{"id":29122,"date":"2023-11-09T14:55:22","date_gmt":"2023-11-09T19:55:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/?p=29122"},"modified":"2023-11-30T14:58:50","modified_gmt":"2023-11-30T19:58:50","slug":"government-should-use-use-surgical-capacity-in-hospitals-instead-outsourcing-it-report-author-of-the-article","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/index.php\/government-should-use-use-surgical-capacity-in-hospitals-instead-outsourcing-it-report-author-of-the-article\/","title":{"rendered":"Government should use use surgical capacity in hospitals instead outsourcing it: report Author of the article:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(November 8, 2023)<\/p>\n<p>By: Hugo Rodrigues, Standard-Freeholder<\/p>\n<p><em>This article has been amended to clarify a statement from the Cornwall Community Hospital.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The author of a new report on the Ontario government\u2019s stated intentions to increase the for-profit delivery of certain services in health care visited Cornwall Tuesday, bringing with him a message of support for increasing investment in services at hospitals such as the one in Cornwall.<\/p>\n<p data-async=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/policyalternatives.ca\/publications\/reports\/at-what-cost\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-evt-val=\"{&quot;control_fields&quot;: {&quot;mparticle&quot;: {&quot;keys&quot;: {&quot;click_source_type&quot;: &quot;click_source_type&quot;, &quot;anchor_text&quot;: &quot;anchor_text&quot;, &quot;target_url&quot;: &quot;target_url&quot;, &quot;layout_section&quot;: &quot;layout_section&quot;}, &quot;mp_event_type&quot;: &quot;Navigation&quot;, &quot;extra_keys&quot;: [&quot;click_vertical_position_percentage&quot;, &quot;click_vertical_position_pixels&quot;]}}, &quot;click_source_type&quot;: &quot;in-page link&quot;, &quot;anchor_text&quot;: &quot;At What Cost? was authored by Andrew Longhurst for the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives&quot;, &quot;target_url&quot;: &quot;https:\/\/policyalternatives.ca\/publications\/reports\/at-what-cost&quot;, &quot;layout_section&quot;: &quot;in-page-link&quot;}\" data-evt=\"click\" data-evt-typ=\"click\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">At What Cost? was authored by Andrew Longhurst for the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives<\/span><\/a>, supported by the Ontario Council of Hospital Unions \/ Canadian Union of Public Employees, whose president Michael Hurley accompanied Longhurst on his Cornwall visit.<\/p>\n<p>Both presented the report and its recommendations to members of the Ontario Health Coalition\u2019s local chapter at the Cornwall Public Library. In his summary, Longhurst noted while there continue to be waiting lists for surgeries across Ontario, those wait times are better than in many other provinces. More germane to his point, Ontario\u2019s existing wait times are better than those provinces that are further ahead in contracting out some surgical and hospital services to private, for-profit companies.<\/p>\n<p>The report was commissioned in response to the Ontario government\u2019s move to expand the involvement of for-profit providers within the health-care system through Bill 60, which passed earlier this year and allows companies to bid for and negotiate contracts with the government to provide medical services covered by provincial public health insurance. It\u2019s already led to some increase in for-profit involvement, notably in examples such as the establishment of certain for-profit run surgeries within available operating rooms at The Ottawa Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>In analyzing public accounts, information received through freedom-of-information requests, and research completed on the for-profit delivery of health care in other provinces, Longhurst recommended Ontario stop its current work to expand for-profit involvement in health care and invest that effort into maximizing the potential of already available facilities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFirst and foremost we should boosting staffing levels. Funding or staffing is required to perform surgeries and to have operating rooms operating during standard schedules (day times during the week),\u201d Longhurst said. \u201cThis would be using infrastructure we\u2019ve already paid for.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While there are no examples of expanded for-profit delivery of health services within hospitals in Cornwall, Winchester, and Alexandria, Hurley noted the Cornwall Community Hospital has unused surgical capacity that could go further to reducing waiting lists, instead of leaving people with the choice of waiting or going elsewhere \u2014 potentially to service provided by a for-profit company in Ottawa.<\/p>\n<p>Hurley said only four of CCH\u2019s operating rooms are currently in use, one of which is set up for procedures such as endoscopes, and routine surgeries are offered only one evening a week. He said he didn\u2019t know whether that was due to a lack of surgeons and OR staff members, or a lack of funding, but supported the recommendation it\u2019s better to ensure there\u2019s funding through the hospital to expand the number of surgeries rather than turn over that availability to a for-profit provider.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf the hospital ran its six ORs that would expand capacity by 18 to 24 hours a day,\u201d Hurley said. \u201cThere are staff shortages, but we know you can incentivize (to address them). They could get the ORs up and running while bringing (new staff members) on stream.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>CCH responded to an inquiry to confirm Hurley\u2019s statements, noting there are five operating rooms in full weekday use, one of which is set up for scopes. Surgeries are done in one OR every weekday evening and weekend days. The sixth OR is set up for cystoscopy procedures, where there is not enough demand to have it running full-time.<\/p>\n<p>The hospital statement noted it\u2019s not currently a question of funding for its ORs, but having enough human resources to have all ORs running full-time, evenings, and weekends.<\/p>\n<p>Longhurst noted one of the challenges is governments tend to turn on the funding taps to address problems in health care when they become acute enough to threaten their political survival, then once the crisis is addressed, go back to austerity and turn off the taps.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStable funding has to come first, because then you can do the recruitment,\u201d he said. \u201cEastern Ontario has a large population and it\u2019s not far-fetched you would start to see those (for-profit provider) facilities. I\u2019m under no illusion this won\u2019t happen if this policy continues.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.standard-freeholder.com\/news\/local-news\/government-should-use-use-surgical-capacity-in-hospitals-instead-outsourcing-it-report\">Click here for original article<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(November 8, 2023) By: Hugo Rodrigues, Standard-Freeholder This article has been amended to clarify a statement from the Cornwall Community Hospital. 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