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Since the 2015 merge of the health care organizations in Quebec, until her retirement in November 2021, Barbra Gold served as the Director of the Support Program for the Autonomy of Seniors for the Integrated Health and Social Services University Network for West-Central Montreal.
In the role, Ms. Gold was responsible for long-term care facilities, home care and intermediate resources for the territory, including 1,177 skilled nursing home beds located on seven sites, 313 intermediate resource beds on four sites and one million direct hours of homecare for an annual budget of $180 million dollars. In addition, she was responsible for ensuring the quality of care at four different private facilities (550 beds).
Ms. Gold began her career in 1979, working in various administrative positions at the Jewish General Hospital. In 1991, she was hired as Executive Director of the Donald Berman Maimonides Geriatric Centre, and took on the additional role of Executive Director at Jewish Eldercare in 2005. Under her leadership, both Maimonides and Jewish Eldercare received a number of national awards and recognition for patient-centered care. Both were the first long-term care centres in North America to receive gold designation, which is the highest level of designation from Planetree – an international organization focused on patient-centred health care (2013).
In 2015, both Maimonides and Jewish Eldercare were merged with seven other healthcare organizations to form the Integrated Health and Social Services University Network for West-Central Montreal, which serves a population base of 380,000 people and a budget of $800 million dollars.
From 2009 until 2011, Ms. Gold served as President of the Association of Jewish Aging Services of North America, which is based in Washington, D.C.
Ms. Gold has a Master’s degree in Health Administration from the University of Ottawa.
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