Gary passed away peacefully at his home on Tuesday, March 27, 2012 at the age of 50. Beloved husband of Heidi. Loving father of Brendon & Stephanie. Dear brother of Brad Finch and Anthea Serra of Perth, Australia. Gary will be dearly missed by many relatives and friends.

James Scongack, Head of Corporate Affairs, Bruce Power LP

Tony Di Emanuele, MBA, C.Dir., President and CEO, Mohawk Shared Services

The Community for Excellence in Health Governance (CEHG) is proud to announce the sponsorship by the Directors College of its newly launched Governance Development Program. The Directors College will be providing faculty referrals, and contributing to the development of the CEHG’s distance learning program through curriculum guidance and review. The program will be targeting health board members and senior executives across Canada, at all levels of the health system.

The Governance Development Program is an online, interactive course aimed at boosting the capacity of health sector boards across the country. Governance in the health sector is particularly challenging as boards need to manage not only financial performance, but also quality of care in a politicized environment. High performance often begins with the board, whose responsibilities include, amongst others, the selection of the CEO and approving strategy.

“The sponsorship of the Directors College is most welcome, and should go far in advancing health governance education. It will help us provide a superior learning experience for board members and senior executives in a highly accessible way,” said Thomas Philpott, Executive Director of the Community for Excellence in Health Governance.

“The Directors College seeks to enhance the capabilities of corporate directors in all sectors through education. We are delighted to support CEHG’s innovative distance learning program to improve health governance across the country,” said Dr. Chris Bart, Principal and Lead Professor of The Directors College.

The Directors College, a joint venture of The Conference Board of Canada and McMaster University’s DeGroote School of Business, is a national leader in governance education. The Directors College is widely recognized for its Chartered Director Program, which grants a university designation to those who have completed the entire program.

The Community for Excellence in Health Governance helps boards and senior leaders drive performance in their organizations through innovative governance and leadership education, networking and web-based support services, as well as evidence-based collaborative projects.

For more information, please contact:

Thomas G. Philpott
Executive Director
The Community for Excellence in Health Governance
Thomas.philpott@myhealthboard.ca
Office: (514) 412-4435

Yvonne Squires
Communications Specialist
The Conference Board of Canada
corpcomm@conferenceboard.ca
Office: (613) 526-3090, ext. 221

Community for Excellence in Health Governance (CEHG) promotes excellence in health governance and leadership through education and support services, as well as through innovative collaborative projects that align health provider organizations from the board to front-line clinical staff.

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Document Highlights:

• Kasey Reese and Claudia Roszell describe how TELUS developed its Three-Level Enterprise Risk and Control Assessment Process. TELUS initially implemented the process in 2002 and has since added several components. The process allows TELUS to track multi-year trends for various key risks and control environment perceptions across the organization.
• Brian Philbin, Valérie Bournival, and Kristen Petruska explain that if events are interconnected, then risks must be as well—and identifying the relations between risks is a key factor in the Canada Revenue Agency ‘s risk management process.
• John Lark and Grant Pardy look at the risk management process as described in the updated International Standard, and they say that two of the most important qualities of the International Standard are its brevity and its advice on integration as a means of ensuring that risk management is meaningful to managers and decision-makers.
• Chris MacDonald asks the question, Is it better to be good or to be seen as being good? Thinking that ethics and reputation are the same, he argues, is misguided, while thinking that they are entirely separate is equally foolish.

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