Ontario hospitals announce job cuts as nearly three-quarters try to climb out of financial holes
1mon 22d ago by lemmy.ca/u/scott_anon_21 in ontario@lemmy.ca from www.cbc.ca
cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/59172446
Several Ontario hospitals have announced job cuts in recent months as they try to climb out of financial holes, a situation critics say will likely keep repeating.
While the government gave hospitals a $1.1-billion funding boost this year, the Ontario Hospital Association had said the need was more than double that. More than 70 per cent of hospitals are forecasting deficits and some are using their reserves to fund operating expenses.
The most recent announcement of cuts came earlier this month from The Ottawa Hospital, which said that in order to address financial challenges it has already offered early retirement, cut vacant positions, frozen travel and found a "more economical" benefits plan.
"Despite all of this, regrettably there will still be some reductions to job positions in the coming months," the hospital wrote in a statement.
The government is strangling our healthcare. People will die from this.
It's always a sad news to see job loosing in the hospital.
HEALTHCARE SHOULD BE A GOVERNMENT SERVICE
Healthcare should be a total financial loss. Like a military or a library, the value is in the service they provide.
Fire the MBA shits who have made a "career" of turning hospitals into profit generating businesses and there will be an overnight boost in care given per dollar spent.
Just when you thought hospital working conditions and therefore service was bad enough.
Meanwhile, Doug was hoping no one would notice he bought himself a private jet while trying to hide how records from free court and the public.