Sudbury's Health Sciences North has enjoyed many successes in the past year but there are still some serious challenges ahead, said hospital president and CEO David McNeil who took over running the hospital back in October.
Still, McNeil said, the situation is gradually improving and he commented on what he said were some of the "remarkable achievements" at the hospital in the past year. McNeil said the project is ambitious with a strong focus on mental health care, chronic care and children's care. "Our emergency department is too small for the patients we serve. Most mornings we have 28 patients waiting for a bed at seven o'clock before the day even starts," he said.
Despite all that, McNeil said there were some beacons of light shining through the darkness. He said the hospital's notorious payroll system "has reached a fairly stable state." McNeil was referring to the fact that hundreds of the hospital's 4,000 employees have endured a failing computerized pay system over the past two years that sometimes paid employees too much or not at all.
He said the cost of implementing the plan to solve that issue — My HSN — was estimated at $563,000 and has been included in the budget for the coming year.
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