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Board of Directors
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Chair – Georgina Thompson, (Belleville)
Term - 2008 - 2011
Georgina Thompson is the founder and past president of All Care Health Services Limited. She also served as a nursing consultant with Plainfield Community Homes, an emergency department nurse at Trenton Memorial Hospital, and was a nurse at Belleville General Hospital. She served as a Councilor with the Municipality of Thurlow and with the City of Belleville. Thompson has also served on a number of community boards, too numerous to mention. She was awarded the premier’s Award for her achievements in the field of health Science in the College system (1993), was awarded Business Women of the Year Award for Hastings & Prince Edward Counties in 2002 and received the Harry Jerome Award in 2003.
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Vice Chair - Thomas Rankin (Merrickville)
Term 2007 - 2010
Tom Rankin brings to his position as Board member of the Southeast Local Health Integration Network 30 years of public service experience. Prior to his 27 years with the Government of Ontario, he worked in communications with the University of Waterloo. He held positions in the Department of Education, Community and Social Services, Culture and Recreations, Tourism and Recreations and Economic Development and Trade. When he retired he was a Regional Director with Culture, Tourism and Recreations. Leadership development has been a major part of his career and he moderated executive development programs with the Niagara Institute and the Canadian Centre for Management Development. Since retiring he has held a number of volunteer positions with health care organizations including: Board Chair, Access Centre for Community Care in Lanark, Leeds and Grenville; Vice-Chair, Access Centre for Community care in Lanark, Leeds and Grenville; Vice-Chair, Ontario Association of Community Care Access Centres; Executive member, Merrickville District Community Health Centre. Today he uses his math and physics degree from the University of Waterloo in a math tutoring business he runs with his wife Marian. Tom and Marian have three daughters, all graduates from health sciences programs at McMaster University and employed in the health care field.
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Board Member - Leslie Benecki (Kingston)
Term 2008 - 2011
Leslie Benecki has spent her career in the health care sector. Her experience includes progressive managerial roles at Alberta Health, executive director of a Community Health Centre, manager in a health care research centre, and private consulting. Leslie is the program committee chair of the Canadian Chapter of the ACHE, a healthcare leadership organization, as well as a member of the Canadian College of Health Services Executives. A long-time community volunteer, Leslie is currently a Scout leader and on the board of a Kingston-based not for profit organization. She holds a Bachelor of Science (dietetics) from Purdue Unviersity and has an MBA and MHSA degree from the University of Michigan. Leslie lives in Kingston with her husband and teenage son.
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Board Member - John Ferguson (Prince Edward County) Term 2008- 2011 John Ferguson has worked as a Broadcast Journalist/News Director from the mid-1960's until his retirement in August 2006. He was News Director for the Bermuda Broadcasting Company from 1968 to the end of 1978, and News Director of the Quinte Broadcasting Company in Belleville from 1979 to 2006. He is a member of the Broadcast Journalism Advisory Committee at Loyalist College in Belleville and a member of the Radio Television News Directors Association of Canada. He is married with four grown children and his interests are British cars and flying radio-controlled airplanes. |
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Board Member - John Groves (Brockville)
Term 2009 - 2010
John Groves worked as a Foreign Service Officer for 29 years with the Department of External Affairs, (now Foreign Affairs). He served abroad in Berlin, Bonn and Dar es Salaam. His assignments included periods as Director of International Energy Policy, Director of Foreign Service Benefits and Director of Locally Engaged Staff. Other assignments with the federal government included positions at the Department of Energy, Mines & Resources; National Health & Welfare; economic adviser to the Northern Pipeline Agency; and Director of Trade & Tourism for Nova Scotia. Groves devotes much of his present time to community work including The Primate’s World Relief and Development Fund, Meals on Wheels, Community Alpha and Loaves and Fishes. He is a warden of the Anglican parish of St. Lawrence and is involved in many outreach, liturgical and organizational facets of parish life. |
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Board Member - Wynn Turner (Perth)
Term 2009-2012
Wynn Turner has worked at the Executive Director/Administrator level in organizations with many different governance structures including provincial, municipal and not-for-profit organizations, across a variety of sectors including long-term care, developmental services, young offender’s services, mental health and child welfare. She was the Administrator of the Rideau Regional Centre from 1986 – 1997 after a successful ‘first career’ in juvenile offender services. During her tenure at RRC, over 300 residents moved to the community. She served as interim Executive Director of two non-profit agencies and most recently was the interim Administrator of Lanark Lodge, a municipal long-term care home. Wynn has extensive knowledge of the health care, social service and young offender service systems, and broad experience in leading a variety of services and organizations. Wynn is known for developing strong strategic partnerships to enhance efficient, effective and human service delivery systems across sectors. Currently, she is the Chair of Tayside Community Options (TCO) in Perth that provides community-based developmental services, child care and subsidized housing. She is the proud mother of four adult children and one grandchild – all who astound her every day.
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Board Member - Margaret Werkhoven (Prince Edward County)
Term 2007 - 2010
Margaret Werkhoven retired from the Hastings and Prince Edward District School Board in 1999, after a 35 year career in education as a secondary school teacher, vice principal and superintendent. Margaret is Chair of the Board of Governors of Loyalist College. She sits on both the local executive and the Provincial Constitution Committee of the Retired Teachers of Ontario; and presides as Speaker at meetings of the Senate of RTO. Margaret has served on a number of local community boards including the Quinte Arts Council, Youth Habilitation Quinte, the Learning Foundation of Hastings and Prince Edward, and the Parish Council of Christ Church. She was the recipient of the Sir Mackenzie Bowell Award for Educator of the Year in 1999. Margaret is married to Harold, a retired Prince Edward County dairy farmer; and is the mother of two children and the grandmother of four.
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