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Hamilton Health Sciences “not financially sustainable,” says CEO
(Hamilton Mountain News, Kevin Werner, Mar 25 2016)

Hamilton Health Sciences president and chief executive officer Rob MacIsaac says the healthcare facility will close a campus before it builds a needed urgent care facility on the mountain.

Appearing before Hamilton politicians last week to talk about HHS’s 20-year plan, MacIsaac said HHS needs to invest up to $60 million in capital funding annually to keep its buildings sustainable. Yet, last year HHS invested only about $20 million.

“There is a backlog of deferred maintenance,” said MacIsaac. “I can’t stand by and let the hospital fall apart. It will take some time to say when HHS is sustainable.”

MacIsaac said HHS’s 20-year plan includes possible “consolidation” of its hospitals and campuses. He said some of the facilities over the next couple of decades “will have outlived their usefulness.”

It’s a similar message that he delivered to about 70 health care officials during a “summit” in February at the Hamilton Convention Centre. At that event, MacIsaac said within a decade HHS will have to close a facility.

HHS is one of the largest hospital networks in Ontario, with seven hospitals on six sites, three centres, and one research institution, all with a budget of about $1 billion.


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