Sylvia Jones made the comments as the legislature sat for the first time following the Progressive Conservatives’ re-election in June, and said individual hospitals work with Ontario Health to try to reassign staff and avoid such closures when they loom, but it happens “occasionally.”“No, I’m sorry, it is not,” Jones said. “So when there are ebbs and flows of a high incidence of people who are taking vacation — appropriately so — then we need to make sure that we have the systems in place.
The president and CEO of the Ontario Hospital Association said the organization understands that many Ontario hospitals are experiencing “an unprecedented escalation of staffing pressures right now” and are working to develop temporary measures to help maintain services.Article content “At this critical time, it is essential that everyone stand together and work to have a ‘Team Ontario’ approach to address the very challenging issues facing the health-care system.”
Source: Healthcare Press (healthcarepress.net)