Steering Committee

District	Name	Organization
Brant	Julia St. Jean Client Services Manager	Hamilton Niagara Haldimand Brant CCAC, Brant Office
Haldimand Norfolk	Deborah Christie Director Clinical Services, SGS & Addiction Jane Coulson (Alternate) SGS Team Leader	Community Addiction and Mental Health Services of Haldimand Norfolk
Halton	Ed Ziesmann Director, Rehab & Complex Care adn Director, Mental Health Services	Joseph Brant Memorial Hospital
	Karen Aikman Manager of Community Support Services	Services for Seniors, Region of Halton
Hamilton	Dr. David Cowan Geriatrician	St. Joseph's Healthcare Hamilton
	Jennifer Kodis Director, Rehabilitation, Seniors Care & Ambulatory Programs	Hamilton Health Sciences
	Dr. Maxine Lewis Clinical Head of Service, Geriatric Psychiatry	St. Joseph's Healthcare Hamilton
Niagara	Sandra Robinson Manager of Clinical Services & Safety	Hotel Dieu Shaver Health and Rehabilitation Centre
Waterloo	Barbara McKay Interim Senior Director, Client Servcies	Waterloo Wellington CCAC
Wellington-Dufferin	Jane McKinnon Wilson Waterloo Wellington Geriatric Systems Coordinator	Trellis Mental Health and Developmental Services
	Dr. Amra Noor Geriatrician	St. Joseph's Health Centre Guelph Guelph General Hospital
Regional Geriatric Program central Administration
Chair	Dr. Sharon Marr
Director	David Jewell
Education Consultant	Lynn Sage

Composition of RGPc Steering Committee

The committee structure ensures that all regions are represented equitably. This gives a voice to all the regions and allows each local area to communicate their unique needs more effectively.

Rationale for Membership on RGPc Steering Committee

The number of representatives on the Regional Steering Committee is based on the population of adults 75 years of age or older in 2000 for each regional area. For example, there were 8,051 people aged 75 or more in 2000 in Brant, while there were 31,489 in Niagara and 23,498 in Hamilton (Statistics Canada/96).

Based on this population data, there is one representative from each region with less than 15,000 adults aged 75 or more in 2000. Each region with more than 15,000 older adults aged 75 or more will have two representatives. Each region will nominate representatives from their local committees to represent them on the Steering committee. With representation from each of the different communities in our region, we also need to ensure we have representation from programs in the community across the continuum of care. Ad hoc committees may be struck as required to attend to specific, time limited tasks.The programs to be considered for representation on the Regional Steering Committee include:

• Acute Care
• Long Term Care
• Community Care Service Providers
• Primary Care
• Complex Continuing Care
• Dementia Networks
• Universities, Community Colleges and Educational Programs
• Geriatric Psychiatry
• Geriatric Medicine

Expectations of membership

Individuals on the RGPc steering committee will be expected to link with their appropriate regional committees and key organizations and have the confidence of the region to speak on their behalf. Information about pressing practice/policy issues should be brought forward to the RGPc Steering committee for discussion and planning.

Size of Steering Committee

The Steering Committee will have a minimum of 11 voting members from the regions. The Management team will attend but will be non-voting. In the event of a tie, the Chair will cast the final vote. A quorum is 50% plus one voting members.

Accountability

The RGPc accountability structure is as follows: All RGPc staff are accountable to the Chair. The Chair is accountable to the RGPc Steering Committee, which is accountable to the Hamilton Niagara Haldimand Brant Local Health Integration Network. RGPc Breaking News newsletter is circulated on a monthly basis to facilitate information sharing with steering committee members and broader community.

It is our goal to be open and responsive to our membership and Executive. We will seek regular feedback from our members to assess their impression of our progress and also to determine if the needs of our members are changing so we can adapt to these changes.