Tonight The Scarborough Hospital and Rouge Valley Health System are having their second public telephone town hall to discuss the benefits and risks of a merger.
The first town hall on September 24 attracted more than 8,000 participants.
The irony of this process is that it has provided incredible amounts of information but many have still come away feeling that they don’t have enough detail to make a decision to support or reject merger.
Scarborough CEO Robert Biron says there is no hidden agenda.
He is right. What we have are two large urban hospitals that are under similar pressures to 149 other hospital corporations in Ontario due to the province’s decision to freeze hospital funding at least until 2018.
Most, however, have decided not to examine formal merger to deal with the funding freeze as have these two hospitals.
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