OK the last word
After three days of rumination, driving 3000 kms gives you plenty of time to chew the cud, here is my opinion on the hospital affair. Basically the opponents took a knife to a gunfight. Not knowing the rules, were they going to be King & Kerr (WTF were those?) or an imposed Robert's? It turned out to be neither. The membership, living in the past hadn't realised that time had passed them by and the Association had morphed into a Corporation, complete with the rules that allowed Conrad Black and other corporate tyrants to maintain power. It is obvious that this community has lost its Community hospital and now members will only have the right to vote on bylaws. The Board now will do what they want - braunnose the LHIN and hope like hell that they stay off the shitlist. Because now the LHIN controls the hospital sector by making all the Hospitals "compete" for funding. tTose not big enough, smart enough or compliant enough will lose out. In addition there is a LHIN requirement for funding that each hospital complete an "integration" process. When one looks at this an "integration activity" can be a removal of service so look for more lost services.
[Hey hasn't all this been tried in the NHS in the UK and found to be wanting? - ed]
What does this mean for the average person in the catchment area - diddlysquat as the perception that paying $10 for a membership allows participation is shot all to heck, these moves at the AGM just confirmed that, but as one emailer to me commented, "the board has been confirmed as a bunch of thugs and goons in the public eye!" the public has noticed.
It will be hard slogging to fundraise this year. But then they are only funding equipment not services so who cares if we have the best equipment but no services to use them?
My advise next year read this book after all this is the bible that did us in, but it comes with a $600 per hour pricetag.
[Hey hasn't all this been tried in the NHS in the UK and found to be wanting? - ed]
What does this mean for the average person in the catchment area - diddlysquat as the perception that paying $10 for a membership allows participation is shot all to heck, these moves at the AGM just confirmed that, but as one emailer to me commented, "the board has been confirmed as a bunch of thugs and goons in the public eye!" the public has noticed.
It will be hard slogging to fundraise this year. But then they are only funding equipment not services so who cares if we have the best equipment but no services to use them?
My advise next year read this book after all this is the bible that did us in, but it comes with a $600 per hour pricetag.
1 comments:
Yabbut, Ben....none of what you're saying jives with what 'an anonymous health care provider' said yesterday. To wit, it's all the union's fault -'specially them durned nurses! Have a look:
"The current "crisis" at the hospital has been years in the making. During the McGuinty years the unionized "rank and file" have been getting raises averaging 3% per year in their contracts. PROVINCAL funding for the hospitals however, has risen only 1% or so each year. How can this result in anything but an unacceptable situation? Case in point: The last ONA collective agreement was 3 3 year deal that averaged out to more than 3% per year AND included a hefty signing bonus even though the previous contract hadn't yet expired.
Mr Biron and the board would have been better off cutting the Palliative care beds and saving the physio/diabetes program even if the waiting list for outpatient physio was way too long and most people who needed service in a timely fashion couldn't get it anyway.
Biron and the board consulted with the community and done what they were directed to do to avoid running a deficit (which by the way is illegal in ON unless you're the government).
Quit demonizing people who do their jobs in good faith and place the blame where it belongs: at the feet of McGuinty and the Liberals."
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