The announcement by the Acting Chair of the PGH Board Jane Havens that the PGH and SJH Boards wish to end the tri-board agreement and go it alone has been a refreshing change in her focus to hear.
It appears she has abandoned trying to defend the CKHA Capital Plan, at least for now and instead focus on the tri-boards inability to get along, or at least not get along with the SDH board.
It’s not our fault.
That’s the message acting chair Jane Havens of the PGH Board wants everyone to believe in relation to the current situation between the tri-boards at the CKHA.
To portray themselves as the victims in all of this, accepting no responsibility for the current situation and blaming the SDH board as the catalyst for the PGH and SJH Boards wanting to dissolve the tri-board alliance agreement is just plain sad, but not surprising.
This current desire by two of the three boards to split may not be a bad thing, however for the PGH and SJH Boards to accept no responsibility in it is just another example of their single minded vision of what health care in Chatham-Kent should look like, regardless of what the public or for that matter anyone else thinks.
And if you disagree with them, well they just won’t talk to you.
Doug Babbitt
Wallaceburg
Ms. Havens proposal to the LHIN and Ministry for “irreconcilable differences” divorce terms from SDH is that there is to be no division of marital asses. Ms. Havens is proposing that PHG/SJH keep it all – including the Ministry provided $20+-million annually allocated to (but never properly distributed by the CKHA to) SDH.
An objective mediator would not proceed under those terms and it is more likely that the Ministry will appoint a supervisor to take control of PGH as Ms. Havens and her colleagues have proven not up to the task.
Great comments Doug!!