Is Your Health Care Going to the Dogs?

Cypress Health Region

I often wonder if the left hand has any idea what the right hand is doing when it comes to Cypress Health Region. Does the general public connect the inconsistencies in their messages? I hope so, because their quick, glossy answers are not fooling any of us service providers. On September 17, 2010 Cypress Region committed to increased nursing staff hours as a result of the change to 8 hour shift rotations. Yet when you see the real staffing levels in the long term care facilities on the blog – the total nursing hours do not even come close to those set out by the Health Region as necessary to perform essential services. Scroll lower and you will find they are not even meeting regular staffing levels. What’s that? When we did our rally objecting to their surplus (on our backs) they stated that there were no shortages in the SEIU-West units. Now they are closing services in Shaunavon over the upcoming weekend due to an absence of Lab/X-ray staff. They also stated in the Prairie Post some time ago that they had received more Registered Nurses than initially allotted. Yet they cannot get a RN to work in Shaunavon which is contributing to the closure of service. They don’t have any shortages, right? Don’t believe them!