BUILDING HEALTHIER ORGANIZATIONS

History

BHO began as an initiative of the Association of Ontario Health Centres (AOHC) and the
Ontario Ministry of Health in the early 1990s. It was first designed as a quality management an learning tool for the provincial network of community health centres (CHC). In order to administer the tool and implement the review process, Community Organizational Health (COHI) was incorporated as a separate and independent not-for-profit, non-governmental organization responsible for delivering BHO in 1998. COHI is dedicated to offering “excellence and effective leadership in accreditation by fostering quality, innovation and learning within health and social service organizations to attain and maintain a state of optimal health”. (To learn more about COHI, please go to the organization’s web site at
www.cohi-soci.ca.)

The BHO Framework

BHO is based on a conceptual framework, a way of thinking about the work and workings of not-for-profit organizations.The BHO tool seeks to understand the relationship between what an organization strives to do – its overall mission – and the systems and activities put in place to realize that mission. BHO examines how all parts of the organization are working together – in concert – towards a common set of goals and to realize the organization’s purpose. BHO looks at the whole organization, and breaks it down into a system of inter-related parts or components, using a systems approach to organizational development and health.

The Building Healthier Organizations Framework
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To learn more about BHO framework, please go to the organization’s
web site at www.cohi-soci.ca

Board of Director examined all component or aspect of board work including its processes, structures and functioning of the last 3 years during their BHO review sessions.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

In June of 2005 Rexdale Community Health Centre was confirm that the Building Healthier Organization (BHO) review will be held on July 2006 by an experienced team. Since then, the centre’s BHO Task Force began working with stakeholders, community and staff to oversee the preparation, process and response to the BHO review team.
The Task Force was comprise by three Board members, staff representative form each programs/administrative teams and the management team whom worker hard to make this process happen on time and with high energy of each participant. Or THANKS to everyone who participated in the project for your input. In particular RCHC would like to thank:

The BHO Board / Staff Task Force

Board Members: Harmeet Dosanjh, Ivana Petricone and Nathan Galiwango

Staff: Ekua Asabea Blair, Evette Kyei, Frances Antwi-Amponsah, Shelley Clarke, Donna Fancy-Lyle, Floydeen Charles-Fridal and Jose Garcia

BHO STAFF CELEBRATION