COBOURG\u00a0–\u00a0<\/span>A recent report from the Ontario Health Coalition (OHC) says community hospitals, like Northumberland Hills Hospital in Cobourg, are being dismantled due to funding formula changes that \u201cforce specialization and centralization of care into fewer locations with patients forced to travel further for services.\u201d<\/p>\nIn the April 13 document, which chronicles hospital cutbacks and closures from 2012 to 2016, it states that \u201cOntario\u2019s hospitals are now dangerously overcrowded and understaffed, yet bed closures, staff layoffs and service cuts continue.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis overcrowding leads to poor patient outcomes, increased morbidity and mortality, infectious disease outbreaks, increased risk of medical errors and high patient dissatisfaction.\u201d<\/p>\n
Linda Mackenzie-Nicholas, co-chair of the local Northumberland chapter of the OHC and SEIU education co-ordinator, told Northumberland Today that the \u201creport shows that our hospitals have become the scapegoat for our present provincial government\u2019s poor budgeting skills.<\/p>\n
\u201cI recognize that there needs to be transformation in health care but that transformation should be for better health care,\u201d she continued. \u201cThe stats provided in this report clearly show that our hospitals in smaller communities, such as our own, continue to struggle with little support from our MPP.\u201d<\/p>\n
In the hospital-by-hospital chronically of cuts, the OHC reports the current restructuring underway this year at NHH which includes the cutting of 13.7 full-time equivalent (FTE) jobs in direct patient and support care covering nursing, laboratory, physiotherapy, hospital support, housing keeping, maintenance and clerical workers.<\/p>\n
The OHC report states that before that in 2014, the public cafeteria hours were \u201cproposed\u201d to be cut, along with a proposed reduction in ambulatory clinic and operating room hours.<\/p>\n
It also noted cuts of 26 beds in 2011, and the closure of diabetes, outpatient physio therapy and occupational therapy although it also states that \u201cas a result of community fightback, many of the cutters were rolled back, not not all were stopped.\u201d<\/p>\n
When NHH was asked to comment on the OHC report after it was released Wednesday, spokesperson Jennifer Gillard confirmed that cafeteria hours have been reduced. When asked specifically if reduced global funding reductions are affecting care and services in Ontario hospitals, and to respond to the impact of the cuts of the number of people affected at NHH this year, plus the impact of changes outlined for 2014 and 2011 in the OHC report, Gillard stated in an email the following day on Thursday afternoon that there had not been time to review the report \u201cin full\u201d and that NHH is \u201cunable to provide comment at this time.\u201d<\/p>\n
No comment had been provided by Sunday morning.<\/p>\n
Meantime, a local rally is being organized for this Saturday, April 23 to support local hospital workers.<\/p>\n
Rally organizer Judy Sherwin of Cobourg, who paid for two banners that say \u201cCare not cuts: Put Patients\u201d suggests people don\u2019t seem to know about the restructuring ongoing at NHH.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe only surgery and cuts we should be seeing at our hospital should be medical, not budgetary,\u201d Mackenzie-Nicholas said. \u201cWe don\u2019t want platitudes \u2013 we want action. It is not good enough to make cuts and still have a budget that is not balanced. This only tells us that in the near future we will be cut again\u201d<\/p>\n
She summed up her reaction this way: \u201cWe sacrificed one hospital in our community already with the promise that better services would be provided.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is way past time to build on our hospital services, not cut them. Patient care should always come first. What is clear to me after reading the Ontario Health Coalition report is that the provincial government (and federal too- if there is not a new Health accord) have their priorities mixed up.\u201d<\/p>\n
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