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May

CAMPP ASKS FOR OPPORTUNITY FOR MORE THAN THREE RESIDENTS TO SPEAK AT LHIN BOARD MEETING

The citizens group CAMPP is concerned that general public is not being provided with meaningful opportunities to register its concerns regarding the Windsor Essex Hospitals Plan.

The group Citizens for an Accountable Mega-Hospital Planning Process (CAMPP) has serious concerns about the speaking arrangements for the LHIN’s Open Board meeting on May 24, 2016, which limits the number of residents who may address the Board at its “open mic” to three people who will only be allowed to speak if they are not affiliated with CAMPP.

In an email sent on May 18 to CAMPP by the Chair of the LHIN Board, it was explained that a maximum of three registrants will be allowed to address the Board for a maximum of 5 minutes each at next week’s Board meeting at the Caboto Club, and which will start at 6pm on May 24, 2016.

Philippa von Ziegenweidt—Spokesperson for CAMPP, said, “The Erie St Clair LHIN has not held a single Board meeting in Windsor in two years, even though ours is by far the largest population under their jurisdiction. It was only after numerous requests and a lengthy process that they agreed to hold one here. Windsor-Essex residents have not had a single opportunity to register their concerns to decision-makers regarding the proposed Hospital and its satellite facilities. For this $2 billion hospital decision, it is critical that the public be provided plentiful opportunities to express their concerns in a transparent and open forum that is free of bias.”

According to the Local Health System Integration Act, the Erie St. Clair LHIN has a legal mandate to engage the community of diverse persons and entities involved with the local health system. The LHIN is accountable to the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care, which has a mandated goal to be the most open and transparent government in the country and to work both for and with the people of this province.

Transparency and openness are essential to ensure the best decision for a hospital system to serve our community for generations to come. Our group believes that the proposed Windsor Essex Hospitals Plan is critically flawed, and we know that far more than 3 residents are interested in addressing the Board.”

CAMPP groups its concerns with regard to the proposed hospital plan around the acronym “ACUTE”:

Access to hospital healthcare services
Cost to the community
Urban vitality
Transparency and public consultation
Environmental sustainability

CAMPP is a group of concerned citizens that came together in 2014 to ensure that the Mega Hospital is built with the community’s best interest central to the process. It has always worked to bring greater transparency and accountability to this process in order to ensure that the community understands what is being proposed and the range of possibilities to the fullest extent possible. For further information, please contact: Philippa von Ziegenweidt (519-974 2789)

For a copy of the LHIN’s letter as well as CAMPP’s response, please read online.

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