Donald M. McNaughton, CD, BA, MHA

Class 1965-1967

BA, 1958
MHA, Baylor Univ., Waco, TX, 1967

President, D.M. McNaughton Consulting Inc., Nova Scotia, 1991-95
Director Admin. Services, Victoria Gen. Hosp., Halifax, Nova Scotia, 1971-1990
Personnel Officer, Canadian Armed Forces Hospital, Halifax, Nova Scotia, 1966-71
Resident, R.B. Green Hosp., San Antonio, and Can. Forces. Hosp., Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, 1966-67

Narrative

As a Canadian NATO exchange student I was very impressed with the professional and technical qualities of the program. Computer science was in its infancy in hospital administrative applications, but was recognized in our curriculum and referred too, if not demonstrated in our assignments. On completion of the classroom phase of the program I was fortunate to be seconded for six weeks to the IT section at Brooke Army Medical Center. There I was introduced to some practical applications of computer science and programming in BASIC. I maintained my interest in "Information Technology" and its impact on the design of management systems, particularly for large organizations throughout my careers.

COL Edwards, head of the program at Fort Sam, lamented that the graduates of the program had not been contributing to academic publications, or professional journals. His disappointment struck a cord and led to my contributing to the professional journals, albeit in the security sector. However I was invited to present the medical plan I designed for Halifax county at National Conference on Disaster Planning in Hamilton, Ontario (in 1989), if that is any consolation to him.

After completing the Baylor program I was appointed Personnel Officer then promoted to Administrative Officer for the Canadian Armed Forces Hospital in Halifax, Nova Scotia from 1966 to 1971. This Hospital served the Army, Air and Naval components of Maritime Command's east coast operations.

In November of 1978 I had completed my service obligation to the Canadian Armed Forces, and added sons to my family. Liz and I agreed I should accept an offer from the Providence of Nova Scotia to direct and develop the administrative services of its adult teaching hospital. The hospital had recently expanded from 300 to 800 beds and needed an organizational and administrative system to support its internal operations and many external obligations. It was also the principle teaching hospital for Dalhousie University's schools of Medicine and paramedical services. In 1976 I chaired the administrative coordinating committee that integrated the provincial laboratory services into the hospital's organization.

Because of my interest in occupational safety and special training in emergency planning and Control Centre Operations (Signal Corp Officer and senior Administrative Officer in the Canadian Forces Medical Services, fifteen years) and eighteen years as the chief operations officer (Director of Administrative Services) in Nova Scotia's largest (800 bed) teaching acute care hospital, I formed D. M. McNaughton Consulting Inc. in the spring of 1991.

My post-graduate project was the "Assessment of the Security Service at the Bexar County District Hospital, San Antonio, Texas" which had relevance to my consulting practice in industrial and plan security.

The International Association of Professional Security Consultants accepted me as a member in 1970 and was a member of the American and the Canadian industrial security organizations, to which I contributed several articles in their respective journals.

My consultancy also included pre audit assessments to commercial and medical organizations aspiring to ISO 9000 status.

D. M. McNaughton Consulting Inc. was dissolved in 1995 on my retirement to a life of leisure and travel by car and kayak (with Liz) in and about the maritime provinces and Ontario.