Chair of the QHC Board of Directors Stuart Wright. (Photo: Quinte News)
The Quinte Health Care Board of Directors met Tuesday in Bancroft. Below are some highlights from the meeting.
BUDGET BALANCED
The books are closed on the 2018/19 fiscal year for Quinte Health Care. When all was said and done the year ended with QHC being in a balanced budget position.
However, like just about every other hospital in the province, there was a surge in demand for medical care by an increasing number of patients.
The balanced budget would not have been possible without a total of $6.7 million dollars in one-time financial help from the provincial government, given in three separate installments.
MASTER PLANS APPROVED
Master plans for future redevelopment plans at Belleville General and Trenton Memorial hospitals are ready for submission to the provincial government for its approval.
Tuesday night at a meeting in Bancroft, Quinte Health Care’s Board of Directors approved both master plans.
For Belleville General, the master plan’s priorities include an expansion of the intensive care unit and the redevelopment of the Fracture Clinic and acutemedical/surgical inpatient unit.
As far as Trenton Memorial hospital is concerned the priorities are an expansion emergency department and in-patient unit.
In the long term, the plan includes a new hospital to be built beside the as yet to be built Community Health Centre Health Hub.
QHC STRONG IN ACCREDITATION TESTING
The care provided for patients and the effectiveness and efficiency of the organization at Quinte Health Care hospitals has been put to the test by a panel of health care experts and its report is a very positive one.
At its meeting Tuesday in Bancroft, QHC’s Board of Directors learned that experts from Accreditation Canada tested QHC’s medical care and organizational operation earlier this month.
In total, over 2,5oo criteria were measured and QHC met nearly all of the patient care and organizational practice goals.
A decision on QHC’s accreditation will be made soon.
