Knee, hip fixes to go private<\/em><\/p>\nWind\u00adsor is in the mix as the Ford gov\u00adern\u00adment takes the next step in its plan to expand the num\u00adber of privately oper\u00adated Ontario clin\u00adics offer\u00ading pub\u00adlicly fun\u00added health care, Health Min\u00adis\u00adter Sylvia Jones announced Monday.<\/p>\n
Four centres, includ\u00ading one in Wind\u00adsor, will start offer\u00ading hip and knee replace\u00adments in the new year. The province is spend\u00ading $125 mil\u00adlion over two years to add up to 20,000 ortho\u00adpedic sur\u00adger\u00adies at com\u00admunity clin\u00adics.<\/p>\n
The gov\u00adern\u00adment has already expan\u00added the private deliv\u00adery of pub\u00adlic health care ser\u00advices for catar\u00adact pro\u00adced\u00adures, as well as MRI and CT scans, and said that has involved 40,000 eye sur\u00adger\u00adies in the past year and tens of thou\u00adsands of MRI and CT oper\u00adat\u00ading hours.<\/p>\n
The expan\u00adsion should ensure that 90 per cent of patients get those pro\u00adced\u00adures within clin\u00adic\u00adally recom\u00admen\u00added time frames, up from the cur\u00adrent level of 80 per cent, Jones said.<\/p>\n
Crit\u00adics say the province should instead be put\u00adting that money into pub\u00adlicly fun\u00added hos\u00adpit\u00adals, but Jones said it’s not an either\/ or situ\u00adation.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat I see is an exist\u00ading oper\u00ada\u00adtion that has lit\u00ader\u00adally hun\u00addreds of sur\u00adgical and dia\u00adgnostic centres that are oper\u00adat\u00ading inde\u00adpend\u00adently in our com\u00admunit\u00adies, where indi\u00advidu\u00adals, where patients have that con\u00adveni\u00adence of not hav\u00ading to travel lit\u00ader\u00adally hours to get assess\u00adments, to get, in some cases, vital treat\u00adments and now, sur\u00adgical (pro\u00adced\u00adures),\u201d she said at a press con\u00adfer\u00adence.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen we do that, we actu\u00adally pre\u00adserve the capa\u00adcity that we have\u00a0in our acute care hos\u00adpit\u00adals, and we’ll con\u00adtinue to make sure that our entire sys\u00adtem is not only pro\u00adtec\u00adted for indi\u00advidu\u00adals and patients who need those ser\u00advices, but also that we are build\u00ading capa\u00adcity.\u201d<\/p>\n
The four clin\u00adics being fun\u00added for hip and knee sur\u00adger\u00adies are Wind\u00adsor Ortho\u00adpedic Sur\u00adgical Centre, OV Sur\u00adgical Centre in Toronto, Aca\u00addemic Ortho\u00adpedic Sur\u00adgical Asso\u00adciates of Ott\u00adawa and Schroeder Ambu\u00adlat\u00adory Centre in Rich\u00admond Hill.<\/p>\n
Start\u00ading in 2020 at the begin\u00adning of the COVID -19 pan\u00addemic, to help with the pres\u00adsure on Ontario’s hos\u00adpit\u00adals, the province per\u00admit\u00adted catar\u00adact sur\u00adger\u00adies to be per\u00adformed in Wind\u00adsor-essex in a private clinic set\u00adting. In 2023, that was expan\u00added to include other pub\u00adlicly fun\u00added and \u201clow-risk\u201d sur\u00adger\u00adies and pro\u00adced\u00adures, includ\u00ading dia\u00adgnostic ima\u00adging and colono\u00adscop\u00adies and endo\u00adscop\u00adies.<\/p>\n
At the time, the Ontario Health Coali\u00adtion, a non-profit that advoc\u00adates for pub\u00adlicly fun\u00added health care, decried the Ford gov\u00adern\u00adment’s expan\u00adsion of more health care being provided by the private sec\u00adtor, call\u00ading it \u201ca fatal threat to our pub\u00adlic health care sys\u00adtem.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ontario is home to more than 900 privately oper\u00adated clin\u00adics, which the gov\u00adern\u00adment calls com\u00admunity sur\u00adgical and dia\u00adgnostic centres \u2014 mostly for dia\u00adgnostic ima\u00adging.<\/p>\n
The non-profit Schroeder Ambu\u00adlat\u00adory Centre was the site of an announce\u00adment in June by Premier Doug Ford on the last expan\u00adsion. In that round, the province said it was invest\u00ading $155 mil\u00adlion over two years to cre\u00adate 57 new centres for MRI and CT scans, as well as gastrointest\u00adinal endo\u00adscopy ser\u00advices.<\/p>\n
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