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THE CORPORATION OF THE COUNTY OF ESSEX <br />BY -LAW NUMBER 50 -2008 <br />A BY -LAW AUTHORIZING THE EXECUTION OF A <br />MEMORANDUM OF AGREEMENT BETWEEN HER MAJESTY <br />THE QUEEN IN RIGHT OF THE PROVINCE OF ONTARIO, AS <br />REPRESENTED BY THE MINISTER OF HEALTH AND LONG- <br />TERM CARE AND THE CORPORATION OF THE COUNTY OF <br />ESSEX <br />WHEREAS several Upper -Tier Municipalities and Designated Delivery Agents <br />(UTMIDDAs) that are responsible for ensuring the proper provision of land ambulance services <br />in their areas have presented the Ministry of Health and Long -Term Care with proposals that <br />would provide immediate relief with respect to persistent land ambulance off -Ioad pressures at <br />specific hospital Emergency Room Departments (ER's); <br />AND WHEREAS the said proposals are designed by each community to return as many <br />ambulances as quickly as possible into their communities; <br />AND WHEREAS the Ministry of Health and Long -Term Care has reviewed the said <br />proposals and has agreed to provide funding to specific UTMIDDAs on the condition that each <br />UTM/DDA enters into an agreement with selected local hospitals to have each hospital provide <br />one or more nurses in the ER who will be dedicated solely to receiving, teaching and managing <br />patients in non -life threatening conditions that are brought to the hospital ER by ambulance: <br />NOW THEREFORE the Council of the Corporation of the County of Essex enacts as <br />follows: <br />1. THAT the Warden and Clerk be and they are hereby authorized to execute an Agreement <br />between The Corporation of the County of Essex and Her Majesty the Queen in Right of <br />the Province of Ontario, represented by the Minister of Health and Long Term Care, a <br />copy of which is attached hereto, and affix the Corporate Seal thereto. <br />2. THAT the Chief, Emergency Medical Services for the Corporation of the County of <br />Essex be and he is hereby authorized to execute and deliver on behalf of the Corporation <br />of the County of Essex, agreements between the Corporation of the County of Essex and <br />Windsor Regional Hospital and Hotel Dieu Grace Hospital, as required by the <br />Memorandum of Agreement between the Province of Ontario and the Corporation of the <br />County of Essex. <br />This By -law shall come into force and take effect on the 17`', ay of September 2008. <br />NELSON SANTOS, WARDEN <br />MARY'S. BRE AN, CLERK <br />