Ontario Health-Care Housekeepers' Association

The Ontario Health Care Housekeepers’ Association, an Ontario Hospital Associate, is a progressive organization that offers you a network to help you with any challenges that occur, especially needed with today’s health care restructuring and the many hats most of you are wearing. Being a member is an investment in ourselves. The cost of belonging to our Association is a small amount compared to what we get in return.

Membership in the O.H.H.A. offers the opportunity to participate in educational programs. Our Association now offers the Professional Healthcare Housekeeper, a program the enhances your managerial skills and your career in the health-care support service field, with courses such as Infection Control, Housekeeping, Methodology and Laundry and Linen Technology. The O.H.H.A. recognizes the continuing education courses offered by the O.H.H.A. as credits towards certification.

Also available are educational sessions giving you up to the minute information and changes in our profession. These educational sessions give you a chance to meet your fellow members, an ideal mode of networking.

The aim of the Association is to provide you with the knowledge that you need to be effective and efficient, especially in these times of great challenges. To provide you also with effective leadership and effective representation at the O.H.H.A. level.

The fundamental objectives of our Association are as follows:

To foster and promote harmony and cooperation amongst it's members.
Collect and disseminate information and current data on new improved techniques and equipment in the Housekeeping/Environmental Industry.
To encourage, arrange and promote educational programs for and on behalf of the Association members for the advancement of the Housekeeping/Environmental profession in the interest of improved customer care.