Prince Edward County Council has received a pair of presentations from representatives from local healthcare focused groups during their Tuesday meeting.
The first presentation was from Debbie Korzeniowski, a stewardship group member for the Hastings Prince Edward Ontario Health Team, giving an overview of exactly how the Hastings Prince Edward Ontario Health Team operates.
Hastings Prince Edward Ontario Health Team is a partnership of local health and social service providers, which as a group is accountable to Ontario Health. The partnership covers service providers across Prince Edward County, Hastings County, and the Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory.
The second presentation was from Prince Edward County Chief Administrative Officer Marcia Wallace, providing details on Health Partners United in local solutions for everyone, a partnership between local organizations and municipalities to help address healthcare issues in Prince Edward County and the surrounding area.
Health PULSE is a partnership between Prince Edward County, Hastings County, Belleville and Quinte West, along with Ontario Health, Loyalist College, and other organizations, to share resources and work on collaborative solutions to the healthcare challenges facing the local municipalities.
The presentations highlighted both the growing population in the region, and how a larger portion of that population is seniors who require additional healthcare. The Health PULSE presentation also pointed out how a lack of staff for primary care and other services is putting more strain on the region’s four hospitals to pick up the slack.
Both groups are working to address the growing issues in healthcare in the region, and both presentations were accepted without council taking any action.
