Group Health seeks $11M in ministry funding to avoid losing more patients

Two weeks before the Group Health Centre announced it was dropping 10,000 patients from its roster, the CEO sent a blunt letter to local MPP Ross Romano — laying out the “devastating” situation and lamenting that Ontario’s Ministry of Health had still not approved nearly $11-million in funding requests from the organization.In her Jan.

The letter was released by Group Health in response to a freedom of information request by researcher Dax D'Orazio, who shared it with SooToday. Silvano noted at the time the letter was written, primary care at GHC was being delivered by 48 providers: 43 family physicians and five nurse practitioners.Silvano said an additional 6,000 patients remain at risk of being de-rostered due to a lack of new primary care providers being recruited.

“Mostly from the extraordinary amount of administrative work they are doing — time that could be better spent seeing patients,” she said. “We find ourselves at a critical juncture,” Silvano said. “Our interim solutions are faltering, and we are now in the position that we will be notifying 10,000 patients that they will no longer have access to their family physician due to the departure and retirement of several PCPs.”

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