A neighborhood group advocating for higher entry to providers on the Sackville Memorial Hospital is anxious that Friday’s firing of Horizon Well being Community CEO Dr. John Dornan will result in additional centralization in well being care.
On Friday, Premier Blaine Higgs introduced a number of health-care shakeups, together with Changing the well being minister, firing Dornan and wiping out the boards of each Horizon and Vitalité well being networks.
Rural Well being Motion Group co-chair John Higham mentioned Dornan appeared notably open to working with neighborhood teams like his.
“We have been actually happy that he appeared to see that neighborhood involvement helps him do his job at Horizon and helps Horizon obtain the goals they need,” he mentioned in an interview on Monday.
“So we’re afraid that with out that management and that imaginative and prescient, that did not occur earlier than him, that it could be off the desk.”
He mentioned his group would quickly be assembly to debate the difficulty, and hadn’t heard again from anybody in authorities in regards to the standing of the collaboration with Horizon.
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Newly appointed Well being Minister Bruce Fitch did not provide any specifics when requested about the way forward for collaborations between regional well being authorities and neighborhood teams on Monday.
“There are various issues which have been happening within the province which have been constructive and we wish to leverage off that and ensure these finest practices are occurring proper throughout the province if attainable,” he mentioned.
Memramcook-Tantramar MLA Megan Mitton advised International Information on Saturday that Dornan had constructed “a relationship of belief” in her driving and made a number of commitments to enhancing Sackville’s hospital.
She mentioned Dornan had made commitments associated to retention and recruitment on the Sackville Memorial Hospital and had mentioned opening a second working room.
“I am actually hoping that these commitments will likely be stored, those that Dr. Dornan was making,” she mentioned.
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Mitton can be involved that the wiping of Horizon and Vitalite’s boards will result in much less rural illustration.
“This transfer of eliminating partially elected boards and appointing these trustees simply centralizes the choice making so the choices are going to be made in Fredericton,” she mentioned.
She was involved that this might result in altering the construction of health-care administration with much less neighborhood enter.
“There have been extra questions than solutions at (Friday’s) announcement,” she mentioned