Friends Call for Funding Increase to Keep A-P Services

"The Rouge Valley Health System cannot provide adequate and necessary hospital services for the people of its communities... if provincial hospital funding is frozen for the fiscal year 2010-2011" according to the Friends. In a Feb. 4th letter to the Premier the group call for minimum 2.5% increase.

"A freeze is a cut. Cuts engender public health", they state.

Referring to a recent Emergency Department opening at A-P, the Friends state "that it is bad policy for your government, on the one hand, to provide capital funds for the expansion of hospital facilities and then deny the hospitals the operating funding needed."  The organization has supported the RVHS Board's request for funding for an additional 29 medical beds and staffing increases for this growing community.

Rik Ganderton, Rouge Valley C.E.O., recently told the Region of Durham that the R.V.H.S. could be looking at 2.5 million dollars in service cuts if its provincial funding is frozen. Some staff positions have already been eliminated. 

The McGuinty Government is currently preparing the Provincial budget. Hospital funding has yet to be announced.

see: letter

15/02/2010

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