A Wallaceburg councillor is offering up a free dinner to anyone with information on the current survey being conducted for the Chatham-Kent Health Alliance.
“A reward of dinner is offered to the person who can provide a copy (written or verbal) of the current survey being undertaken by a professional polling firm on behalf of and paid for by the CKHA,” said Jeff Wesley, in an e-mail sent to the media.
“I continue to receive calls from residents (Chatham and Wallaceburg) who have been contacted and they tell me the survey is very biased against (Sydenham District Hospital.) I want to judge that for myself.”
The CKHA said in a press release the hospital has engaged public opinion research firm, Ipsos, to collect a representative sample of the perceptions and views of citizens across Chatham-Kent.
The survey seeks to gather information regarding the community’s opinion related to a wide range of topics including access, quality of care, personal experience, reputation and new models of care, CKHA officials stated.
Individual responses and data will not be shared with the hospital and the survey will take about 15 minutes to complete. The survey is being done by telephone and is expected to be complete by the end of June. A representative sample of Chatham-Kent residents will be contacted, CKHA officials stated.
Wesley said both the CHKA and the polling firm have refused to tell the community what questions they are asking.
“If you harken back to the big ‘clicker’ event at the Wallaceburg high school over 1,000 people witnessed what happened when the CKHA posed leading questions to the audience,” Wesley said.
“All I want to see are questions… maybe I will get called and surveyed, I doubt it.”
Wesley is asking people to send their evidence to his council email at Jeff.wesley@chatham.kent.ca.
“A free dinner is your reward,” he said
Colin Patey, president and CEO of the CKHA, stated he is extremely interested in hearing the collective voice of the community.
“By engaging a highly respected third party organization to conduct this research, we will have unbiased and representative data from our community about our organization,” Patey stated.
“We encourage anyone contacted to complete the survey and to provide their personal and honest opinion to the questions asked. The opinion of this community is of great interest and value to the Alliance. We look forward to receiving the results of this important engagement activity from Ipsos later this summer.”
CKHA initiated the community survey process in March and followed Broader Public Sector Organization (BPSO) guidelines for the procurement of services.
For this project, CKHA used a competitive “request for proposal” process which requires the organization to engage the lowest cost vendor that meets the requirement.
CKHA adheres to BPSO guidelines and will disclose the full cost of the initiative once completed.
The hospital is pleased to be working with Ipsos on this important initiative, which will provide a baseline of information that the hospital can measure itself against in future.
My number is not listed and so are many others that use cell phones or have their numbers unlisted, so how is this survey truly going to work?
There are so many phone scams out their right now so who are we to trust?
I believe that more thought should have been put into this.
I am thankful for the tenacity and vigor with which Councillor Jeff Wesley is pursuing the truth in this matter. It would seem they have no idea who they’re messing with. Jeff is a thorough professional with years of experience uncovering deceit and wrongful action by self serving bureaucrats. Please help Jeff and forward the survey questions to him so that he can expose any bias that these bureaucrats have foisted on us in the guise of this survey.
I have a Survey that was sent in the mail to us if you want to have a look at it. Not sure if that is what you are looking for.