Opinion: The Public Hospitals Act, which hasn’t changed substantively in several decades, remains stubbornly resolute in its approach of having hospitals managed independently. This has created perverse disincentives to regional collaboration.
Forever ago when I started my medical career, our public hospitals were seen as stalwart supports of the health care system: relied upon for world-class care for Ontarians. Over the ensuing decades and in the aftermath of the pandemic, these same institutions have emerged bruised, battered, and beaten. Years of resource erosion and fragmentation have taken their toll, and a health care worker crisis weighed heavily on service delivery.
Amid this evolving landscape are Ontario hospitals, isolated and each serving separate masters. The Public Hospitals Act, which hasn’t changed substantively in several decades, remains stubbornly resolute in its approach of having hospitals managed independently. This has created perverse disincentives to regional collaboration through the establishment of barriers between hospitals, regardless of how well-intentioned its individual members are.
In our existing system the decision framework is much more complicated. Even if hospital leadership becomes somehow aware that excess capacity is available regionally , two separate corporations with two separate boards and two separate budgets would somehow have to involve two separate corporate bureaucracies and two separate governance approvals to make it work.
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