Non-subscribers can read and sort comments but will not be able to engage with them in any way. "What's my future? We aim to create a safe and valuable space for discussion and debate. I did not have that luxury. Suggest a correction. Chris Mazza, it is fair to say, has not been the same since. Provoking perhaps the sharpest censure he faced, it climbed from about $240,000 in 2005 to – with bonuses – $1.4-million in 2011, making him the province's highest publicly paid employee. We aim to have all comments reviewed in a timely manner. So what do we do? There was a new tabletop jump he wanted to try. His requests to meet with Health Minister Deb Matthews were rebuffed, he said, by staff who told him the minister was “comfortable” with Ornge’s direction. I believed we had to drive harder, even harder than the private sector, because we had a higher motive. Mazza was an emergency room specialist when he founded Ornge in 2005 as a new way to deliver air ambulance services in Ontario. 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"Until November, 2011, I was being incentivized, told I was doing grand things. Rusted tail booms. With the new models, we got to build an interior that made sense. … So yeah, I guess in the end, they got me.". “For me, Ornge was never about personal enrichment or personal gain. ", Dr. Mazza resolved to persevere. If you do not receive an e-mail, please check your junk folder. In the process, though, he said, he created an atmosphere in which he sometimes failed to communicate his ideas fully to employees, even as they tried to match his frenetic pace. Chris Mazza, who initially stepped down from Ornge two years ago citing health reasons, was subsequently fired by the province without severance over … After a scathing Auditor-General’s report in March, Ms. Matthews denounced Ornge’s “shameful, inexcusable” activities, blaming the service’s performance agreement for handcuffing government. What changed?". At home, his marriage eventually ended in divorce (he has two other children, now in their teens). On the creation of for-profit companies at Ornge: All the equity owners signed pledge agreements gifting back all future dividends to the public side of Ornge. TORONTO - Ornge's ousted CEO Chris Mazza claims the province's troubled air ambulance service still owes him $1 million in bonuses. The money trail has also reached the upper echelons of Ontario’s Liberal party, forcing Premier […] ", He pleads mea culpa, as well, on the subject of his salary. That salary made him the highest publicly paid official in the province. During his worst period, he spent several weeks living in a closet. You'd be leveraging assets already paid for and charging full price, which would flow back and decrease costs to Ontario. Proud of ya! When he emerged after six hours of grilling about the embattled air ambulance service he once led, Chris Mazza appeared a stunned and broken man, limping from Queen’s Park as a crush of media cameras zoomed in. In 2011 Ornge was involved in a controversy regarding executives' compensation, including President and CEO Chris Mazza. "I had actually wanted to quit after SARS," he said, referring the 2003 pandemic that took 44 lives in Toronto and 774 worldwide. I'd taught Josh everything I knew and he was taught by coaches. "Good luck with that," they said. "It was horrific. But nobody told me to slow down.". The Toronto Star uncovered that Mazza was receiving $1.4 million a year while remaining off the "sunshine list" of public employees earning over $100,000. He came to see transportation as the Achilles heel of the province's multibillion-dollar health system. Follow topics and authors relevant to your reading interests. We explore ideas, share best practices and enable "I was told, 'Generate revenue outside of the taxpayer base,' " Dr. Mazza said. His head injuries were catastrophic. This is a space where subscribers can engage with each other and Globe staff. The procurement team reported to me, but I wasn't at the negotiating table. Too hard? But the CPR issue applied only in very limited circumstances – if you went into cardiac arrest on takeoff or landing. Well, we teach children what to do and what not to do, but we don't teach them how to make decisions in circumstances they've never encountered. … Yes? Since then, air transport medicine … Through the development and implementation of a comprehensive plan,… Top 5 Political Spending Scandals 1 / 6. Ornge would have derived additional revenues "selling" excess capacity in IT, finance and communications to the for-profit businesses. Rumours of kickbacks swirled when one of Ornge’s for-profit entities received a $6.7-million payout for dubious “marketing services” from an Italian helicopter firm that sold Ornge its fleet for close to $150-million, but on Wednesday, Dr. Mazza defended the payment, citing an opportunity for the two companies to work together on foreign ventures. If it had not been for a talk years ago with his adolescent son, Christopher Mazza might not have become the mystery man at the centre of Ontario's biggest political scandal of 2012 – the alleged mismanagement of the province's Ornge medical-transport service. Welcome to The Globe and Mail’s comment community. We as a Ministry had a lot of difficulty getting the information. ... Chris Mazza Ex-CEO of ORNGE … We were teaching physics, acceleration and de-acceleration. Comments that violate our community guidelines will not be posted. This is customary for hospitals and other institutions – asking for a directed gift as part of a purchase contract. We were proud of it. I'm running a 24/7 critical service. People said they were good ideas and then the wind changed. He was 14. So they were very angry. Under Dr. Mazza’s leadership, Ornge, a not-for-profit organization that consumes about $150-million in public funds annually, set up a web of for-profit companies, which Dr. Mazza described as being part of an international expansion venture. A few minutes later, on the chairlift, Dr. Mazza spotted a chalkboard message asking Josh's parents to report to the ski-patrol hut. The ministry was informed. Today, he lives in a rented Toronto apartment, remains close to his former wife and spends as much time as possible with his two children, Katie and Matthew. She never reported to me," he said. Do I feel betrayed? Note: Although the charities [and all of Ornge's for-profit businesses] were shut down by the Ministry of Health, J Smarts remains an active program at Muskoka Woods, a youth resort on Lake Rousseau. Aviation medicine is an exceedingly complex axis. I didn't have a choice. There is massive dependency. Though it received taxpayer funding ($150-million a year by 2011), it was an autonomous corporation, run without political interference. I asked, "Is that a good price? If you are looking to give feedback on our new site, please send it along to, To view this site properly, enable cookies in your browser. Ornge also came under fire for chronic understaffing, excessive delays and an expensive new fleet of helicopters whose cramped interiors have made it difficult for medics to do their jobs. We wanted to get a safety message out. So just after 9 a.m. on March 5, 2006, he headed for the hills. Chris Mazza refuses to testify again at ORNGE inquiry. The Toronto Star uncovered that Mazza was receiving $1.4 million a year while remaining off the " sunshine list " of public employees earning over $100,000. I had ideas. A licensed emergentologist, Dr. Chris Mazza served for more than a decade as the president and CEO of the nonprofit emergency transport company Ornge. He has argued the health ministry knew about the … it was an afterthought. Readers can also interact with The Globe on Facebook and Twitter . Was I hard on people? TORONTO -- Ousted Ornge CEO Chris Mazza collected $9.3 million over six years at the province's publicly funded air ambulance service, the governing Liberals confirmed Wednesday. Through the adoption of a fixed-cost contract, Dr. Chris Mazza saved $1.5 million in annual operating costs and achieved dramatic improvements in efficiency and quality. Dr. Mazza failed to answer a number of questions posed to him by MPPs, saying his memory had been tarnished by “black spots” since his son’s death. … But I became collateral damage in a crossfire. 351 King Street East, Suite 1600, Toronto, ON Canada, M5A 0N1, Just $1.99 per week for the first 24 weeks, var select={root:".js-sub-pencil",control:".js-sub-pencil-control",open:"o-sub-pencil--open",closed:"o-sub-pencil--closed"},dom={},allowExpand=!0;function pencilInit(o){var e=arguments.length>1&&void 0!==arguments[1]&&arguments[1];select.root=o,dom.root=document.querySelector(select.root),dom.root&&(dom.control=document.querySelector(select.control),dom.control.addEventListener("click",onToggleClicked),setPanelState(e),window.addEventListener("scroll",onWindowScroll),dom.root.removeAttribute("hidden"))}function isPanelOpen(){return dom.root.classList.contains(select.open)}function setPanelState(o){dom.root.classList[o?"add":"remove"](select.open),dom.root.classList[o? Really? Dr. Mazza, the former chief executive officer of Ornge, has been accused of corruption, nepotism, extravagance, featherbedding, bullying and sexual … The other moneys were parts of bonuses and incentive plans. That's an oxymoron.". As for his relationship with Kelly Long, he said, he began seeing her (and disclosed that to the company) four years after she was hired and after she had become an associate vice-president. At the same time, he noted that all senior executive salaries and bonuses were determined solely by the board of directors, based on increased responsibility (the organization grew from 20 employees to almost 600) and performance targets. Alan Carter reports. Dr. Mazza — who infamously earned $1.4-million in compensation as Ontario’s taxpayer-funded air ambulance provider struggled with understaffing and delays — staunchly defended his “vision,” saying Ornge was acting in the public interest as it set up a network of for-profit subsidiaries that effectively shielded top salaries from public view. …, AW handily won an exhaustive procurement competition, over six rival bids. "That was an error. Some 25,000 children went through the curriculum. The vast majority of other services are still mired in scoop-and-run.". We were going to have a 20-year relationship with Agusta. TORONTO STAR FILE PHOTO. Wed, Jul 18: The man at the centre of the Ornge scandal says he doesn't know what went wrong with the troubled air ambulance service. At times, he showed flashes of the dynamic executive he had been – confident and in command of facts and concepts. Because if you are sick north of Newmarket, trust me, that's a very different risk profile than if you live south of Newmarket" (a town at the northern edge of the Greater Toronto Area). At work, he fixated, he said, on gaps in the health system and mistakes that could cost someone else a loved one. ORNGE has settled a lawsuit with a former executive who claimed she was bullied and sexually harassed by the founder of the provincial air ambulance service. When he initially accepted the position with Ornge, which was formerly known as Ontario Air Ambulance, the firm operated with little organization. I never rode in the boat. Then known as the Ontario Air Ambulance Services Co., it was burdened with obsolete aircraft, antiquated communications systems, moribund morale and diffused accountability. 1 / 6. "Nobody thought about it," Dr. Mazza said. UPDATED: Read our community guidelines here. I do. I don't know what we could have done differently. Dr. Mazza’s testimony stands in sharp contrast to the province’s attempt to distance itself from Ornge’s leadership. Maybe. Dr. Mazza also denied pulling strings to secure his girlfriend, Kelly Long, an executive position at Ornge, dismissing one employee’s accusation of nepotism as “very disappointing and somewhat offensive.”. I had no vote on any of this. Dr. Mazza mounted a vigorous defence of the hybrid public/private-enterprise model that he created at Ornge. If he underestimated the need for transparency, it may have been because of the anomalous zone that Ornge occupied. A trauma-team leader known for his brilliance and his take-no-prisoners manner, he was named medical director of the hospital's air-ambulance program in 1996. Bankruptcy has consumed two for-profit ORNGE companies, and founder Dr. Chris Mazza and his two most trusted lieutenants have lost their jobs. Not just by my board and by investors, but by deputy and assistant deputy ministers. But I've learned that people remember things differently when they feel threatened. On Ornge's purchase of Canadian Helicopters Limited's fleet of 11 S-76 Sikorskys for $28-million, while it awaited the new AWs: That decision was made only after CHL, sole bidder on our 2008 RFP for rotary service, asked for $49.5-million a year, up from $31-million in 2007. Every province has medical air transport, but only Ornge was a public/private hybrid. “To this day,” Dr. Mazza said after a pause, “I don’t know.”, • Email: [email protected] | Twitter: megan_otoole, 260 Adelaide Street East, No. One the apparent extravagance of Ornge's $50,000 wakeboard speedboat and two custom-built motorcycles: The bikes [with a value of $150,000] were gifted by AgustaWestland to boost the profile of the Ornge Foundation, our patient-care promoting charity. Most notably, he said he could not recall specifics about the fluctuations in his salary, which doubled in a few short years. Some information in it may no longer be current. "At no point did we become a rogue organization," former ORNGE chief executive Dr. Chris Mazza said in a long-awaited and much-delayed appearance before a … ", "So in November, 2011, I'm great," Dr. Mazza concluded, "and in December, pardon me, I'm a piece of shit. I have no knowledge of how to build helicopters or what they cost. Avoid the use of toxic and offensive language. You are doing a lot of good for a lot of people. Chris Mazza, Ousted Ornge CEO, Says Ontario Government Failed To Raise Red Flags. Dr. Mazza then became involved in integrating a fragmented patchwork of 50 municipally run land-ambulance agencies and one provincial air-ambulance service into one not-for-profit, independent entity, which he was appointed to run when it was founded in 2005. So you tell me we didn't need to replace the fleet? "I'm not perfect," Dr. Mazza conceded. What went wrong at Ornge, she asked? ORNGE founder Chris Mazza terminated ORNGE has fired air ambulance founder Dr. Chris Mazza. His recovery, he said, is focused "on the holistic healing of my mind, body and spirit," incorporating running, meditation, yoga and healthy eating. But it was one simple, gentle question from New Democrat MPP France Gelinas that appeared to leave Dr. Mazza speechless. What was missing? The cost of capital to them was 25 per cent. © Copyright 2021 The Globe and Mail Inc. All rights reserved. I didn't understand that dynamic. Eventually fired, he entered Guelph's Homewood Health Centre, and was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder. It's much safer to do that on water. In 2011 Ornge was involved in a controversy regarding executives' compensation, including President and CEO Chris Mazza. In memory of my son, Joshua, we also set up J Smarts, a charitable endeavour to teach risk-management skills to teen athletes. In the old choppers, a medic had to break the law by getting out of his seat to check the patient in flight. Former CEO Chris Mazza tells gruelling hearing into Ornge scandal he is just a scapegoat, Citation tracking and reference links to full-text articles, Ability to share the information through various social media outlets with a single click, Pay-per-View purchases of single articles or issues by credit card or paypal, The advantage of having password access to. read. "You created these big wonderful hospitals and centres of excellence and when you asked, 'How are you going to connect all of this?' I couldn't figure out why nobody would co-operate with each other, would not make intensive-care-unit beds available or provide nurses. We hope to have this fixed soon. "It seems strange to have even had that kind of conversation with a 12-year-old, but he was that kind of kid," he said. Some of these claims are now the subject of an Ontario Provincial Police probe. His handshake was firm, but he looked grey and drawn, his right knee jumping as he spoke. TORONTO – A prominent law firm with connections to Canada’s most powerful political players collected almost $11 million from Ontario’s troubled air ambulance service, which has since fallen under the shadow of a criminal probe, a legislative committee heard Wednesday. Wednesday marked his first public comments about the Ornge saga, after a previous committee appearance was cancelled for health reasons. Let's go.". More than 25 per cent of their profits came from return on capital. After the past year's relentless media and political fusillade, he said, "my spirit has been crushed, my confidence shattered, my family shattered. Re-engineering Ornge was a Herculean challenge. When he announced plans for Ornge to cut excesses from their fees and to acquire some of its own planes and helicopters, he said, they told him, " 'You can't do this. I don't know. He was dead on impact. What if there are issues? "Far from it. In military procurement, it's a factor of six [times as much]. I was terrified. As for the way she was "denigrated as 'a waitress and a water-ski instructor,' " he added, those were side jobs she had had while earning her MBA and teaching. 8, Toronto ON M5A 1N1, 54 Berkeley St., Suite 305, 3rd Floor Toronto, ON M5A 2W4, Journal of health services, management and policy research. "I didn't perceive our salaries would be compared to other public-sector agencies" rather than private ones, he said. ", One answer was to sell Ornge's expertise to other jurisdictions. Yet he still died. “These plans were in the public interest and they were fully and regularly disclosed to government and to senior officials in the Ministry of Health,” he testified at Wednesday’s all-party committee hearing into the multimillion-dollar scandal that has consumed Ornge for months and prompted a high-level shakeup. 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