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Thursday’s article by Savannah Awde presented great news for Fredericton; Urgent Care in the greater Fredericton area finally! I have been envious as I travel to visit family in the US and see that they can access Urgent Care in minutes and be in and out with treatment and prescription in an hour or less. All right, it is not a socialized system but surely the principles of innovation and meeting public need must rank somewhere in public policy priority even in socialized systems.
The saga in Fredericton has been a long story and I commend the Horizon officials for getting to it. Those who experience those long waits in Emergency Departments for an intervention that sometimes may take 10 minutes may be able to breathe a sigh of relief. But let’s give them time to work out the wrinkles that inevitably will be there.
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Premier Higgs is a professional engineer and engineers and accountants have one thing in common: numbers and formulae. And it is good that they do or the world would be in a bigger mess than it is.
What was eye-catching, however, was the headline on Wednesday, November 8, 2023 that said: No Politics in Hospital Decision. According to the article, he was referring to his meeting with doctors in Fredericton who had expressed frustration that the new, multi-million-dollar Surgical Suite project at DECRH would not include state of the art imaging equipment. Apparently, the equipment that makes it a hybrid Operating Room will be going to Saint John Regional instead even though the Chalmers Foundation is interested in raising the funds to purchase the equipment required to create the hybrid status. Does that sound familiar? “If you don’t know where you are going, any old road will do”, so says the oft-quoted quip from Lewis Carroll. I have attended many planning and strategy sessions in which that was used to get audience focus on clarity of vision and plans.
David Duplisea, the CEO of the Saint John Region Chamber of Commerce said it well in his Brunswick News article on Saturday, October 28, 2023. Commenting on the lack of a visible plan for critical issues in the province, of which he named health as one important one, he said: “it’s time to put the cards on the table.” His article went on to observe the great successes of fiscal prudence with surpluses and paying debt while issues of health care and others continue to dog our society and economy with no apparent plan. |
AuthorKen McGeorge, BS,DHA,CHE is a career health care executive based in Fredericton, NB, Canada. Archives
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