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March 14, 2013
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Roughly 50 people marched through the downtown core of Belleville on March 8, celebrating International Women’s Day. Photo: Steve Jessel PAGE 3
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Proposed layoffs at local hospitals
EMC News - Belleville - Quinte Healthcare Corporation (QHC) has announced a staff planning process that would see a total of roughly 82 employees laid off from the Belleville, Trenton and Prince Edward County hospitals. The process is aimed at closing an expected $10 million funding gap for the 2013/2014 fiscal year. “What we want the community to understand is that we’re absolutely taking patient care into account in this,” said QHC President and CEO Mary Clare Egberts. “Our strategic direction is to have
high-quality and safe care, and all of the decisions we’re making, that is always top of mind for us.” The process would target a wide range of positions both full-time and part-time, including administrative positions and support staff. Roughly half of the proposed reductions would impact nurses. However, with a total of 77 currently vacant positions within QHC, Egberts said she hoped most of the impacted employees would be able to stay with the organization, although possibly in a different role. “Hopefully the majority of our staff who
would like to stay working at the hospital will be able to do so,” Egberts said. “They might be in a slightly different department or doing a slightly different job, but for the majority of people we will be able to retain them here if they wish to stay.” At Belleville General Hospital 40 employees would be effected, at Trenton General Hospital 30, at Prince Edward County Memorial Hospital nine, as well as three additional positions within the organization. Egberts said that the proposed staff planning process is also part of a “transformation agenda” at QHC,
which will see services typically provided in a hospital setting moved into patients’ homes as well as into community healthcare providers. “It’s a big change for everyone, but the patient care will still be there,” Egberts said. “Now this will take a long time to work through this evolution, and this is not something that is going to happen overnight.” QHC announced in fall 2012 that the anticipated financial gap between expected revenues and expenses could be as high as $10 million for its fiscal year that Please see “Local” on page 3
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