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PAGE 18. THE CITIZEN. WEDNESDAY, JULY 10, 2002.
The Grey Bruce Huron Perth
District Health Council has
reviewed the details of the recent
provincial funding announcement
for hospitals and is concerned that
funding for rural health care is
starting to fall behind the average
levels of hospital funding across the
province.
According to the DHC's analysis,
the large urban centres received the
most new hospital funding per
capita.
For example, the London hospitals
received over $64 million in new
funding which equates to almost
$160 per resident in the London-
Middlesex area.
The Windsor-Essex hospitals
received over $20 million in new
funding representing $57 per
resident. By comparison, the Huron-
Perth Hospitals Partnership received
new funding in the amount of $24
per resident while the network of
hospitals in Grey-Bruce received
new hospital funding of only $18
resident. •
"If this funding trend continues, it
will ultimately mean cutbacks to
services at our district referral
centres, namely Owen Sound and
Stratford", said Jim Whaley,
executive director of the DHC.
"While I do not begrudge the larger
hospitals their new funding
allocations, I am concerned that the ,
ability of our community hospitals
to provide care closer to home is
being seriously eroded".
The Stratford hospital finished the
2001/02 fiscal year with an
operating deficit (i.e. expenses over
revenues) of $567,600 while the
Grey Bruce Health Services hospital
corporation (which includes the
Owen Sound hospital) finished this
past fiscal year with an operating
deficit of $3.295,000. •
In the recent provincial budget,
the Government committed to a total
increase in hospital funding of 7,7
per cent. In the hospital funding
announcement on Friday, June 28,
the hospitals in Grey Bruce Huron
Perth received an increase of
approximately two per cent.
As part of the DHC's Strategic
Plan for 2002/03, there will be a
greater emphasis on rural health
services advocacy. "The board and
stall of the WIC held a strategic