Meeting Agenda St. Joseph's Board of Directors

Date: Monday April 29, 2024
Time: 3:30 pm
Location: St. Joseph’s Hospital – Adams Boardroom A2-041 and via MS Teams video-conference

AGENDA

Call to Order – Nawaz Tahir
Reflection – Abhijit Biswas
Education Session (20 mins)
Disaster Exercise [S. Jansen/R. Bullas]

1. Full Agenda / Consent Agenda (10 mins)

1.1 Adoption of Full Agenda (5 mins)

• Consideration is given to the agenda items listed. Members may request items be added, deleted or moved to in-camera.

1.2 Approval of Consent Agenda (Appendix 1) (5 mins)

• Clarifying questions will be entertained
• Any Member has a right to remove any item from the consent agenda, in which case it is transferred to the regular agenda so that it may be considered and voted on separately

It is recommended that the Consent Agenda for the April 29, 2024 Board meeting, consisting of the recommendations and reports found in Appendix 1, be approved and/or received for information by St. Joseph’s Board of Directors.

2. Reports (65 mins)

2.1 Board Chair Remarks [N. Tahir] (5 mins)

2.2 President and Chief Executive Officer [R. Butler]

(a) Monthly report to Board (5 mins)
(b) Enterprise Risk Management update (20 mins)
(c) Dashboard for Reporting Compliance update (5 mins)

2.3 Medical Advisory Committee Chair [S. Northcott] (5 mins)

2.4 Quality Report

(a) Patient, Resident, Caregiver Story [A. Dukelow] (5 mins)

2.5 St. Joseph's Health Care Foundation [T. Mikula] (5 mins)
2.6 St. Joseph's Professional Staff Organization [L. Bursztyn/ A. Biswas] (5 mins)
2.7 Lawson Research Institute [D. MacDonald] (5 mins)
2.8 Western University 
(a) Dean, Faculty of Health Sciences [J. Garland] (5 mins)

3. Business Arising

(Standing agenda heading for business being carried forward from past meetings / business the board has addressed before)

4. New Business (25 mins)

4.1 Health Care Ethics Committee Recommendation - revised policy "Responding to a Request for Intentional Termination of Life (assisted suicide and/or euthanasia, also known as Medical Assistance in Dying, "MAiD")" [V. Smye] (15 mins)

4.2 Chair Updates from Standing Committees of the Board
(a) Stoplight Report from Nominating Subcommittee of the Board (5 mins)
(b) Stoplight Report from Quality Committee of the Board (5 mins)

5. In-Camera Meeting

6. Termination of Meeting

Appendix 1 – Consent Agenda Items

Members are invited to ask clarifying questions, in relation to the items appearing on the consent agenda, in advance of the meeting, through the Governance office (@email). Clarifying questions will also be entertained at the Board meeting when the consent agenda is introduced. Before the meeting or at any point up to the approval of the consent agenda, any Member has a right to remove any item from the consent agenda, in which case it is transferred to the regular agenda so that it may be considered and voted on separately. The remaining items are then approved en bloc without discussion.

RECOMMENDATION: The following items on the consent agenda be unanimously approved and/or received for information by St. Joseph’s Board of Directors.

Items FOR APPROVAL:

A. Minutes of St. Joseph’s Board of Directors Meeting of March 25, 2024

B. Governance Committee of the Board

1) St. Joseph’s Foundation-St. Joseph’s Hospital Memorandum of Understanding
2) New tenure wording for Community Members in all Committee of the Board Terms of Reference 
3) New question added to the New Member Application Form
4) Renewing Terms of Reference: Fiscal Advisory Committee
5) Renewing Terms of Reference: Governance Committee
6) Renewing Board Policy: Board Evaluations 

C. Medical Advisory Committee (MAC) of the Board

1) REFERENCE for the MAC recommendations below: The credentialing process / Board’s role
2) New Credentialed Professional Staff Appointments
3) Changes to Credentialed Professional Staff Appointments
4) New Clinical Fellow Appointment
5) Interim Appointment, Chair, Medical Advisory Committee

Items RECEIVED FOR INFORMATION:

D. For Information:
1)    Governance Committee Minutes of April 10, 2024
2)    Health Care Ethics Committee Minutes of April 2, 2024
3)    Medical Advisory Committee Minutes of April 10, 2024
4)    Quality Committee Minutes of April 4, 2024
5)    Resource Planning & Audit Committee Minutes of April 9, 2024

2023/24 Membership