Local hospitals just keep getting busier month after month. Quinte Health Care’s Board of Directors learned today (Tuesday) that the volume of patients in hospitals didn’t decrease noticeably in the summer months, a season they historically slowed down.
Meanwhile, four months into the organization’s fiscal year, staff is predicting a $6.5 million budget deficit.
The Board of Directors had budgeted for a deficit of $6.2 million.
Meanwhile, the President of QHC Mary Clare Egberts says she and the board are optimistic that the provincial government will change its current funding formula and that more base funding will be made available in the near future.
“Senior politicians and bureaucrats now clearly understand, after our years of lobbying, that Quinte Health Care is a unique operation with four hospitals covering a vast geography. I have every reason to believe our financing is going to improve.”
