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Methinks I should disclose that Lanteigne was the only dude who had his office call me back but he did nothing about my concerns before he found himself in hot water N'esy Pas?
https://davidraymondamos3.blogspot.com/2020/04/vitalite-ceo-announces-october.html
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/gilles-lanteigne-retirement-vitalite-health-network-1.5541543
Vitalité CEO announces October retirement
Gilles Lanteigne says retirement not related to ER closure controversy in February
· CBC News · Posted: Apr 22, 2020 5:33 PM AT
Vitalité Health Network CEO Gilles Lanteigne will stay on until October. (CBC)
The CEO of Vitalité Health Network has announced he will retire this fall, just months after calls for his resignation over a plan for the nighttime closure of emergency departments in several small hospitals.
The reforms, cancelled by the Higgs government just five days after they were announced in February, prompted several municipal councils in northeast New Brunswick to demand Gilles Lanteigne be removed as CEO.
Premier Blaine Higgs also suggested at the time he cancelled the plan that the health authorities weren't completely prepared to implement the changes, a criticism Lanteigne rejected.
Vitalité Health Network board chair Michelyne Paulin said Gilles Lanteigne's contract was up to expire on Aug. 10. (Submitted by City of Dieppe)
Board chair Michelyne Paulin said in a press release that Lanteigne's five-year contract as CEO was up to expire on Aug. 10 and he decided not to seek another term.
Lanteigne will stay on until October to let the board have more time to recruit a replacement.
He said in an interview that his decision to leave this year had nothing to do with the recent controversy.
"Absolutely not," he said.
"I truly am and continue to be very passionate about my work but at some point in life you have to move on."
"Overall I think the plan was very good and the components that were in there are still very valid," he said.
There were a number of personal attacks … as opposed to ideas. But we're still in need of a transformation. - Gilles Lanteigne, Vitalité Health Network.
Higgs cancelled the initiative five days after it was announced. He promised opposition MLAs ahead of a budget vote on March 13 that the emergency departments at the six hospitals would remain open.
Higgs said Wednesday he was surprised by Lanteigne's decision when he learned of it a day earlier.
"I got to know Mr. Lanteigne a little bit over the last year and certainly recognized the devotion he had to the Vitalité health system and our health system as a whole," he said.
Health reform resignation
In February, Vitalité board member Norma McGraw resigned, claiming that details of the controversial emergency-room plan had not been given to the board and put to a proper vote.That contradicted what Lanteigne told the legislature's Crown corporations committee a few days before, when he said there had been a vote on a resolution endorsing the changes.
It was not Lanteigne's first time at the centre of controversy. Last year, he was forced to respond to a damning report by the New Brunswick ombud about mistreatment and inadequate care at the Restigouche Hospital Centre in Campbellton.
And in 2017 he publicly lobbied against a plan by the Liberal government of Brian Gallant to outsource management of the extramural care program to Medavie Blue Cross.
'Personal attacks' and a need for 'transformation'
Lanteigne said Wednesday that health reforms are never easy and it takes several factors to line up at once for them to be possible. He said the fact the Higgs government doesn't have a majority in the legislature made the February reforms difficult to implement.But he said the only real opposition to the changes came from the communities where the emergency departments were located.
"The concepts and the ideas were never debated," he said. "There were a number of personal attacks … as opposed to ideas. But we're still in need of a transformation."
And he said nothing about the current COVID-19 pandemic had persuaded him to take a different view. "Quite the contrary," he said, arguing that Vitalité's shift from a four-zone approach to an integrated network-wide team plan helped the system respond better.
He said the creation of a new online portal for patients to check their coronavirus test results was an example of how the system has become "very, very agile."
"I'm seeing things that can be done when there is a crisis that we don't seem to be able to do in normal times," he said. "It reinforces that the orientation we had was the right one."
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David Amos
Methinks Higgy should agree that this is not rocket science N'esy Pas?
"In February, Vitalité board member Norma McGraw resigned, claiming that details of the controversial emergency-room plan had not been given to the board and put to a proper vote.
That contradicted what Lanteigne told the legislature's Crown corporations committee a few days before, when he said there had been a vote on a resolution endorsing the changes."
"In February, Vitalité board member Norma McGraw resigned, claiming that details of the controversial emergency-room plan had not been given to the board and put to a proper vote.
That contradicted what Lanteigne told the legislature's Crown corporations committee a few days before, when he said there had been a vote on a resolution endorsing the changes."
valmond
landry
David Amos
Reply to @valmond
landry: Methinks Trump thinks New Brunswick is a town in New Jersey and
he certainly cannot speak Chiac much to the chagrin of the SANB N'esy
Pas?
David Amos
Methinks I should disclose that Lanteigne was the only dude who had his office call me back but he did nothing about my concerns before he found himself in hot water N'esy Pas?
David Amos
Reply to @David Amos:
Methinks everybody knows that whereas I am being compelled to pay
Vitalité for its emergency room services instead of Medicare I am
certainly entitled to address my concerns with its boss and its board
They would do the same if Higgy kept a "stay" on their right to have a
Medicare Card or even a photo ID N'esy Pas?
David Amos
Methinks he says that so easily as he heads out the back door with a golden handshake from Higgy N'esy Pas?
"Lanteigne said he still believes in the need for the cancelled reforms, which would have affected Vitalité hospitals in Caraquet, Grand Falls and Ste-Anne-de-Kent as well as three Horizon network hospitals."
David Amos
Reply to @David Amos: "Higgs said Wednesday he was surprised by Lanteigne's decision when he learned of it a day earlier."
Yea Right
Yea Right
David Amos
Reply to @David Amos:
?In February, Vitalité board member Norma McGraw resigned, claiming
that details of the controversial emergency-room plan had not been given
to the board and put to a proper vote."
Methinks the SANB and everybody else knows that i talked to Norma McGraw on the phone and the PANB on live Rogers TV N'esy Pas?
Methinks the SANB and everybody else knows that i talked to Norma McGraw on the phone and the PANB on live Rogers TV N'esy Pas?
Lou Bell
Maybe job for
Msr.Cormier . You knoe , the up and coming star . Who needs experience
when one has a year of University , little experience , and ugly
occurrences on ones resume' !!
David Amos
Reply to @Lou Bell: Methinks you should take that bright idea up with your hero Higgy N'esy Pas?
Justin Gunther
Who's going to be called up against their will because they're easy to blackmail. Nobody wants this job. Literally nobody.
David Amos
Reply to @Justin Gunther: I would take it
Wally Manza
We will have to implement it, the province is near bankrupt now. Bank of Canada will need to buy up our debt.
David Amos
Reply to @Wally Manza: Good
Mary Smith
Reply to @Wally Manza: There is no need to shut down rural hospitals -- most actually MAKE money.
Use the doctors in rural hospitals to tele-doctor in to the urban hospitals. PEI has this and it has proved ENORMOUSLY effective. And this pandemic has shown that tele-care is something that we can do, and should do more of, moving forward. It's vital.
Win. Win. Win.
Having hospitals spread out ensures that patients are not DOA- dead on arrival, because time is everything in an emergency.
Having hospitals spread out is essential in a pandemic, look at Italy. If a virus spreads like wildfire in one hospital, at least there are other hospitals around that can take overflow patients.
Use the rural hospitals more efficiently. There are empty beds and wings that were closed that could hold overflow patients from the urban hospitals. Do this, but NOT at the expense of the rural hospitals. It will not save money to close rural hospitals, it will just shift problems around and cause new problems.
Most rural hospitals now already see so many patients from urban areas. Use them better and have clinics send lower triage patients to rural hospitals, rather than urban hospitals.
Use the doctors in rural hospitals to tele-doctor in to the urban hospitals. PEI has this and it has proved ENORMOUSLY effective. And this pandemic has shown that tele-care is something that we can do, and should do more of, moving forward. It's vital.
Win. Win. Win.
Having hospitals spread out ensures that patients are not DOA- dead on arrival, because time is everything in an emergency.
Having hospitals spread out is essential in a pandemic, look at Italy. If a virus spreads like wildfire in one hospital, at least there are other hospitals around that can take overflow patients.
Use the rural hospitals more efficiently. There are empty beds and wings that were closed that could hold overflow patients from the urban hospitals. Do this, but NOT at the expense of the rural hospitals. It will not save money to close rural hospitals, it will just shift problems around and cause new problems.
Most rural hospitals now already see so many patients from urban areas. Use them better and have clinics send lower triage patients to rural hospitals, rather than urban hospitals.
Marc LeBlanc
Yawn
David Amos
Reply to @Marc LeBlanc: Well put
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