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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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