Hastings County seems “optimistic” about the upcoming changes to Ontario’s health care system, announced by Ontario’s Progressive Conservative government.
Following Thursday’s county council meeting, CAO Jim Pine told Quinte News that if there are going to be 30 or more health care teams in Ontario he hopes one will be in this area.
He also said the reorganization will help the county get more “health care” for residents in the two Long Term Care homes.
Pine pointed out the county doesn’t “have sufficient resources to do that. Not just the medical care, it’s the other kind of care, the physical and psychological, that kind of stuff we really want to get more of.”
Tweed Mayor Jo-Anne Albert at Hastings County council, February 28, 2019 (Photo: Mary Thomas/Quinte News)
Mayor of Tweed Jo-Anne Albert, who is the Chair of the Hastings Prince Edward Board of Health, told council she will be taking part in a provincial meeting on the new health care plans on Friday.
