Northern Health Authority

Description

About Northern Health section In here youll find out more about our organization which provides health services to 300000 people over an area of 600000 square kilometers in the province of British Columbia

The Quick Facts section will give you an overview on Northern Health and the services we provide

The Financial Accountability section is a storehouse for our business plans strategic plans and other financial accountability documents

The Community Accountability section contains our annual reports the Northern Directions external newsletter and information about NHs community consultation initiative

The Northern Health Leaders section will give you an overall outline of our organizations governance the Northern Health Board and management structures

The Northern Health Reports section will provide you access to significant reports that Northern Health has compiled pertaining to health services in Northern British Columbia such as the NH Pandemic Influenza Response Plan

The Vision Mission and Values of Northern Health
part of our Strategic Plan to 2008

The Vision of Northern Health is to be a model of excellence in rural health care

The Mission of Northern Health is as follows Northern Health will build and strengthen the health of communities relationships and all people in Northern British Columbia

Values Northern Health is committed to improving the health of all the people of Northern British Columbia

This will be achieved through

A spirit of collaboration and
Strengthening of communities
It will be done with

Honesty and integrity
Accountable decision making and
A culture of respect
There will be a commitment to

Learning and innovation and
Continuous improvement

Northern Health is responsible for the delivery of health care across Northern British Columbia including acute care mental health public health addictions and home and community care services

Geography
Northern Health covers almost twothirds of British Columbias landscape bordered by the Northwest and Yukon Territories to the north the BC interior to the south Alberta to the east and Alaska and the Pacific Ocean to the west For a more detailed view of our region please click here to launch a PDF version of our map Adobe Acrobat reader is required

Northern Health is divided into three operational areas called Health Service Delivery Areas HSDAs the Northeast the Northern Interior and the Northwest This structure helps to provide a greater degree of local operation and decisionmaking for health facilities across Northern British Columbia

Population
About 300000 people live in Northern BC By 2010 the population is expected to grow to just over 348000 The North has the highest projected growth rate of seniors in BC with a 48 per cent projected increase by 2010 13 per cent of the population is Aboriginal the highest proportion in the province

Governance
Northern Health is governed by a ninemember board made up of individuals from throughout the North The Chairman of the Board is Dr Charles Jago

Administration
The CEO of Northern Health is Cathy Ulrich Within each of the three health service delivery areas a Chief Operating Officer has been named They include Marina Ellinson in the Northwest Michael McMillan in the Northern Interior and Betty McCracken Morris in the Northeast

Operating Budget
Northern Healths annual operating budget for the 20072008 fiscal year is 560 Million

Medical Staff and Employees
Over 7000 people work for Northern Health They hold about 4000 fulltime equivalent positions

Facilities
Within Northern Health there are over two dozen acute care facilities 14 long term care facilities public health units andoffices providing specialized services

Service Delivery
In the 20042005 operating year

Physicians across Northern Health performed over 24000 surgeries
Northern Health welcomed the arrival of almost 3000 babies across the region
Facilities across Northern Health provided 544 acute care bed spaces and more than 64000 inpatient overnight stays were recorded
Northern Health facilities scheduled over 110000 outpatient visits including specialty clinics and rehabilitation
Northern Health emergency departments received almost 255000 visits
Home support workers provided almost 375000 hours of assistance to clients
Home care nurses provided over 60000 hours of care to individuals at home
Care facilities across the region provided 900 residential care bed spaces