FORT ERIE HOSPITAL CLOSING
PORT COLBORNE HOSPITAL CLOSING
HUGE WAIT TIMES IN ST CATHARINES, NIAGARA FALLS...
WELLAND SERVICES CUT...
BEFORE WE LOSE EVEN MORE HEALTH SERVICES, COME OUT TO THE THREE BIG EVENTS BELOW:
Saturday, April 18th:
RALLY TO SAVE OUR HOSPITAL SERVICES FROM CUTS !
Noon at MPP Jim Bradley's Office, Unit 2, 2 Secord Ave., St. Catharines. www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca
Tuesday, April 28, 2 pm
Attend the regional hospital GROUND BREAKING ceremony ! 2:00 p.m. St. Catharines Hospital Groundbreaking ceremony. LHIN NHS and Hospital supporters will be in attendance. AND SO WILL WE.
Location - Hospital building site 4th Ave. and 1st Street Louth, St. Catharines.
Directions - Martindale Road off the QEW, right on 4th Ave. across from Country Harvest Barn.
Bring bells, whistles, horns, drums, tambourinesto give a NOISY welcome to the start of construction.
For more information on the Ground Breaking Reception call Sue Salzer at 905-871-6723 .
Wednesday, April 29
GET ON THE BUS ! RALLY AT QUEEN'S PARK IN TORONTO.
We're taking our message directly to Premier Dalton McGuinty at Queen's Park.
Free buses leave CAW Hall at 124 Bunting Road St. Catharines at 9:30 am, arriving back at 3 pm.
Call Sue Hotte to reserve a spot on the bus 905-932-1646.
WRITE/CALL/EMAIL MPP Jim Bradley
Unit 2, 2 Secord Drive, St. Catharines, ON L2N 1K8
T: 905-935-0018 Fax: 905-935-0191
jbradley.mpp.co@liberal.ola.org
WRITE/CALL/EMAIL Premier Dalton McGuinty
Room 281, Main Legislative Building, Queen's Park, Toronto, ON M7A 1A4
T: 416-325-1941 Fax: 416-325-3745
dmcguinty.mpp.co@liberal.ola.org
VOLUNTEER with the Niagara Health Coalition:
Call Sue Hotte at 905-932-1646 or
Susan Howard-Azzeh at 905-984-6515
PLEASE INVITE YOUR FRIENDS TO THIS EVENT.
BACKGROUND
The provincial government is forcing cuts by their decision to fund hospitals at less than the rate of inflation and less than other Canadian provinces ($1.2 billion less). It is very important that Jim Bradley our local Member of Provincial Parliament hears from us in St. Catharines and Niagara, that we are concerned and want him to stop the cuts. Please email, phone or write Jim Bradley and tell him that we expect him to stand up for hospital care in our region and to stop the cuts.
CLOSING EMERGENCY ROOMS IN NIAGARA
The province is closing hospitals in Fort Erie and Port Colborne, downsizing medical services in Welland, closing surgical beds across the region to save money. Birthing and mental health services are being cut across the peninsula - all these patients will have to travel into St. Catharines, further overcrowding the hospitals there.
The Province is supposedly making these cuts to save money. Yet the new regional hospital slated for completion around 2013 in St. Catharines will cost 759 million dollars, up from the initial plan of 305 million dollars !! And when the entire mortgage is paid up after 30 years it will have cost 1.5 billion dollars... now that's government savings for you ! How will Fort Erie, Port Colborne, Welland residents get to a hospital in time for an Emergency ? Many may not. Lives will be lost.
This "restructuring" will result in a net LOSS of hospital services for our whole region.
