Campbellford Memorial Hospital CEO Jeff Hohenkerk gives insight into the challenges facing rural hospitals in Ontario.
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Ontario’s healthcare crisis disproportionately impacts rural hospitals. That is a key message the Rural Ontario Municipal Association delivered in a recently released report.
In this interview, Campbellford Memorial Hospital CEO Jeff Hohenkerk can tell you first-hand how difficult it is to run a rural hospital. Keeping the emergency room open, recruiting doctors, addressing the concerns of nurses and mental health services, and an annual budget shortfall, the picture is not pretty. Still, not everything is doom and gloom. He will also describe the hospital’s ambitious plans to develop a Campus of Care that may go a long way to solve these issues.
Originally aired: Feb. 9, 2024
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