Will We Be Better Off?

Ontario Health minister slams hospital administration
Date Published Feb. 1, 2007

BY HEIDI ULRICHSEN

"Health and Long-Term Care Minister George Smitherman is criticizing the way Sudbury Regional Hospital is run. During an interview with CBC Radio Monday, Smitherman said he was disappointed that hospital CEO Vickie Kaminski was getting paid “more and more” but the “performance of the hospital does not look to be responding. ”He said the province has added more funding and almost 40 percent more long-term care beds, but nothing seems to be “getting the job done.”

Brudders Comments

Is this the same administration that could not build the New Sudbury regional hospital on time and on budget? Is it even open yet 10 years after it was to open? Just asking. Hail to the chief I say! I remember writing a post about not getting what we can get, but taking all that's left to get. Sloppy seconds. Maybe our media should talk to the real people in Sudbury. She had done a poor job and is leaving a mess. I am sorry for the people of NFLD.

The new CEO could be exactly what the government is looking for in expertise in centralizing health services. If Northern Ontario, is any indication, many residents now have to travel far for basic services, and treatment is further away still at more major hospitals, which Sudbury is the central location.

Let's not forget, she is an expert on how to close down services in rural areas, in favour of centralization of health services in core centres. Sounds to me, the rumor of closing down most hospitals in rural NL, and only keeping 4 open throughout NL may become true.

With the delay in the Cameron report, hiring an outsider who has no attachment to NL, let alone an understanding of the people of NL, we be well on the way to more centralization of health care services, and to the same kind of services we are receiving but only worse.

Classic case.... wait and see!

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