Founder, President & CEO.
Gaye E. Moffett is the Founder, President & Chief Executive Officer of GEM Health Care Services Inc., GEM Software Scheduling Solutions, GEM Franchising (Canada) Limited and GEM Health Care Services.
Ms. Moffett established GEM Health Care Services Inc. in 1994 and it has gone on to become one of Canada’s largest independent health-care agencies.
GEM Software Scheduling Solutions, opened in 2000 is a high-tech software company and the creator of GEM Health Care System®, an information management system that serves as the backbone for her health care agency and its franchises.
GEM Franchising (Canada) Limited was created in 2006 for the nation-wide expansion of her health care agency. The franchises are known under the trade name of GEM Health Care Services.
Ms. Moffett is a Registered Nurse and has a Bachelor of Nursing Sciences Degree and a Masters Degree in Education (Administration) from the University of Ottawa.
Ms. Moffett’s personal, professional and business success in the health care and high tech fields has been duly acknowledged.
In 2001, her health care agency received the Ottawa Chamber of Commerce Small Business of the Year Award.
In 2002, Ms. Moffett was a finalist for the Business Woman of the Year Award by the Business Woman’s Network of Ottawa.
In 2002, GEM Health Care Services Inc. became one of the first home care agencies of its kind in Canada to receive the coveted accreditation from Accreditation Canada.
In 2004, Ms. Moffett was nominated for the Canadian Woman Entrepreneur of the Year Awards, Innovation Category. The award is sponsored by the Joseph L. Rotman School Management, University of Toronto and the Bank of Montreal (BMO).
In 2005, her name was put forward for the Ottawa YMCA-YWCA Women of Distinction Award in the Community Entrepreneurial Spirit category. She was also nominated that year for the Canadian Advance Technology Alliance’s Sara Kirke Award for Canada’s Leading Woman High Tech Entrepreneur.
The Ottawa Business Journal cited her company as the largest woman-owned business in the national capital region from its annual book of lists.
In 2006, Ms. Moffett made Profit 100 Magazine’s list of Canada’s top 100 women entrepreneurs.
In November 2007, the company was a finalist for the Ottawa Chamber of Commerce Mid-Market Business of the Year.
In January 2008, Ms. Moffett was honoured by the Registered Nurses Association of Ontario for 35 years of continuous membership.
In February 2008, she was named one of the three finalists’ for Business Woman of the Year-Entrepreneur Category.
In May 2008, GEM Health Care Services received the Hire Immigrants Ottawa Award for outstanding practices in recruitment of skilled immigrants.
In September 2008, GEM Health Care Services opened a branch office in Kingston, Ontario.
In October 2008, GEM Health Care Services received an award of recognition from the City of Ottawa Partners for Jobs.
In December 2008 she granted her first GEM Health Care Services franchise in Oakville, and her second one was granted in early January for the Newmarket area of the GTA.
In January 2009 GEM Health Care Services signed a service provider contract the Champlain Community Care Access Centre to provide Personal Support, Homemaking Services and shift nursing services to the citizens of Ottawa.
In May 2009 Ms. Moffett was elected to the Board of the Ontario Home Care Association.
Ms. Moffett is the health policy advocate of the Ottawa Chamber of Commerce, the Immediate Past Chairperson of the Community Advisory Committee of The Ottawa Hospital and the business community representative on the United Way Internationally Trained Workers’ Partnership. She is a Patron of the Ottawa Bach Choir and Chair of its volunteer Board . She has been asked to join the Conference Board of Canada’s Centre on Immigration Leaders Roundtable on Immigration. She is a founding member of Sigma Theta Tau International, Honour Society of Nursing, Tau Gamma Chapter at the University of Ottawa. In February 2007 she was inducted into the Rotary Club of West Ottawa, and joined their Board in July 2007 responsible for the Membership portfolio, and in June 2008, she was awarded the Exceptional Service Award – 2008, in recognition of her outstanding contributions to the Rotary Club of West Ottawa.
Despite Ms. Moffett’s work and extra curricula activities, she leads a balanced life. She is actively involved in the lives of her two sons, who both attend Carleton University. They have traveled together, for example during Christmas 2005 they went to Kenya, Africa and in the spring of 2008 they went to Victoria BC. She exercises daily on the treadmill, attends yoga once a week, has monthly makeovers at a beauty salon and takes her rescued Dalmatian on long walks twice a day. In the winter she has a subscription to the National Arts Centre and in the summers she spends time commuting to and from her cottage. She attends service at St. Matthias Anglican Church every Sunday and Evensong on Sunday evenings in the summer at the local village church near the cottage. She was elected to St Matthias Parish council in February 2009.