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MUHC will open facility with 83 fewer specialists

How did the MUHC end up here?

Cover story in today’s Montreal Gazette asks, How did MUHC end up here?  When the $1.3-billion superhospital opens officially in the spring it will operate with 83 fewer medical specialist as a result of a 2007 clinical reorganization plan by the Quebec Health Department.

Ignoring the changing demographics Health Minister Barette insists on maintaining the 2007 plan to which he states the MUHC mangers gave their blessing.  Porter was at the helm of the MUHC when the 2007 plan was accepted.  Arron Derfel writes, ..”the obvious question that springs to mind is whether Porter purposely lowballed MUHC clinical projections in 2007 to secure approval for the superhospital.

Read Arron’s complete story

It’s a jarring irony that’s not lost on the staff of the McGill University Health Centre.  Arron Derfel, Montreal Gazette

 

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