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MLS#083183604616600 Your Host: Steve Wells 613-284-7640 or steve@rideaurealty.ca Like us on Facebook Last week, the Brockville General Hospi- tal (BGH) Board of Gover- nors received notice of the province's intent to appoint a supervisor for BGH in the wake of con- tinuing financial shortfalls and other issues. The Board of Gover- nors, recognizing the severity of the challenges facing the organization, had reached out to the South East Local Health Integration Network (South East LHIN) and the Ministry of Health and Long Term Care, for help. This process will help develop the plan for putting BGH back on track, focusing on BGH as an important centre for quality care and safe in and out-patient services in our community, according to a BGH press release. But the Ontario Hospi- tal Union has a different take on the issue. The appointment of a provincial supervisor for Brockville General Hospi- tal (BGH), is a Mike Har- ris strong-arm tactic that the Ontario Liberals once railed against, is a "surface distraction from the real problem – provincial underfunding of our hospi- tals, including BGH, that is causing deficits," the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) said in a press release of their own. Reports suggest the hospital borrowed $5 mil- lion in addition to a $4 million deficit. "Suggesting that mis- management is at the root of the hospital's deficit deflects blame from the culprit, a provincial gov- ernment intent on starving hospitals of the funding they need to provide ade- quate patient care. "Putting the hospital under administration is an optics exercise to distract from the significant provincial funding short- fall," said Michael Hurley, president of CUPE's Ontario Council of Hospi- tal Unions. CUPE repre- sents several hundred BGH front line staff. Ontario is among Cana- da's lowest provincial fun- ders for hospital care, according to CUPE. Based on the latest fig- ures from the Canadian Institute for Health Infor- mation (CIHI), Ontario government funding for hospitals is $1,395.73 per capita. The rest of Canada, excluding Ontario, spends $1,749.69 per capita. In other words, provincial and territorial govern- ments outside of Ontario spend $353.96 more per person on hospitals than Ontario does. That is 25.3 per cent more than Ontario. "BGH is not alone in racking up a deficit. Every hospital in Ontario is struggling because hospi- tal funding is far too low," said Hurley. Research done by CUPE has found that aver- age Ontario hospital fund- ing for the population the size of Brockville in 2005/6 would have been about $1.04 million less than average funding for the same population out- side of Ontario. But by 2015/16 the funding short- fall for a population the size of the City of Brockville would have exploded to $7.74 million. "$7.74 million a year for the Brockville hospital would have them operat- ing solidly in the black. This hospital is struggling valiantly to provide ser- vices through eight con- secutive years of provin- cial funding cutbacks. The solution here isn't a super- visor and more cuts to care, staff and programs but to increase this hospi- tal's funding," said Hurley.

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