{"id":29573,"date":"2024-05-09T13:28:22","date_gmt":"2024-05-09T17:28:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/?p=29573"},"modified":"2024-06-25T16:04:37","modified_gmt":"2024-06-25T20:04:37","slug":"save-the-durham-hospital-rally-revs-up-community-resolve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/index.php\/save-the-durham-hospital-rally-revs-up-community-resolve\/","title":{"rendered":"Save the Durham Hospital rally revs up community resolve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(May 8, 2024) By: Greg Cowan, Owen Sound The Sun Times<\/p>\n<p>People who jammed into the Durham Community Centre hall Tuesday night for a rally to save the Durham hospital said they hope their actions are more of a battle cry than a death rattle.<\/p>\n<p>Several hundred people joined a standing room only crowd and listened as speakers organized by the Save the Durham Hospital committee railed against a recent decision by its regional hospital organization to transform the Durham site into a daytime emergent and urgent care facility.<\/p>\n<p>Some are worried it\u2019s just a step in a slow march toward closing the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDeath by a thousand cuts,\u201d Grey Bruce Health Coalition co-chair Norah Beatty said in her remarks to the crowd, some of whom watched from outside through the windows after failing to find space inside.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a war on rural healthcare,\u201d said West Grey Mayor Kevin Eccles. \u201cRural healthcare is under attack and Durham is the poster child of that today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On April 25, the South Bruce Grey Health Centre (SBGHC) announced it plans to move the 10 inpatient beds at the Durham hospital to hospitals in Walkerton and Kincardine, essentially transforming the Durham site into an emergency-and-urgent care only operation, open from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily.<\/p>\n<p>The hospital said the move, effective June 3, was being made to alleviate a critical staff shortage while still offering a form of consistent and predictable healthcare at the site, which has suffered from intermittent closures to its emergency department.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe South Bruce Grey Health Centre (SBGHC) leadership team and board reviewed all options before coming to this decision. We do not have enough staff to keep both inpatient care and emergency services open at the Durham site. Relocating these beds allows us to protect access to urgent and emergent services in Durham,\u201d the hospital said.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement shocked and angered community members and local politicians who said the move blindsided them.<\/p>\n<p>Eccles and Grey County CAO Kim Wingrove said they were given only a few hours\u2019 notice before the announcement by the SBGHC.<\/p>\n<p>Wingrove said there should have been more consultation with healthcare and community partners, and that other outcomes should have been explored.<\/p>\n<p>Eccles challenged the SBGHC\u2019s assertion the move is being made because of staffing issues. He pointed out that other hospital organizations in Grey-Bruce aren\u2019t facing as many ongoing closures despite similar challenges.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not because of staffing issues, but management issues,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>West Grey council approved funding during a special meeting to retain a lawyer to challenge the legality of the hospital organization\u2019s decision and to explore other potential options for the future of the hospital in Durham.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Mary Pillisch has worked in Durham for 30 years and won a regional Family Physician of the Year award in 2023. She\u2019s worried a hospital without inpatient beds won\u2019t be a hospital much longer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is our feeling this will inevitably lead to the closure of the Durham site,\u201d Pillisch said.<\/p>\n<p>She said four doctors told her they would no longer work on-call emergency shifts at the Durham site if no inpatient beds were available, citing safety concerns.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis decision made to alleviate a nursing shortage leads to a doctor shortage,\u201d Pillisch said.<\/p>\n<p>Retired SBGHC chief nursing officer Maureen Rydell was part of the team in 2019 that decided to close the emergency room overnight at the Chesley hospital.<\/p>\n<p>At the time, Rydell was the chief nursing officer and responsible for staffing nurses at the SBGHC\u2019s four sites in Kincardine, Walkerton, Chesley and Durham.<\/p>\n<p>She doesn\u2019t believe the SBGHC faces a \u201ccritical shortage\u201d of nursing staff today.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve been through worse,\u201d Rydell said at the microphone, which was received by the nodding heads of current Durham hospital staff in the first two rows of seats inside the hall.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI do believe something needed to be done, but not this,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>She called for more consultation, better transparency and a stronger effort by the hospital organization to recruit and retain staff.<\/p>\n<p>She\u2019s worried the removal of the inpatient beds at the Durham site will result in nurses having to relocate to the other hospital sites to fill hours while leaving the Durham urgent and emergent care operation understaffed.<\/p>\n<p>After retirement, Rydell was in a head-on collision and now shudders to think what would have happened if there weren\u2019t enough nurses available for the three patients who arrived in critical condition one after another.<\/p>\n<p>She knows the anxiety the nurses endure on the other side too, wondering when the next emergency might overwhelm their operation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNurses live with those shifts for the rest of their lives,\u201d she said after the meeting.<\/p>\n<p>Beatty and Liberal health critic Dr. Adil Shamji \u2014 MPP for Don Valley East \u2014 drew parallels between the staff shortages hospitals are experiencing today and Conservative government legislation they say is centralizing healthcare resources to larger urban centres and leading to the privatization of more services.<\/p>\n<p>Shamji still practices as an emergency physician. He talked about The Golden Hour, the first hour after a traumatic event in which quick intervention is often the largest difference in saving a life.<\/p>\n<p>Those minutes tick away if Grey County ambulances are busy shuttling patients to inpatient beds at other sites or are diverted to take a Durham resident up to 30 minutes away to another hospital site because it\u2019s after 5 p.m., he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne thing I\u2019ve learned is you can have a vastly greater impact outside of Queen\u2019s Park than inside of Queen\u2019s Park,\u201d he told the crowd, inviting them to the Ontario Health Coalition\u2019s giant protest and march planned for May 30 in Toronto.<\/p>\n<p>The Grey Bruce Health Coalition is holding a similar, smaller-scale event at Owen Sound\u2019s city hall on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound MPP Rick Byers said the provincial government is working to help fill job vacancies by focusing on educating and training more nurses. He noted those aren\u2019t solutions for today, but should help locally in the long term.<\/p>\n<p>After the meeting, he said he didn\u2019t understand why the same staffing challenges experienced by other regional hospital organizations are leading to long-term closures for the SBGHC. He wondered if they are facing unique challenges, but said the organization should be able to staff its hospitals at levels similar to before the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy can\u2019t we get back to that model?\u201d he asked.<\/p>\n<p>Save the Durham Hospital committee chair Jana White said the organization created following the SBGHC decision to move inpatient beds now has 20 members, and she expects plenty more to sign up after Tuesday\u2019s meeting.<\/p>\n<p>She noted local donations and fundraising galas supported the inpatient beds that will now move to other hospital sites.<\/p>\n<p>Both Wingrove and Rockwood Terrace executive director Karen Kraus questioned the timing of the move with Grey County slated to build a new 128-bed long-term-care home in town and a new paramedic base planned to be built within the community.<\/p>\n<p>It was a full house Tuesday, with some notable empty seats reserved for the SBGHC board and executive, front-and-centre, and later filled by some residents tired of standing.<\/p>\n<p>Mayor Eccles said he\u2019s still waiting to find out from the board and SBGHC CEO Nancy Shaw who decided to move the 10 inpatient beds. Was it a staff, board, or ministry call?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll I\u2019ve been told is don\u2019t shoot the messenger,\u201d he said. \u201cWell, who is supplying the message?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, concerned residents in Minden, Ont. are sounding the warning bells after Haliburton Highlands Health Services (HHHS) officially closed the town\u2019s emergency department last summer. The hospital in Minden did not have any inpatient beds when it closed.<\/p>\n<p>Five days before the Save the Durham Hospital rally, the SBGHC distributed responses to frequently asked questions about the decision to move the inpatient beds.<\/p>\n<p>The three-page document included a detailed response to allegations the hospital is turning away qualified registered nurses who have applied for jobs despite the staffing shortage.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll candidates who are qualified for the position and meet the criteria are considered for a job at South Bruce Grey Health Centre. In the last six months have received 16 applications for RN positions in Durham. Twelve of these applications were from out-of-country or out-of-region applicants who were not aware of the location of the job, and not interested in relocating or interviewing. Of the four other applicants, one did not meet the hiring requirements for the positions, two are currently in the interview process, and one was hired.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The document reaffirms the changes are not about cutting costs, or a first step to eventually closing the Durham hospital site.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe decision to transition the inpatient beds from Durham was made due to a critical shortage of staff at the site. Simply put, we do not have enough staff to keep both inpatient care and emergency services at the Durham site. Relocating these beds is what will allow us to keep the Durham site open with the staff we have.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The SBGHC is hosting a community webinar on May 14 at 11 a.m. via Zoom featuring CEO Nancy Shaw and the hospital organization\u2019s leadership team \u201cto answer as many of your questions as possible,\u201d according to a media release distributed Wednesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">Click here for the original article<\/span><\/p>\n<section class=\"article-content__content-group article-content__content-group--story\">\n<figure class=\"embedded-image\" data-aqa=\"embed-image\"><picture class=\"embedded-image__ratio\"><source srcset=\"https:\/\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/nexus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/webhospitalrally3.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=564&amp;type=webp&amp;sig=XO_he2TTt-RbcAlQ6d76BQ, 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