Subject: Nurse Practitioner: Digby Neck and Islands
Honorable Darrell Dexter,
Premier of Nova Scotia,
Provincial Legislature,
Halifax N.S.
Honorable and Dear Sir:
Some,- how many I am not sure-, have failed to meet the challenge of the day for the people on Digby Neck and Islands by failing to resolve compassionately and expeditiously the grave loss of a much loved Nurse Practitioner,MS.Karen Snider, who had chosen "to pitch her tent amongst us" and remain here.
This has gone on far too long without resolution.To leave a people in isolation for nearly two months without consistent and on-going health care is not only most unkind, but borders at least on the immoral and the criminal. It's bad enough that our local Hospital is being more and more diminished in ordinary services due tax-paying people, and leaving mainlanders often without comprehensive health care, but to leave people two ferry rides and another thirty plus minutes to Digby and then on to Annapolis Royal, and there to find out that its' out-patient department is closed too is hideous!
I well know that health care is costly, but it is a right nonetheless. I often think of the history of this province and conclude that others, as yourself in power, forget it. You know, Sir, that had it not been for the riches of the sea coupled with that from the mines and farms of the coastal regions of Nova Scotia over the course of centuries there would be no Nova Scotia as we know it today! Any government which fails to recognize and value that in 2009 is not worthy of holding office.
To not recognize this as a truth, and to fail now to serve the people in these regions which have in many ways been drained (the fishery to wit) of their last resource, is to forget the countless millions and billions of tax dollars which left these shores to build this province and this nation, and our rural neighborhoods.
Country people - and I was born one and plan to die one- do not demand a great deal. We expect not the amenities of the City nor the services so readily found there. We travel long distances to shop and get our necessary supplies. We don't mind that. That's the choice we made viz. to live in isolation and embrace a life style that suits our situation.
Many of us are seniors now and it appears that Governments and massive Institutions would have us move to large centers and abandon home, land, and sea so as to free up what's left of our home and space for the ultimate exploitation of anything which is left for the pickings. Here we've faced the ugliest prospects of geographical annihilation in the last few years with governments and business' choosing to impose without consultation, projects and enterprises without adequate and prior study and consensus with the people.That's no way to treat a people, our fellow human beings.
I thought the spirit of Tommy Douglas was alive and well in the New Democratic Party. Although I'd seen some signs in recent years that I could be wrong, I still believed your words and promises for proper services at our Out- Patient Departments across the Province. I'm an old man, Sir, and I've been two years or so without a family doctor. How stressful do you think it is,Sir, with no doctor to call my own,and what snub one feels when his Out-Patient Department is closed too much of the time? Hardly valued as a long-time paying taxpayer, that's for sure!
So back to the people on the Inslands with a winter lobster fishery just underway. What is Ms.Marueen MacDonald, and yourself so by extension, thinking? I've seen and read tales of "all due process is in place and has been followed." That's not very reassuring, Sir, to folks in Westport or Freeport/Tiverton who often meet injury at the whim and fancy of the storming sea in the middel of the night!
What are you thinking,Sir, when all that's offered are sporadic dates and hours - sometimes as little as an hour? The sea is cruel, illness strikes the young and elderly without appointment! Woe to he who misses an itinerant nurse some Wednesday! What are you thinking Sir?
It's time for reinstating Ms.Snider and to do what has to be done to keep her. The idea that the SWNDAH is incompetent, and in my mind, even unnecessary, is unanimous in these parts, and it is we who you are called to serve. "Can" the Board. They may be an added and unnecessary expense that can easily be done without. Righy here,right now, there is a structure to take on this responsibility. These are intelligent and capable people who can run their own affairs, and that I firmly believe, is a far superior and more compassionate way than the present from your Minister down.
I am gravely concerned about my neighbours, and equally so democracy.
Daniel Mills
9396 Waterford
RR 4, Digby NS
BOV 1AO
902-245-5171
Friday, December 4, 2009
turbines in the Fundy
Fundy turbine passes early tests
Underwater generator creates power, keeps its moorings
By JUDY MYRDEN Business Reporter
Fri. Dec 4 - 4:46 AM
The Chronicle Herald
Nick Murphy, project manager for Open Hydro, speaks Thursday at the Westin Hotel in Halifax. (Christian Laforce / Staff)
The first commercial scale tidal turbine in the Bay of Fundy is producing electricity and is staying secure to the seabed floor.
"It’s operating the way it ought to be," Nick Murphy, OpenHydro’s commercial manager, said in Halifax on Thursday.
His comment was the first update on the 400-tonne device since it was launched Nov. 12 in the Minas Basin by Nova Scotia Power and its Irish partner OpenHydro of Dublin, Ireland.
The data collected from the one-megawatt turbine is showing it is operational, rotating with the tides and producing energy, said Mr. Murphy. He made the statement after addressing about 150 members of the Offshore/Onshore Technologies Association of Nova Scotia.
The association represents more than 300 suppliers for the energy industry. It hopes there will be opportunities in the tidal business.
The open-centre designed turbine is sitting in 20 metres of water but is not yet connected to an underwater cable. Data is being transmitted using an acoustic modem system, he said.
"It was designed to withstand the currents and that’s the nice thing about tidal energy, the forces are very predictable, you know how fast the tide is going to be on any given day of the year," said Mr. Murphy.
If the testing continues to go well, the utility envisions putting 200 to 300 units in the Bay of Fundy, Nova Scotia Power executive Rick Janega said. That many units could generate 15 per cent of the province’s electrical needs.
"This would also be a great opportunity for fabrication," Mr. Janega told the crowd of energy industry suppliers.
Mr. Murphy said the scenario is a "definite possibility" with limited environmental impact.
He said the "sensible" next step would be to install five or six units, and then scale up to maybe 20 or 50.
Next week OpenHydro and the power company will begin assessing the environmental impact the test turbine has on the fisheries and current flow rates, said Mr. Murphy.
The tidal turbine, its tripod-shaped base, the barge that carried it and the deployment method were all designed by Open Hydro, a renewable energy company.
The base was fabricated by Cherubini Metal Works, a Dartmouth based company, for $1.7 million.
The initial turbine cost $10 million, with Nova Scotia Power investing the lion’s share and $4.6 million coming from Sustainable Development Technology Canada, a non-profit green energy foundation with offices in Ottawa, Toronto and Vancouver.
Two more turbines will be lowered to the bottom of the channel next spring along with the underwater power cable to carry the electricity.
The other developers are Clean Current Power Systems Inc. of British Columbia and Minas Basin Pulp and Power Co. Ltd. of Hantsport.
Minas Basin Pulp and Power is also building a $12-million demonstration facility, including underwater transmission lines that will take turbine-generated power to a building containing electrical equipment synchronized with the Nova Scotia power grid.
The building will also house a research laboratory that will help private companies and the province determine whether the turbine project is environmentally and commercially feasible in the Bay of Fundy.
After the three turbines are in place, they will generate three to five megawatts of electricity, enough to annually supply power to 15 to 25 buildings, each the size of a supermarket.
( jmyrden@herald.ca)
Underwater generator creates power, keeps its moorings
By JUDY MYRDEN Business Reporter
Fri. Dec 4 - 4:46 AM
The Chronicle Herald
Nick Murphy, project manager for Open Hydro, speaks Thursday at the Westin Hotel in Halifax. (Christian Laforce / Staff)
The first commercial scale tidal turbine in the Bay of Fundy is producing electricity and is staying secure to the seabed floor.
"It’s operating the way it ought to be," Nick Murphy, OpenHydro’s commercial manager, said in Halifax on Thursday.
His comment was the first update on the 400-tonne device since it was launched Nov. 12 in the Minas Basin by Nova Scotia Power and its Irish partner OpenHydro of Dublin, Ireland.
The data collected from the one-megawatt turbine is showing it is operational, rotating with the tides and producing energy, said Mr. Murphy. He made the statement after addressing about 150 members of the Offshore/Onshore Technologies Association of Nova Scotia.
The association represents more than 300 suppliers for the energy industry. It hopes there will be opportunities in the tidal business.
The open-centre designed turbine is sitting in 20 metres of water but is not yet connected to an underwater cable. Data is being transmitted using an acoustic modem system, he said.
"It was designed to withstand the currents and that’s the nice thing about tidal energy, the forces are very predictable, you know how fast the tide is going to be on any given day of the year," said Mr. Murphy.
If the testing continues to go well, the utility envisions putting 200 to 300 units in the Bay of Fundy, Nova Scotia Power executive Rick Janega said. That many units could generate 15 per cent of the province’s electrical needs.
"This would also be a great opportunity for fabrication," Mr. Janega told the crowd of energy industry suppliers.
Mr. Murphy said the scenario is a "definite possibility" with limited environmental impact.
He said the "sensible" next step would be to install five or six units, and then scale up to maybe 20 or 50.
Next week OpenHydro and the power company will begin assessing the environmental impact the test turbine has on the fisheries and current flow rates, said Mr. Murphy.
The tidal turbine, its tripod-shaped base, the barge that carried it and the deployment method were all designed by Open Hydro, a renewable energy company.
The base was fabricated by Cherubini Metal Works, a Dartmouth based company, for $1.7 million.
The initial turbine cost $10 million, with Nova Scotia Power investing the lion’s share and $4.6 million coming from Sustainable Development Technology Canada, a non-profit green energy foundation with offices in Ottawa, Toronto and Vancouver.
Two more turbines will be lowered to the bottom of the channel next spring along with the underwater power cable to carry the electricity.
The other developers are Clean Current Power Systems Inc. of British Columbia and Minas Basin Pulp and Power Co. Ltd. of Hantsport.
Minas Basin Pulp and Power is also building a $12-million demonstration facility, including underwater transmission lines that will take turbine-generated power to a building containing electrical equipment synchronized with the Nova Scotia power grid.
The building will also house a research laboratory that will help private companies and the province determine whether the turbine project is environmentally and commercially feasible in the Bay of Fundy.
After the three turbines are in place, they will generate three to five megawatts of electricity, enough to annually supply power to 15 to 25 buildings, each the size of a supermarket.
( jmyrden@herald.ca)
Thursday, December 3, 2009
From the Health Authority
South West Health
Serving Shelburne, Yarmouth and Digby Counties
Statement / Letter to Editor
Thursday, December 3, 2009
The Board of Directors of the South West Nova District Health Authority is made up of volunteers of various backgrounds from communities across Digby, Shelburne and Yarmouth counties.
Like all Nova Scotia health districts, South West Health is governed by a Board that is responsible for the overall strategic and policy directions of the organization. Therefore, it is unusual for a Board like ours to become involved in staffing issues such as the discipline or dismissal of an employee.
Our Board chose to become involved in the Nurse Practitioner issue on Long and Brier Islands because we were seriously concerned by suggestions the management of South West Health may have acted in an unfair or inappropriate way toward a former employee.
Our Board was given the opportunity to learn more about the events that led to this situation. Given the facts, our Board firmly believes the management of South West Health acted fairly, appropriately and professionally at all times.
All past and present staff of South West Health need to know their management team is required to respect their privacy, no matter what. This requirement for confidentiality extends to the Board of Directors.
We understand this situation has been difficult for the community, especially since the public does not have the benefit of knowing all the facts and circumstances that led to this decision. Understandably, there has been plenty of speculation and anxiety caused by South West Health’s commitment to respect personal privacy.
South West Health carefully followed the progressive discipline process required by the collective agreement, and even extended the probationary period to allow ample opportunity to work with the employee to create a successful employment relationship. It is important to note any unionized employee can appeal a decision of their employer if they feel they were treated unfairly or dismissed without good reason. This appeal, started by the employee, allows an independent arbitrator to look at all the facts and identify wrongdoing if any exists.
Our Board of Directors has full confidence in the management of South West Health. It is our hope that we now move forward together, and South West Health can focus on our number one commitment of providing safe and quality health services to all the communities we serve.
Gerald Pottier, Board Chair
South West District Health Authority
Serving Shelburne, Yarmouth and Digby Counties
Statement / Letter to Editor
Thursday, December 3, 2009
The Board of Directors of the South West Nova District Health Authority is made up of volunteers of various backgrounds from communities across Digby, Shelburne and Yarmouth counties.
Like all Nova Scotia health districts, South West Health is governed by a Board that is responsible for the overall strategic and policy directions of the organization. Therefore, it is unusual for a Board like ours to become involved in staffing issues such as the discipline or dismissal of an employee.
Our Board chose to become involved in the Nurse Practitioner issue on Long and Brier Islands because we were seriously concerned by suggestions the management of South West Health may have acted in an unfair or inappropriate way toward a former employee.
Our Board was given the opportunity to learn more about the events that led to this situation. Given the facts, our Board firmly believes the management of South West Health acted fairly, appropriately and professionally at all times.
All past and present staff of South West Health need to know their management team is required to respect their privacy, no matter what. This requirement for confidentiality extends to the Board of Directors.
We understand this situation has been difficult for the community, especially since the public does not have the benefit of knowing all the facts and circumstances that led to this decision. Understandably, there has been plenty of speculation and anxiety caused by South West Health’s commitment to respect personal privacy.
South West Health carefully followed the progressive discipline process required by the collective agreement, and even extended the probationary period to allow ample opportunity to work with the employee to create a successful employment relationship. It is important to note any unionized employee can appeal a decision of their employer if they feel they were treated unfairly or dismissed without good reason. This appeal, started by the employee, allows an independent arbitrator to look at all the facts and identify wrongdoing if any exists.
Our Board of Directors has full confidence in the management of South West Health. It is our hope that we now move forward together, and South West Health can focus on our number one commitment of providing safe and quality health services to all the communities we serve.
Gerald Pottier, Board Chair
South West District Health Authority
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
From Live Earth
Hello ,
LiveEarth TV Debuts Live Earth TV debuts today! Find out how you can make a difference and participate in Live Earth's 2010 Global Event. This is the first of several Live Earth TV webisodes leading up to the Run for Water on April 18th, 2010. Episode 1 features video from partners Global Water Challenge and Blue Legacy, with music by Paul Dateh & Ken Belcher and introduces Live Earth TV host Shira Lazar.
Click here to watch now and share.
White House Youth Clean Energy Forum
Today the Obama Administration is holding its first-ever Youth Clean Energy Forum with youth leaders from around the country. The event is being hosted at the White House today until 7pm EST, and will also be webcast to young people around the world at: www.whitehouse.gov/live. Transitioning to clean energy will create jobs, enhance national security and help protect our environment for generations to come.
Click here for more info.
UN Climate Conference Starts Monday
The world is gearing up the highly anticipated Copenhagen Climate Summit from December 7th-18th, which will be the most important meeting on climate change in history. Since we can't all be in Denmark to help rally the cause, there are plenty of ways to stay as informed as possible.
subscribe to Live Earth TV via iTunes. Click here to subscribe via RSS.
You can help solve the water crisis by participating in the April 18, 2010 Dow Live Earth Run for Water. Run/walk registration is now officially open! Sign up now at http://liveearth.org/run.
Thanks and be sure to visit us soon!
LiveEarth TV Debuts Live Earth TV debuts today! Find out how you can make a difference and participate in Live Earth's 2010 Global Event. This is the first of several Live Earth TV webisodes leading up to the Run for Water on April 18th, 2010. Episode 1 features video from partners Global Water Challenge and Blue Legacy, with music by Paul Dateh & Ken Belcher and introduces Live Earth TV host Shira Lazar.
Click here to watch now and share.
White House Youth Clean Energy Forum
Today the Obama Administration is holding its first-ever Youth Clean Energy Forum with youth leaders from around the country. The event is being hosted at the White House today until 7pm EST, and will also be webcast to young people around the world at: www.whitehouse.gov/live. Transitioning to clean energy will create jobs, enhance national security and help protect our environment for generations to come.
Click here for more info.
UN Climate Conference Starts Monday
The world is gearing up the highly anticipated Copenhagen Climate Summit from December 7th-18th, which will be the most important meeting on climate change in history. Since we can't all be in Denmark to help rally the cause, there are plenty of ways to stay as informed as possible.
subscribe to Live Earth TV via iTunes. Click here to subscribe via RSS.
You can help solve the water crisis by participating in the April 18, 2010 Dow Live Earth Run for Water. Run/walk registration is now officially open! Sign up now at http://liveearth.org/run.
Thanks and be sure to visit us soon!
Turbines in the Great Lakes?
NY seeking developer for Great Lakes wind project
(AP) – 1 day ago
LEWISTON, N.Y. — New York state is looking for developers to build and operate wind turbines in the Great Lakes.
The offshore wind turbines would be the first for New York and among the first in North America, depending on when they get up and running.
The New York Power Authority on Tuesday invited potential developers to submit their plans and expects to award one or more projects a year from now. The power authority wants to see wind turbines in Lake Erie, Lake Ontario or both producing between 120 and 500 megawatts of electricity by 2015.
The utility would buy all the electricity from the owner-operators as part of the state's goal of meeting 45 percent of its electricity needs through renewable power.
The turbines would be built two to seven miles offshore.
Copyright © 2009 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
(AP) – 1 day ago
LEWISTON, N.Y. — New York state is looking for developers to build and operate wind turbines in the Great Lakes.
The offshore wind turbines would be the first for New York and among the first in North America, depending on when they get up and running.
The New York Power Authority on Tuesday invited potential developers to submit their plans and expects to award one or more projects a year from now. The power authority wants to see wind turbines in Lake Erie, Lake Ontario or both producing between 120 and 500 megawatts of electricity by 2015.
The utility would buy all the electricity from the owner-operators as part of the state's goal of meeting 45 percent of its electricity needs through renewable power.
The turbines would be built two to seven miles offshore.
Copyright © 2009 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
The Munk Debates: Climate Change
Thanks to Tom Paton for this:
CBC AIRS CLIMATE CHANGE MUNK DEBATE WED. ON CBC RADIO ONE "IDEAS".
CBC's Ideas will re-broadcast the Munk Debate on Climate Change on CBC Radio One this Wednesday evening, Dec. 2.
"Munk Debates
Next Monday, the most important climate negotiations in 12 years will begin in Copenhagen. The goal of the United Nations conference is to lay the groundwork for a global treaty to cap greenhouse gas emissions and stem climate change. But in the lead-up to the conference, a debate remains over how grave the threat of global warming is, how much needs to done to fight it, and at what cost.
Those questions will be on the table at the Munk Debates in Toronto . George Monbiot and Canadian Green Party Leader Elizabeth May will be on one side. Bjorn Lomborg and Lord Nigel Lawson will be on the other. And they'll debate this proposition: Be it resolved: Climate change is mankind's defining crisis and demands a commensurate response.
Bjorn Lomborg is a professor at the Copenhagen Business School and the author of The Skeptical Environmentalist and Cool It. George Monbiot is a columnist with The Guardian newspaper and the author of Heat: How to Stop The World from Burning and The Age of Consent: A Manifest for a New World Order.
CBC's cbc.ca. Ideas will re-broadcast the debate on CBC Radio One this Wednesday evening, Dec. 2." CBC
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C02 levels in the atmosphere are climbing steadily higher. Some believe this is having a devastating effect on humans and nature, while others argue that the threat has been overstated. Is this the moment for a bold international treaty to curb carbon emissions? Or, are the social and economic costs of reducing C02 emissions too high in world where a billion people live on a dollar or less a day?
Just days before the United Nation’s historic Copenhagen summit the Munk Debates will tackle one of the great public policy questions of our time: how should the world respond to climate change?
Elizabeth May
“We need to look at all of Canada’s priorities, but we must address the climate crisis . . . if we fail to address it, nothing else we do makes any difference.”
George Monbiot
“The real costs of climate change are not measured in dollars and pounds, the real costs are measured in lives and in ecosystems . . . immeasurable.”
BjØrn Lomborg
“ . . . we are knowingly squandering colossal sums of money (on climate change) while fractional sums can save millions of lives right now.”
Lord Nigel Lawson
“We have entered a new age of unreason which threatens to be as economically harmful as it is disquieting. It is from this, above all, that we need to save the planet.”
The Munk Debates are open to the public. Tickets to the debates are $20 to $50 each. Seating is limited. Each event begins at 6:45 p.m. with a vote by the audience on the resolution being debated. The debaters then provide opening arguments and cross-examine each other. A question and answer period with the audience follows. A well-known moderator keeps the proceedings orderly. The debate wraps up with a summation by each debater and a second vote by the audience on the resolution. The final vote is tallied and the winning side announced at 9pm. CBC Radio's Ideas, The Globe and Mail and CPAC take each event's discussion to the larger public.
The Munk Debates is an initiative of the Aurea Foundation, a charitable organization founded by Peter and Melanie Munk to support Canadian institutions involved in the study and development of public policy.
The Munk Debates is organized by Rudyard Griffiths and Patrick Luciani, the co-directors of the Salon Speakers Series.
The Munk Debates benefit from advice and insights of an advisory board. Its members include Andrew Coyne, Devon Cross, Allan Gotlieb, George Jonas, Margaret MacMillan, Anthony Munk and Janice Gross Stein.
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CBC AIRS CLIMATE CHANGE MUNK DEBATE WED. ON CBC RADIO ONE "IDEAS".
CBC's Ideas will re-broadcast the Munk Debate on Climate Change on CBC Radio One this Wednesday evening, Dec. 2.
"Munk Debates
Next Monday, the most important climate negotiations in 12 years will begin in Copenhagen. The goal of the United Nations conference is to lay the groundwork for a global treaty to cap greenhouse gas emissions and stem climate change. But in the lead-up to the conference, a debate remains over how grave the threat of global warming is, how much needs to done to fight it, and at what cost.
Those questions will be on the table at the Munk Debates in Toronto . George Monbiot and Canadian Green Party Leader Elizabeth May will be on one side. Bjorn Lomborg and Lord Nigel Lawson will be on the other. And they'll debate this proposition: Be it resolved: Climate change is mankind's defining crisis and demands a commensurate response.
Bjorn Lomborg is a professor at the Copenhagen Business School and the author of The Skeptical Environmentalist and Cool It. George Monbiot is a columnist with The Guardian newspaper and the author of Heat: How to Stop The World from Burning and The Age of Consent: A Manifest for a New World Order.
CBC's cbc.ca. Ideas will re-broadcast the debate on CBC Radio One this Wednesday evening, Dec. 2." CBC
--------------
C02 levels in the atmosphere are climbing steadily higher. Some believe this is having a devastating effect on humans and nature, while others argue that the threat has been overstated. Is this the moment for a bold international treaty to curb carbon emissions? Or, are the social and economic costs of reducing C02 emissions too high in world where a billion people live on a dollar or less a day?
Just days before the United Nation’s historic Copenhagen summit the Munk Debates will tackle one of the great public policy questions of our time: how should the world respond to climate change?
Elizabeth May
“We need to look at all of Canada’s priorities, but we must address the climate crisis . . . if we fail to address it, nothing else we do makes any difference.”
George Monbiot
“The real costs of climate change are not measured in dollars and pounds, the real costs are measured in lives and in ecosystems . . . immeasurable.”
BjØrn Lomborg
“ . . . we are knowingly squandering colossal sums of money (on climate change) while fractional sums can save millions of lives right now.”
Lord Nigel Lawson
“We have entered a new age of unreason which threatens to be as economically harmful as it is disquieting. It is from this, above all, that we need to save the planet.”
The Munk Debates are open to the public. Tickets to the debates are $20 to $50 each. Seating is limited. Each event begins at 6:45 p.m. with a vote by the audience on the resolution being debated. The debaters then provide opening arguments and cross-examine each other. A question and answer period with the audience follows. A well-known moderator keeps the proceedings orderly. The debate wraps up with a summation by each debater and a second vote by the audience on the resolution. The final vote is tallied and the winning side announced at 9pm. CBC Radio's Ideas, The Globe and Mail and CPAC take each event's discussion to the larger public.
The Munk Debates is an initiative of the Aurea Foundation, a charitable organization founded by Peter and Melanie Munk to support Canadian institutions involved in the study and development of public policy.
The Munk Debates is organized by Rudyard Griffiths and Patrick Luciani, the co-directors of the Salon Speakers Series.
The Munk Debates benefit from advice and insights of an advisory board. Its members include Andrew Coyne, Devon Cross, Allan Gotlieb, George Jonas, Margaret MacMillan, Anthony Munk and Janice Gross Stein.
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More News on Fight for Nurse Practioner
Press release from Stephen McNeil, Liberal leader, and Junior Theriault, MLAMCNEIL: TIME FOR LEADERSHIP FROM PREMIER AND HEALTH MINISTER
(Halifax, NS) Liberal leader Stephen McNeil says the people of Long
Island and Digby Neck deserve action from the Minister of Health and the
Premier on the District Health Authority’s inability to restore the
services of their nurse practitioner.
“The Minister of Health has plenty of evidence that this valuable
health provider has the confidence of patients in that community, while
the administration of the District Health Authority does not,” said
McNeil. “The letter of confession that the Board tried to force the
nurse practitioner to sign is a clear indication of the lack of judgment
at play.”
The nurse practitioner did not have her contract renewed in October.
The community has been trying to negotiate with the District Health
Authority, but has been stonewalled in its attempts.
“The people know what they want – they want their nurse practitioner
back,” said area MLA Harold “Junior” Theriault. “The administration of
the Health Authority has bullied Karen Snider and tried to ruin her
reputation. It’s just not right.”
The community group has requested a meeting with the Minister of Health
this week. McNeil and Theriault have sent a letter to both Premier
Dexter and health minister Maureen MacDonald urging a meeting with Digby
Neck/Long Island residents prior to Friday, December 4th, 2009.
McNeil says the government’s “hands off” approach has failed. The
leader of the Official Opposition believes the methods employed by the
District Health Authority are both unprofessional and unacceptable.
“The people of Digby Neck and Long Island have been patient and
persistent in supporting their nurse practitioner, now it is up to the
Minister of Health to do her job and support the people of community,”
said McNeil.
Note from blogger:
And yet, see below
MacDonald supports health authority CEO
>>
>> Health Minister Maureen MacDonald says she has every confidence in the
>> CEO of the Southwest Nova district health authority after a Liberal MLA
>> called for his resignation on the weekend.
>> Digby-Annapolis MLA Harold Theriault said he has no faith in the ability
>> of Blaise MacNeil, in the wake of the firing of a nurse practitioner who
>> worked in a busy clinic on Long Island.
>>
>> Read the full story at
>> http://thechronicleherald.ca/NovaScotia/1155411.html
(Halifax, NS) Liberal leader Stephen McNeil says the people of Long
Island and Digby Neck deserve action from the Minister of Health and the
Premier on the District Health Authority’s inability to restore the
services of their nurse practitioner.
“The Minister of Health has plenty of evidence that this valuable
health provider has the confidence of patients in that community, while
the administration of the District Health Authority does not,” said
McNeil. “The letter of confession that the Board tried to force the
nurse practitioner to sign is a clear indication of the lack of judgment
at play.”
The nurse practitioner did not have her contract renewed in October.
The community has been trying to negotiate with the District Health
Authority, but has been stonewalled in its attempts.
“The people know what they want – they want their nurse practitioner
back,” said area MLA Harold “Junior” Theriault. “The administration of
the Health Authority has bullied Karen Snider and tried to ruin her
reputation. It’s just not right.”
The community group has requested a meeting with the Minister of Health
this week. McNeil and Theriault have sent a letter to both Premier
Dexter and health minister Maureen MacDonald urging a meeting with Digby
Neck/Long Island residents prior to Friday, December 4th, 2009.
McNeil says the government’s “hands off” approach has failed. The
leader of the Official Opposition believes the methods employed by the
District Health Authority are both unprofessional and unacceptable.
“The people of Digby Neck and Long Island have been patient and
persistent in supporting their nurse practitioner, now it is up to the
Minister of Health to do her job and support the people of community,”
said McNeil.
Note from blogger:
And yet, see below
MacDonald supports health authority CEO
>>
>> Health Minister Maureen MacDonald says she has every confidence in the
>> CEO of the Southwest Nova district health authority after a Liberal MLA
>> called for his resignation on the weekend.
>> Digby-Annapolis MLA Harold Theriault said he has no faith in the ability
>> of Blaise MacNeil, in the wake of the firing of a nurse practitioner who
>> worked in a busy clinic on Long Island.
>>
>> Read the full story at
>> http://thechronicleherald.ca/NovaScotia/1155411.html
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