Introduction Oak Valley Health , a leading community healthcare organization in Ontario, serves patients through Markham Stouffville Hospital, Uxbridge Hospital, and the Reactivation Care Centre. With a patient-centered approach, Oak Valley Health provides high-quality care to over 437,000 individuals annually. Services encompass diagnostics, emergencies, acute care medicine, surgery, addictions and mental health, and childbirth and children’s programs.
Requisition Number: JR101409
Overview Oak Valley Health is one of Ontario’s leading community healthcare organizations. Across their two sites (Markham and Uxbridge) and Reactivation Care Centre (RCC), they provide high quality, patient-centred care to more than 442,000 patients each year. They offer diagnostic and emergency services and deliver clinical programs in acute care medicine and surgery, addictions and mental health, and childbirth and children’s services. They are also proud to be part of the Eastern York Region North Durham Ontario Health Team (OHT).
Oak Valley Health’s more than 600 professional staff, over 3300 staff and more than 900 volunteers serve patients and families with an honoured to care mindset and are focused on delivering an extraordinary patient experience to the residents of Markham, Whitchurch-Stouffville, Uxbridge and beyond. They are dedicated to providing access to the right care, at the right time, in the right place by the right people and at the right cost.
The Oak Valley Health Board of Directors is a volunteer body that plays a key leadership role in setting policies and visioning for the hospital, as well as the delivery of healthcare in the community. Oak Valley Health seeks to recruit Board Directors and/or Community Members of Board Committees for the 2025/26 Board year starting in June 2025.
Interested applicants are requested to submit their cover letter and resume via Oak Valley Health’s job board Workday by December 1, 2024. Candidates will also be required to provide references upon request. If you have any questions regarding the role, please direct them to Kavitha Shanmugarajah, Manager, Executive Office and Board Liaison, at .
Responsibilities Community Members serve in select Board Standing Committees and are not a Board Director. Oak Valley seeks to recruit board and community members with different perspectives, who embrace the community that the hospital serves, and be a resident or conduct business in the Oak Valley Health’s catchment area. The organization would also like to attract board members who possess senior leadership and business experience and bring a wealth of governance experience in complex organizations going through transformation/change (either non-profit or for-profit).
Requirements Of particular interest will be the individual's ability to be seen as a potential succession candidate and holds the ability, interest and time commitment to work toward a leadership role within the Board, including committee chair and/or executive functions at some point in your tenure.
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