The SouthEast Local Health Integration Network has slammed the door on a provincial reviewer considering the Murphy-Walsh report as part of the overall examination of Quinte Healthcare’s finances.
That resolution was approved at last week’s Q-H-C board meeting, but Spokeperson Susan Rowe says the LHIN responded yesterday that it would not permit the review to include Murphy-Walsh, a separate incentive to save millions of dollars.
Rowe says the board won’t make any decision on how to respond to LHIN until the next board meeting on December 17th.
One of Murphy-Walsh’s recommendations was to have Registered Practical Nurses take over some of the current hospital functions now done by Registered Nurses…
