The majority of Ontario’s 136 hospitals including the Dryden Regional Health Center have carried operational deficits since 2022.
That’s according to a new report from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.
Senior Researcher Andrew Longhurst says that puts strain on the hospital attracting and keeping health care professionals.
“The concern here is that these multi-year deficits, year after year, are really putting hospitals in a position where they’re not able to think about increasing staffing levels and hiring new staff, but instead, they have a mindset of ‘how do we cut costs’.”
Longhurst points out that the Dryden Regional Health Center is among the hospitals that have registered recent deficits.
“We have seen Dryden Regional Health Center in deficit for three of the last three fiscal years. For smaller hospitals and health centers, these have significant impacts.”
The information is contained in a report called Failure, By Design: Ontario’s deepening hospital funding crisis.
