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PETERBOROUGH –Peterborough seniors and families have learned the details of the Central East Local Health Integration Network’s (LHIN) plan to cut $26 million in frontline health care.

The LHIN-ordered peer review recommends cutting 71 beds and 151 full-time employees at the Peterborough Regional Health Centre – a facility that services 300,000 people in Peterborough and surrounding communities.

While local patients, seniors and families face drastic cuts to their frontline health services, the salaries and benefits for senior Central East LHIN employees continues to grow. The number of Central East LHIN senior staff on the Sunshine List (a list of highly paid government employees making over $100,000) has tripled since the LHIN was created in 2006. Those nine employees earned a combined $1.3 million in 2009 including the LHIN CEO who made $222,000.

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–Ontario PC Leader Tim Hudak

–Ontario PC Leader Tim Hudak

Quick Facts

• Since 2006, $11.3 million has been diverted from frontline care to administration at the Central East LHIN. Province-wide, over $176 million has gone to these regional health bureaucracies.
• The amount of Central East LHIN staff on the Sunshine List (a list of highly paid government employees making over $100,000) has tripled since the LHIN was created in 2006. Those nine employees earned a combined $1.3 million in 2009.
• The Chairman of the Peterborough Health Coalition, which hosted an April 7th ‘Save Our Hospital’ meeting, said the Central East LHIN has refused to hold a public meeting as part of the review process.