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Home My WebLink About2025-01-17Clarftwn Electronic Council Communications Information Package Date: January 17, 2025 Time: 12:00 PM Location: ECCIP is an information package and not a meeting. Description: An ECCIP is an electronic package containing correspondence received by Staff for Council's information. This is not a meeting of Council or Committee. Alternate Format: If this information is required in an alternate format, please contact the Accessibility Coordinator, at 905-623-3379 ext. 2131. Members of Council: In accordance with the Procedural By-law, please advise the Municipal Clerk at clerks@clarington.net, if you would like to include one of these items on the next regular agenda of the appropriate Standing Committee, along with the proposed resolution for disposition of the matter. Items will be added to the agenda if the Municipal Clerk is advised by Wednesday at noon the week prior to the appropriate meeting, otherwise the item will be included on the agenda for the next regularly scheduled meeting of the applicable Committee. Members of the Public: can speak to an ECCIP item as a delegation. If you would like to be a delegation at a meeting, please visit the Clarington website. January 17, 2025 Electronic Council Communications Information Package (ECCIP) Pages Region of Durham Correspondence 2. Durham Municipalities Correspondence 2.1 Township of Brock - Pre -Budget Submission on the need for Ontario to 3 invest in primary healthcare staff recruitment and retention to help end the crisis facing Ontarians - January 17, 2025 3. Other Municipalities Correspondence 4. Provincial / Federal Government and their Agency Correspondence 5. Miscellaneous Correspondence Page 2 breathe it in. January 17, 2025 Honourable Doug Ford Premier of Ontario Sent via email: premier(@ontario.ca The Corporation of The Township of Brock 1 Cameron St. E., P.O. Box 10 Cannington, ON LOE 1E0 705-432-2355 Re: Pre -Budget Submission on the need for Ontario to invest in primary healthcare staff recruitment and retention to help end the crisis facing Ontarians I am forwarding, for your consideration, the enclosed communication #10/25 from Brock Community Health Centre which was considered by the Council of the Township of Brock, at their meeting held on January 13, 2025. Please be advised that Council adopted the following resolution: C-2025-007 "Be It Resolved That Communication Number 10/25 Ontario Pre -Budget Submission submitted by the Brock Community Health Centre be received; and That Council supports Brock Community Health Centre's proposal; and That this resolution be forwarded to all Durham Region municipalities, Premier Doug Ford, MPP Laurie Scott, and the Minister of Health Sylvia Jones and the Minister of Finance Peter Bethlenfalvy." Should you have any questions or concerns please do not hesitate to contact the Clerks Department, Clerks@Brock.ca. Yours truly, THE TOWNSHIP OF BROCK - f)QM0_W Maralee Drake Deputy Clerk MD:dh Encl. cc. Janet McPherson, Executive Director, Brock Community Health Centre Laurie Scott, MPP Kawartha Lakes-Haliburton-Brock Hon. Sylvia Jones, Minister of Health Ontario Hon. Peter Bethlenfalvy, Minister of Finance Ontario Durham Region Municipalities If this information is required in an accessible format, please contact the Township at 705-432-2355. Town shipOfBrock.ca Brock Community Health Centre December 24, 2024 Hon. Sylvia Jones Minister of Health of Ontario email: sylvia.*ones@ontario.ca Together We're Building a Healthier Community Comm. #10/25 Council -Jan 13, 2025 Hon. Peter Bethlenfalvy Minister of Finance of Ontario email: Minister.fin(@ontario.ca Re: Pre -Budget Submission on need for Ontario to invest now in primary health care staff recruitment and retention and help end the crisis facing Ontarians Dear Deputy Premier Jones and Minister Bethlenfalvy, Primary health care is in crisis. We know you don't need to hear again what is blaring from headlines across our province, but it bears repeating here because it is the daily experience of the Ontarians in desperate need of access to primary health care. It bears repeating because our staffing challenges remain significant, and they're getting bigger. Here at Brock Community Health Centre in the Township of Brock, we are doing everything we can to keep providing services to those who face the most barriers to health. However, the staffing crisis in primary health care, related to gaps in wages that go back more than a decade, is making it nearly impossible to retain and recruit crucial staff. This results in us not being able to take on more patients into our primary care practice, having an understaffed primary care team and not being able to hire a Social Worker for mental health services. We need your help. We know you believe in investing in primary health care as the foundation of an integrated health system. We've seen that in the expanded teams announcements earlier this year. However, more needs to be done to ensure the success of those new teams, as well as the existing ones that are strained across the province. We serve populations marginalized and underserved by other parts of the health system; those who face the greatest barriers to health and the poorest health outcomes. The people and communities in Ontario who face the greatest barriers to health care rely on our members to provide primary health care, mental health, community services and supports. We also know that marginalized people are those who are most likely to become the sickest, to be in the hospital the longest, and to require more resources from the acute care systems if we don't help address health issues sooner. Ontario needs to make investments in comprehensive primary health care that support an integrated health care system to provide connected and convenient care for people in Ontario. Administration 720 Simcoe St., P.O. Box 279 Beaverton, Ontario, LOK 1A0 T: 705.432.3322 1 F: 705.426.4215 Beaverton Beaverton Thorah Health Centre 468 Main St. E. Beaverton, On1p ��W 1A0 T: 705.426.4636 1 F: 705.426.3330 Cannington 64 Cameron St. E., P.O. Box 69 Cannington, Ontario, LOE 1E0 T: 705.432.3388 1 F: 705.432.3389 For the Ontario Budget 2025, we propose the Ontario Government focus on funding investments in three (3) key areas to ensure Ontarians have access to the health professionals they need, in the right place, at the right time: 1. Invest in Health Human Resources for inter -professional primary healthcare teams. Ontario needs to invest approximately $430.9 million over 5 years, including an annual adjustment of 2.90%, in the primary care sector in Ontario to close the significant wage gap. 2. Invest in community primary health care organizations through base funding increases to sustain health for communities in Ontario. Ontario needs to invest in a base budget increase of 5% or $33.7 million for community -governed comprehensive primary health care organizations. 3. Invest $9.7 million so primary health care teams in Ontario can implement social prescribing. In the Alliance's Rx: Community Social Prescribing Pilot, 42% of providers reported that they observed a decrease in the number of repeat visits among their clients who participated in a social prescribing program. Thank you for your consideration of these issues and for taking the time to learn about our urgent concerns. We welcome the opportunity to discuss this timely and pressing matter further. Sincerely, Janet McPherson Executive Director Cc John Grant, Chair, Brock CHC Board of Directors, johncgrant@rogers.com Hon. Doug Ford, Premier of Ontario, premier@ontario.ca Marit Stiles, NDP, Leader of the Official Opposition, MStiles-QP@ndp.on.ca France Gelinas, NDP, Health Critic, gelinas-qp@ndp.on.ca Matt Anderson, CEO, Ontario Health, matthew.anderson@ontariohealth.ca Page 5