THUNDER BAY – A dozen Northwestern Ontario hospitals are on track to receive a total of $9 million in top-up funding from the province.
A news release issued late Monday afternoon by MPP Bill Mauro (Lib., Thunder Bay-Atikokan) announced the added dollars, which according to the release are part of the 3.1 per cent hospital funding increase that had been proposed in the budget that was unveiled late last month.
But the increase for the Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre, which is slated to receive about $197.7 million in base funding, amounts to just around two per cent. The largest health care facility in Northwestern Ontario will get an additional $4 million.
The budget outlined minimum two per cent increases for every one of Ontario’s 141 public hospitals.
Also in Thunder Bay, St. Joseph’s Care Group will take in $2.3 million more to complement their base funding of $86.8 million, which works out to 2.5 per cent.
Across the region, the Sioux Lookout Meno-Ya-Win Health Centre is in line for a $633,300 increase and Lake of the Woods District Hospital will get $555,011, both amounting to the the minimum two per cent.
