES DE RENSEIGNEMENTS
No inquiries
were received.
16.
ADJOURNMENT
LEVÉE DE LA SÉANCE
The Board adjourned the meeting at 7:45 p.m.
NEXT MEETING
PROCHAINE RÉUNION
Special Meeting
Monday, February 6, 2012 – 6:00 p.m. – Champlain Room
Réunion extraordinaire
Le lundi 6 février
2012 – 18 h – Salle Champlain
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