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Province to examine SDH cash concerns provide the Ministry with a clear understanding of the overall capital plans Outgoing Sydenham put forward by the AlliDistrict Hospital board ance and a sense of the chair Jeff Wesley is hailing more immediate needs. a decision by the province We look forward to conto take a first-hand look at tinued progress on this the facility as great news. file.” Wesley said it was a “a Wesley met with officials from the Ontario Minis- step forward as the mintry of Health in May to istry will come to Walladiscuss the future of the ceburg and do an evaluation. This campus and is good, as provide in- “(This is) a step forwe will get put from ward as the ministry some claria Wallace- will come to Wallacety on where burg point burg and do an evaluwe stand.” of view. The SDH As a re- ation. This is good, as sult of that we will get some clarity board did not take m e e t i n g , on where we stand.” part in a reW e s l e y - Jeff Wesley cent mergreceived notification from Mi- er in which the Public chelle-Ann Hylton that General Hospital (PGH) “the Ministry is keen and St. Joseph’s Hospion assessing the state of tal (SJH), merged their the facility and getting a boards. Wesley said he sees better sense of the (Chatham-Kent Health) Al- merging the SDH board liance’s overall capital only when the Wallaceplans. As such, officials burg and Walpole Island from the capital branch First Nations communiwill visit the area over the ties believe they have a firm commitment from course of the summer.” Hylton notes that “while the Chatham-Kent Health this does not change the Alliance to the future viastatus of the hospital’s ap- bility of SDH. Continued on page 2 plication, it will serve to
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