Fri Feb 16: Small Rural Hospitals Like Ours Feel Oversized Impact from Provincial Cuts - Letter

Plus: Suspicious person report leads to an overnight arrest for car theft and failure to comply

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A winter day in February, 2024. Photo credit: David Strutt

We typically don’t cover provincial or federal news here at The Owen Sound Current. There are a lot of other sources for that, and plenty happening here at home that we want to keep you looped in on.

But when it comes to healthcare, the decisions being made at the provincial level tend to have an oversized impact on the people of this region.

Even as I prepare this daily brief, Bayshore News has just published a new article announcing overnight closures at the Durham hospital ER due to staffing shortages.

In this new letter to the editor, Norah Beatty – co-chair of Grey Bruce Health Coalition – addresses the impact of provincial funding decisions on local care:

Full subscribers, there’s plenty more for you below, including:

• A police report on an arrest made after a man knocked on a stranger’s door after 1am in Meaford

• What’s open or closed on Family Day in Owen Sound

• A new report on national child poverty suggests we’re backsliding since COVID, which local data seems to confirm

• And a lot more

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