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Health and Community Services
April 30, 2013
 

Opposition Wants Status Quo, the Provincial Government Wants Better

The new Corner Brook hospital will provide residents of the western region with a state-of-the-art facility that incorporates best practices, enhanced models of care and services focused on the needs and demands of the population.
 
“The new hospital model will improve operational efficiencies and implement best practices which will ensure that we are providing the appropriate levels of care to patients, at the right time and in the right place,” said the Honourable Susan Sullivan, Minister of Health and Community Services. “The Member from the Bay of Islands has gone out of his way to misconstrue the facts, but that doesn’t change what we are doing. The new hospital complex will have more beds, it will be better suited to meet the needs of individuals who require long-term care and it will have a greater capacity to provide more surgeries than is possible today.” 
 
Over the next three years the Provincial Government will invest $227 million to begin construction of the new 260-bed regional acute care health facility in Corner Brook. Budget 2013 investments will allow this significant project to move into the design phase with construction expected to commence on the site in 2015.
 
“I have a hard time understanding why the Opposition Member is so against building this hospital,” said Minister Sullivan. “He has asked us repeatedly to build a facility that is responsive to the needs of the people on the west coast and that is just what we are doing. Suddenly, this is not what he wants. He wants to remain status quo, but our government is not about that, we are about looking to the future, we want more and better for Newfoundland and Labrador, and that is exactly what we will deliver.”
 

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Media contact:
Scott Barfoot
Director of Communications
Department of Health and Community Services
709-729-1377, 690-6290
scottbarfoot@gov.nl.ca
 
2013 04 30                                        5:25 p.m.

 
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