Quinte Health Care still expects to cut costs by about nine-and-a-half-million dollars over the next year, even though it has backtracked on some of its deficit reduction plans.
Q-H-C Official Susan Rowe says now that the first three controversial options are off the table, the fourth option will result in savings of 9.4-million dollars, in the same range as the first three.
There have been changes, including increasing savings in the administrative and support areas by half-a-million dollars, in response to public concern about reductions in beds in Trenton and Picton, and closing Trenton’s emergency department overnight.
Despite the over nine-million dollars in savings on a projected 15-million-dollar deficit by the end of the next fiscal year, Quinte Health Care will still have to borrow over five-million dollars to balance its books.
