Posted Sep 29, 2008, 8:44 PM
|
 |
It's Hammer Time
|
|
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Hamilton
Posts: 19,915
|
|
Children-only ER approved
September 29, 2008
By Fariba Sahraei
Hamilton Health Sciences will go ahead with plans to convert the McMaster University Medical Centre into a children-only operation to improve care for kids.
The Local Health Integration Network (LHIN) voted this afternoon to approve the controversial proposal in which the McMaster's emergency department and intensive care unit will be closed to adults in three years.
"Certainly in health care, change is always very difficult ... Our challenge is to explain to them why we actually strongly believe this is in their best interest to allow us to provide the best care possible," Murray Martin, Hamilton Health Services president and CEO, said prior to the vote.
"We understand there are concerns in the community. We are listening to understand what those concerns are, and part of our responsibility, as we deliberate on the plan that has been proposed to us ... will be looking to the concerns that have been voiced by members of the community," Juanita Gledhill, chairperson, Hamilton Niagara Haldimand Brant Local Health Integration Network, said earlier.
|
Prev
Linear Mode
