NORTHUMBERLAND\u00a0–\u00a0<\/span>The Ontario Health Coalition is questioning the way proposed hospital changes are being handled at Northumberland Hills Hospital (NHH).<\/p>\n\u201cHow can they approve a document that the public hasn\u2019t even seen?\u201d Ontario Health Coalition executive director Natalie Mehra said in an interview.<\/p>\n
Mehra said she will be investigating the way the Central East LHIN is handing the hospital review and there \u201ccould be a formal complaint launched\u201d about the restructuring process at NHH \u201cfor violating the legislative requirements to consult.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mehra stressed that \u201ckeeping documents secret to control public reaction is just wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n
Details of the second NHH Improvement Plan have yet to be made public but are anticipated early this week, although a spokesperson says the LHIN, whose board passed the plan, has no intention of releasing the consultant\u2019s report and those recommendations on which it is based.<\/p>\n
The LHIN also put the brakes on making public the hospital\u2019s plan to release the first draft plan.<\/p>\n
This is the second HIP the hospital has provided to the LHIN, which is its funding body. The first draft following the consultant\u2019s recommendations continued in the Haye Report created at the LHIN\u2019s direction was in the process of being made public when the LHIN put that staff and public disclosure process on hold. That initial draft has never been made public.<\/p>\n
Asked about making public the consultant\u2019s report now that a second HIP has been endorsed by the LHIN, Northumberland Today was told that \u201cthe LHIN has no plans to release the Haye Report.\u201d<\/p>\n
LHIN spokesperson Katie Cronin-Wood explained in an interview Friday the reason is that there is a level of information of a third-party nature containing confidential information. When asked for more details, such as whether this was due to legal, property or information about personnel, Cronin-Wood replied that \u201cit could be any of the above.\u201d<\/p>\n
One-time funding of about $1.65-million is being provided by the LHIN to address the local hospital\u2019s operating and capitol budgets for 2015-2016 (ending March 31, 2016) plus restructuring costs, Cronin-Wood said.<\/p>\n
Asked if the restructuring part of the funding was for hospital staff severeness and payouts, Cronin-Wood said that was a question for the hospital to address \u2013 but at this time there is no further comment from that body on the plan\u2019s details.<\/p>\n
Meantime, NHH spokesperson Jennifer Gillard told Northumberland Today that internal hospital staff will receive details of the approved second plan before a press release is issued about the Hospital Improvement Plan (HIP) early this week. At the same time the plan will be published on the hospital website, she said.<\/p>\n
The hospital has been asked to \u201caccelerate integration\u201d because there are significant cost savings associated with that, Cronin-Wood said. What this means exactly to the hospital has not been explained but a \u201cconcrete action plan\u201d is to be provided by NHH to the LHIN\u2019s April board meeting, according to a media release.<\/p>\n
The LHIN also states in a release it \u201ccontemplates no reductions to (the hospital\u2019s) current volumes or types of services, will now being working collaboratively with its physicians, staff, volunteers, patients and others, to pursue improvement initiatives in five key areas: including enhancing board governance and management; utilization efficiencies; clinical efficiencies; operational efficiencies and integration.\u201d<\/p>\n
Local riding MPP Lou Rinaldi said he was pleased a plan had been reached between the two parties that will retain services in the community for constituents.<\/p>\n
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