Bill PR65 explained in plain English
Ross Memorial Hospital Act, 2022
Ontario legislature bill summary, status, timeline, sponsor, votes, and official sources.
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The Ross Memorial Hospital Act, 2022, updates the governing legislation for the Ross Memorial Hospital, including changes to its name, objects, board composition, and membership structure, while also repealing prior related Acts.
This Act, titled the Ross Memorial Hospital Act, 2022, changes the name of the Ross Memorial Hospital corporation, updates its objectives and powers, and modifies how its board of directors and membership structure work. It also repeals previous Acts related to the hospital. The Act specifies that the hospital corporation is continued under the same name, Ross Memorial Hospital. Its members will only be its voting directors. The Act outlines a broad range of objects for the corporation, including operating hospitals and health facilities, providing various health services, promoting health education and research, collaborating with others to improve community health, and offering other health-related programs and services. The management of the corporation will be by its Board of Directors, which can establish by-laws regarding its size and composition. Initially, the Board will consist of existing voting directors and others as outlined under the Public Hospitals Act. Future board composition will be determined by by-laws. The Act also repeals earlier legislation governing the hospital. It comes into force on the day it receives Royal Assent.
- Continues the Ross Memorial Hospital as a corporation under the same name.
- Defines the membership of the Corporation to be its voting directors.
- Outlines the objects of the Corporation, which include operating hospitals, providing various health services, and promoting health education and research.
- Establishes that the Corporation's activities are managed by its Board of Directors.
- Allows the Corporation to enact by-laws regarding its board's size, composition, and terms of office.
- Specifies the initial composition of the Board of Directors.
- Repeals previous Acts governing the Ross Memorial Hospital.
- States that the Act comes into force on the day it receives Royal Assent.
- Ross Memorial Hospital corporation
- Voting directors of the Ross Memorial Hospital
- The public receiving health services from the Ross Memorial Hospital
- The Legislative Assembly of Ontario
- The Corporation's objects include operating hospitals, providing health services, promoting health education and research, and collaborating to improve community health.
- The activities and affairs of the Corporation shall be managed by its Board.
- The Corporation may enact by-laws governing its activities and affairs, including board size and composition.
- The Act comes into force on the day it receives Royal Assent (April 28, 2022).
- On the date this Act receives Royal Assent, the only members of the Corporation shall be the voting directors.
- The specific details of 'other persons as are provided for under the Public Hospitals Act' who will be on the Board of Directors are not detailed within this Act.
- The precise size and composition of the Board of Directors after the initial establishment period will be determined by the Corporation's by-laws, which are not included in this Act.
This previous Act that governed the Ross Memorial Hospital is repealed.
Source: Section 5
This previous Act that governed the Ross Memorial Hospital is repealed.
Source: Section 5
This previous Act that governed the Ross Memorial Hospital is repealed.
Source: Section 5
The composition of the Ross Memorial Hospital's Board of Directors will include individuals as provided for under the Public Hospitals Act, in addition to its voting directors, on the date the Act receives Royal Assent.
Source: Section 4 (3) (b)
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