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Liberal Appointees and Insiders Get Rich While Patients at Sydenham District Hospital Get Left Behind News WALLACEBURG – The Ontario PC Caucus has uncovered previously secret documents confirming that the McGuinty Liberal appointees on the Erie – St. Clair Local Health Integration Network (LHIN) were engaged in handing out the same kinds of untendered contracts that produced the infamous Liberal eHealth scandal. In total, Dalton McGuinty’s Erie – St. Clair regional health bureaucracy diverted more than $650,000 from frontline patient care and into the pockets of well connected consultants and insiders. This untendered contract spree is made all the more outrageous when compared to the ongoing controversy surrounding the possible closure of the emergency room at the Sydenham District Hospital. In addition to Liberal-friendly consultants, the McGuinty Government appointees on these regional health bureaucracies are also getting rich off of Ontario’s health care dollars. Between 2006 and 2009, total executive salaries at the LHINS increased by 213%. Today the average salary of a LHIN CEO is more than $261,000. Quotes “In a time when future ER services at the Sydenham District Hospital are actively threatened, it is unacceptable to see so much of our hard-earned health care dollars go down the drain. While local families were fighting for their hospital, Liberal friendly consultants, bureaucrats and health care executives were getting rich.” – Ontario PC Leader Tim Hudak “Dalton McGuinty’s LHINS remain unaccountable, unelected and anonymous regional bureaucracies that Dalton McGuinty hides behind whenever there are nurses to be laid off, emergency rooms to be shut down, or hospital beds to be closed. Dalton McGuinty’s model has failed Ontario patients and families and it has to go.” – Ontario PC Leader Tim Hudak Quick Facts One untendered contract with Keeler and Associates paid $650 per day to oversee other LHIN contracts. The firm Black Stone Partners received a $19,000 untendered contract from the Erie – St. Clair LHIN to create a “value based culture” at the LHIN. Black Stone quickly demonstrated this ‘value based’ culture by overbilling twice the amount of the initial contract – more than $38,000 in all. A Liberal-friendly consultant billed the patients and families $45 for a book entitled “Stop Rising Health Care Costs”. More Ways to Get Involved


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