The bill is part of the government’s plan to move more publicly funded procedures, like hip and knee surgeries, to private facilities, both for-profit and non-profit
TORONTO — The Ontario government is moving forward with its plan to move more surgical procedures out of hospitals and into private facilities run by for-profit and non-profit providers.
The first step in the province’s plan, which is already in progress, was expanding out-of-hospital cataract procedures. A facility in Windsor began offering those procedures at an out-of-hospital site during the pandemic. In Ottawa, the for-profit Herzig Eye Institute has been given a license to perform 5,000 insured cataract surgeries annually.
This includes a requirement that they consult with local hospitals and submit a plan to the government for their health human resources that ensures they won’t strip resources from the public system, said Jones. “We have a crisis, but the crisis in health care is largely a staffing crisis,” said Stiles. Her party’s solution would be to pay health-care workers more and add shifts to the public system, she said. Neither opposition party opposes moving some surgeries from hospitals to independent centres, but both object to allowing for-profit companies to run them.
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