Governance
With whom does the government have a contract?
SEAMO’S five member organizations (Queen's University, Kingston General
Hospital, Hotel Dieu Hospital, Providence Continuing Care Centre - St.
Mary's of the Lake Hospital and the Clinical Teachers' Association of
Queen's University). The SEAMO “Signatories” have entered into a
multi-year funding agreement with the Ontario Ministry of Health and
the Ontario Medical Association. The five entities comprising the
"Signatories" must ratify a funding agreement, as well as ratify the
internal governance agreement.
How is Alternative Funding at Queen's governed?
These Signatories have created the Southeastern Ontario Academic
Medical Organization (SEAMO). SEAMO has a Governing Committee
comprising seventeen members including an independent chair.
Members
of the Governing Committee include representatives of each of the
Signatories, some appointed by a Signatory, others elected by faculty
members.
There is a two-tiered governance structure
comprising the Governing Committee and a Signatories Committee. The
Signatories Committees is empowered to make decisions on matters "of
fundamental principle" which may be referred to it by any of the
Signatories. Decisions of the Signatories Committee require unanimity,
with each of the five Signatories having one vote. Matters of
fundamental principle include those related to the ability of SEAMO to
function, the allocation of resources to departments, and the ability
of the members of SEAMO to meet the obligations of the contract with
government.
In eleven years the Signatories have met to consider:
- the Extension and Amendment to the Agreement, which Signatories later recommended for ratification;
- a new multiyear Agreement
- amendments to the internal governance agreement.
