{"id":1418,"date":"2013-01-27T13:04:09","date_gmt":"2013-01-27T18:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/?p=1418"},"modified":"2013-01-27T13:04:09","modified_gmt":"2013-01-27T18:04:09","slug":"save-lachine-hospital-committee-launched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/en\/save-lachine-hospital-committee-launched\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cSave Lachine Hospital\u201d Committee Launched"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Lachine Hospital & Camille Lefebvre Pavillion
650 16th Avenue, Lachine<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Once a vibrant general hospital, the building at 3320 Notre-Dame west in Lachine now lies mostly empty with its mission unclear. The facility is one of many governed by the cash-strapped Centre de sant\u00e9 et de services sociaux de Dorval-Lachine-LaSalle<\/i> (CSSS).<\/p>\n

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Centre de sant\u00e9 et des services sociaux Dorval-Lachine-LaSalle (CSSS)
Ex-H\u00f4pital de Lachine
3320 Notre-Dame west<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

No one in Lachine wants Saint-Joseph\u2019s, which is celebrating its centenary this year, to go the way of its English cousin. Yet that\u2019s what stands to happen as donations drop, staff ask for transfers and Health Minister R\u00e9jean Hebert does nothing until the CSSS reports back to him by May.<\/p>\n

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Save the Lachine Hospital Committee<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

That\u2019s why local leaders, including: Fran\u00e7ois Ouimet, the MNA for Marquette; Claude Dauphin, the mayor of Lachine; Edgar Rouleau, the mayor of Dorval; and Jacques Filion, chairman of the Lachine Hospital Foundation’s board of directors launched a new \u201cSave the Lachine Hospital\u201d group two weeks ago.<\/p>\n

They are collecting signatures in their offices and at local libraries and community centres. They also want people to direct social media at Minister R\u00e9jean Hebert. They want Hebert to change his mind and let the Saint-Joseph-de-Lachine Hospital stay within the McGill University Health Centre (MUHC) network instead of being reintegrated into the CSSS. \u201cWe\u2019ll bang pots and pans if we have to,\u201d said Fran\u00e7ois Ouimet, the MNA for Marquette.Ouimet says that hospital leaders feel a great kinship to the MUHC and its members for years of support. Neither the CSSS nor CHUM responded when we cried out for help in 2005, he said. Only the Jewish General spoke up for us then. When our emergency was threatened in 2006, the community stood up and helped, but no one in the health sector cared. In 2007, the CSSS wanted to transform our entire hospital into a giant medical centre. \u201cWe wouldn\u2019t even exist now, if they got their way. We walked the streets then, and we\u2019ll do it again.\u201d<\/p>\n

Paul Saba, who grew up in Lachine and practiced medicine in the U.S., and at St. Mary\u2019s prior to joining St. Joseph\u2019s in 2004, says that no matter what happens, the Government of Quebec must honour the $66 million in promised infrastructure money they agreed to provide three years ago.<\/p>\n

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Paul Saba speaking to journalists<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cThere has been delay after delay since the money was promised to us in 2009,\u201d said Saba, who heads the organization representing 65 active Lachine Hospital doctors and another 60 medical associates. \u201cWe are the only Francophone hospital on the West Island. We\u2019re a smaller hospital, but we\u2019re essential to our community. We\u2019re asking the minister to do what\u2019s best for the hospital. We\u2019re saying to the leadership of the McGill University Health Centre (MUHC): you say we\u2019re a priority, put your words into concrete action. Give us local governance to ensure that our hospital can move ahead on its own projects.\u201d<\/p>\n

Saba has been delivering his message internally to the MUHC for months. He also met with Minister Hebert in November with the same demands. Instead of extra funds, the MUHC asked Lachine to cut 10 of their 50 long-term care beds. That decision was reversed by Hebert last week, but his heroism was quickly overshadowed when an earlier request to transfer the Lachine Hospital from the MUHC to the CSSS went public. Saba is confident that that decision too will be reconsidered.<\/p>\n

Note: This article appeared in The Suburban on January 16.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Once a vibrant general hospital, the building at 3320 Notre-Dame west in Lachine now lies mostly empty with its mission unclear. The facility is one of many governed by the cash-strapped Centre de sant\u00e9 et de services sociaux de Dorval-Lachine-LaSalle (CSSS). No one in Lachine wants Saint-Joseph\u2019s, which is celebrating its centenary this year, to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_wp_convertkit_post_meta":{"form":"-1","landing_page":"0","tag":"0","restrict_content":"0"},"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-island-report","post-wrapper","thrv_wrapper"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2buQs-mS","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1342,"url":"https:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/en\/lachine-hospital-celebrates-100-years-of-service\/","url_meta":{"origin":1418,"position":0},"title":"Lachine Hospital Celebrates 100 Years of Service","author":"Tracey Arial","date":"December 14, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Last Tuesday (November 30), the Lachine Hospital launched its centennial celebrations at the Camille-Lefebvre Pavilion on 16th Avenue in Lachine. 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