Officials at the regional hospital are relieved now that cataract surgeries are taking place again. However spokesperson Lori Marshall says the whole spectacle of the facility cancelling then reversing the decision was a valuable lesson about new government funding policies. She says they are now in a new era of funding and they are continuing to learn more and more all the time about how that will unfold into the future. Marshall says the procedures were reinstated because the local health authority and the Health Ministry managed to find the money to fund them for the rest of the budget year.
Tuesday, March 5, 2013
Hospital Adapting To New Funding Policies
Officials at the regional hospital are relieved now that cataract surgeries are taking place again. However spokesperson Lori Marshall says the whole spectacle of the facility cancelling then reversing the decision was a valuable lesson about new government funding policies. She says they are now in a new era of funding and they are continuing to learn more and more all the time about how that will unfold into the future. Marshall says the procedures were reinstated because the local health authority and the Health Ministry managed to find the money to fund them for the rest of the budget year.
