On Tuesday, Southlake Regional Health Centre in Newmarket, Ont. confirmed it will be laying off 97 registered nurses as a result of “a significant financial challenge.”
“These changes are aligned to the broader health-care system transformation underway in Ontario, which emphasizes moving care into the community where it is easier for patients and families to access.”
It’s funny how the bottom layer of every company takes lay-offs leaving organizations top heavy with managers who have no one to manage. It has happened in every organization since co-vid
Howww!? Don't they need nurses during this time
This can’t be right! In a pandemic some areas are desperate for nurses and Southlake is laying off?
How is this even possible unless: A. Hospitals are not nearly at anything approaching capacity. B. They aren't performing profit making private procedures that are being postponed. ?
What the hell?
I don’t understand. What? It’s a public paid system. You don’t lay-off nurses. Mr Ford better fix this and quick.
Maybe eliminate the bloated management structure instead of frontline workers
How can this happen in the middle of a second wave for crying out loud......not the best move, Trudeau and Ford.....we need our healthcare personnel all on board.....just my personal opinion🙏🙏🙏🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦😷😷😷😢😢
Bull shit!
How do we live in a Province where teachers get everything they want including full paid time off during Covid and summers when nurses, true frontliners, get laid off? Added to this the management teams in Ontario hospitals are grossly overpaid and staffed. Pick on them first
Did people bang their pots and pans as those nurses left the hospital? Maybe a CEO or management could take a pay cut once in awhile. Treat nurses like this and no one will be left to care for you.
Maybe cutting some of the overpaid management positions in the hospitals could free up some salary monies to keep nurses
'Best plan in the country' 💩
Is this government in a “Defund Health” by any chance right before our eyes and during a ‘Trudeau/Tam second wave’? Is it really what is happening? He is totally sold to china!
Guess the money doesn’t lie like the media. If they are laying off nurses during a so called pandemic then there is no such pandemic happening.
Makes no sense. We have public funded healthcare
Business is slow ... but COVID? Things that make you go hmmmmmm
Wow - with all the money out there that Trudeau has been passing out he can’t redirect to this critical need?
Really What are you thinking with all that’s going on?
Priorities are out of wack. Surely, the Bank of Canada can find a solution.
Math does not add up - Amid Pandemic isn't their shortage of Medical staff
2nd wave on the way: Tighter restrictions needed: A dire warning for all nations: Otherwise we will be doomed: 1. Work hours 11am to 7pm 2. Curfew 9pm to 6am 3. Restaurants take out only 4. Mandatory mask outside 5. Severe penalty for violation
Hospitals know how to play politics too. You betcha.
Was this hospital not in news about small child dying? This is terrible. Time to get rid of the big shots and let the real people do their jobs...
Sadly highly educated Registered Nurses are being pushed out and replaced by less educated, cheaper workers including RPNs and PSWs. Canadians deserve the most qualified Nurses. Those are RNs. RNAO ontarionurses
fordnation celliottability Incredulous! This is the Ont.PC’s “pulling out all stops” towards their goal of privatizing our healthcare. During a pandemic none the less! Shame!
That’s because there are no Covid patients in the hospitals and all the actual sick people are delaying treatment at the cost to their own health.
Their move in accordance with the provincial suggestion that doctors and surgeons work overtime due to the backlog of surgeries, this will explain why hospitals are doing this and think they are doing good but actually making things 10 times worse.
I still doubt it.
This sounds like a disaster in the making fordnation
Hmm, so maybe the curve is flat now?
They have got to be kidding me with their rampant stealing money from Canadians.
More like firing staff because they are keeping hospitals empty.
We prop our Health Care Community up to the rest of the world, and yes, we are proud of it. Then we read articles like this and remember that Politicians for years have been cutting funding for Health Care. Was there a time to make sure that money goes to healthcare its now.
Mr Ford, can you explain this...
This is fordnation creating further chaos to get the Feds to pony up more healthcare money. This crap from fordnation is so obvious. The media needs to report this..and think, if Ford hasn’t got a plan that works by now, giving him more $ won’t help us, just him. onpoli
Disgusting! And the province called them heroes two weeks ago.
fordnation HOW is this happening!?
So much bs management. No wonder ccpvirus is into its 2nd wave... 3rd wave?
fordnation really
Always looking for RNs in Northern Ontario
Because the Wuhan shutdown didn't do squat. It just caused more death & disabilities to non virus sufferers because of the lack of routine surgeries, home care, pre-screening testing, mental health treatment etc. Of course there would be no work for RN's, not enough patients
What you talking about Willis?
RN’s save lives. This is most likely a management issue as well as a health care system that is management “top heavy”.
Ok?
So much for calling them heroes...
Disgraceful! Where are all the millions of federal dollars gone given to Ontario to fight pandemic? Ford is squirrelling them away to fight next election.
What the fuck is going on we need them
Good ... Lying ass nurses stealing our tax money....... and you know that they know it’s a hoax 💯.... Nurses should be ashamed of themselves
Because the hospitals are empty. Cases going up, not deaths and those needing hospitalization. Cases are milder and being dealt with at home.
Great, so they are there when you really need them. Risking their lives to help us. And you can't keep them on for the next wave. and when it slows down. You put them out of work. Nice. Nurses really don't get paid enough. They are the healers.
So this proves hospitals AREN’T overwhelmed and can manage Covid cases, so why does the media insist on feeding us fear?
Maybe if they continued to treat all patients and not just hold beds for possible Covid patients they wouldn’t be in this mess. And fewer people overall would be dying.
OK Ford, time to open up your purse strings. Smh😠
Brilliant
Real news. With the fake pandemic hospital usage has declined substantially. So few people need hospitalization with china flu, no one is busy. People aren't getting elective surgery etc. Hospitals can't bill, so more layoffs coming. cdnpoli trudeaumustgo CommunismIsHere
Current Canadian Covid Death Curve.
And testing will still be an issue...umm they already have tons of experience why not shuffle around instead of laying off?!? This confuses me.
CTV, have you questioned Ford about this? What’s the reasoning?
during pandemic they can't find money to pay NURSES? GTFO fordnation
Now theirs ford logic at work Scare everyone that the pandemic is out of control than let the very resource you need get laid off due to lack of funding MAKES PERFECT TO ME
And this is just the beginning. We will be paying for this lockdown for 50 years.
So the Govt can open the money printing presses for everyone under the sun because...pandemic but can't pay nurses? More like plandemic
Meanwhile trudeau is still sending millions of $$ overseas....
nurses are dropping like flies. Over worked, sick and burnt out. They are quitting because stress. Some are getting sick and their numbers are shrinking without layoffs - I have never seen so much stupidity - bean counters are worse than used car salesmen.
Are you freakin’ crazy, what’s in your kook aid?
Covid19 hysteria = empty hospitals = people not getting healthcare.
Wow..just fucking wow.
Wooooow
Now it’s the time for Ford to save their jobs we need more Drs and Nurses during this virus outbreak!! 🙄🙄👎
Socialized medicine is a sustainable model
Didn't hospitals begged retired nurses to come back to work when this COVID crap started... I Hope the nurses that just got laid off tell this hospital to eat $ when they beg them to come back because of a 2nd wave.
Houses cost too much, people need to make too much to buy them. Nurses make too much but they need to to pay for our ridiculous cost of living.
Idiots
Wtf. That makes no sense
Typical conservative government 🙄 when shit hits the fan they go and hide and blame everyone else but themselves!
Sadly, I think Alberta is close to doing similar. It is unfathomable.
I’m an asshole when I say this...kinda hoping my ex was in the bunch.
Now we see the real pandemic. Layoffs at most government jobs in the near future......
Wasn’t there a “let me be clear.... no one will lose their job because of covid” promise from our Gov friends
Probably not enough work. I mean they did have time to make all those titanic videos
While bozo buys for billions of hotels & motels.
What?, This is unbelievable!
1,000,097 jobs now.
What a surprise a conservative governments cutting health care during a pandemic, education is next.Stop voting against your own self interest!
That's a surprise...no money. That's because, we as a country, are bankrupt
Terrible any CEO cut backs or take a wage cut
And this makes zero sense what so ever if our hospitals are going to be inundated with another second wave Wuhan flu .
15 days to flatten the curve and not overwhelm our care facilities. Success!
haha scamdemic imo
Callous idiots😡😡😡😡
Laying off taxpayers so the federal government could just keep on handing out money without even screening the applications. Good plan for bankrupting the country eh!
They will hire them back as part time. This is to cut paying benefits. Typical management.
Pandemic my ass. .00006% is not a serious matter.
We're in the middle of a pandemic, but we are laying off nurses? Um does that make sense?
Ummmm. What? Syntax error: Does not compute.
As long as the CEO and upper management gets their cash all will be good.
This is total BS. Health care provincial. Billions sitting in queenspark unspent from federal government. Another con reality
Because there is literally no one in the hospitals!!!!
This is ridiculous! Nurses are the only good thing about our healthcare system.
But who will do Tik-Tok dances for our entertainment?
What could possibly go wrong.
Concerning can the help in long term care homes?
WTF?
Yes because hospitals are dead! This is getting ridiculous. Open the country now.
So I guess we are all back to normal!!!! Liberals laying off people they need! Why are we not laying off the government
When we're at a time in life where we're NEEDING everyone of those laid off nurses. B.S reasoning behind this. Just when you thought it couldn't get anymore stupid out there..BAM! We get proven wrong
The financial issues is likely all the overtime they are paying nurses so they get 1 1/2 Times their salary or DT! So less nurses makes for more OT and this actually costs more but they can’t figure that out! More Nurses saves money not less! 🙄
Buck a beer though
What about the field hospitals? 🙄
Not just nurses. HR, clerical staff, support staff. This is an excuse for terrible management.
so you are saying COVID really isn't filling our hospitals like you have been tweeting about over the last 6 months
What the hell?
Why are nurses the first to go? They are the primary caregivers in a hospital!
O M G really do we need more nurses in pandemic but they laid off nurses. WOW
Southlake needs more money so they can rehire them as RPN's.
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