Some financial help for Riverside Health Care as well.
It’s receiving over $1.3 million to offset some of the fiscal challenges faced when Rainycrest Long Term Care was prohibited from accepting new residents.
Kenora-Rainy River MPP Greg Rickford says he worked with the Ministry of Health and Local Health Integration Network to make it happen.
“And we walked through at the deputy minister and assistant deputy minister level, more importantly, and through our leadership at LHINS to bring everybody to the table. Break down where the challenges were, the problems were. Bring solutions to them because this isn’t just about money,” says Rickford.
Rickford says the situation was dire.
“(Had) Ted (Scholten) and his great team over there and senior officials in the Ministry of Health and Long Term Care, our leadership as a government, not been involved in this it would have been consequential,” says Rickford.
Part of the funding includes providing for the equivalent of six new beds at La Verendrye Hospital.
Rainycrest reopened to new admissions on March 11.