Pinecrest\u002DQueensway Community Health Centre is terminating two family physicians, a nurse practitioner and a registered nurse.
The two family physicians, a nurse practitioner, and a registered nurse were given notices of termination without cause in April. Their last day of work is July 29.
“They work with some of the most marginalized folks in our city. I am very concerned at what I am hearing,” Ottawa Centre NDP MPP Joel Harden said of the terminations. “I am devastated that she is leaving,” she said. “It affects me medically. I am very concerned they are taking away a person who knows me and knows my file.”
But observers, health providers and former and current workers are concerned about the disruption and inability to replace experienced staff at a time when it is difficult to hire. “We know at the centre we need to see 2,500 more health-care clients and we know we can do that without new funding.”Article content
The current and former workers said they are worried about how disruptive the move will be, especially to vulnerable clients. They are also concerned about the extra pressure it might put on others working at the centre. There are many members of the city’s Franco-African immigrant community in the Pinecrest Queensway catchment, Eyre said. For them, being able to get services in their own language is crucial.
Eyre, like Harden, said she was baffled why the centre would be letting people go as part of a restructuring during a pandemic, a health human resource crisis and some of the biggest pressures the province’s health system has ever experienced. They say it can be difficult to hire doctors to work in community health centres because the work is demanding and seldom ends with appointments. Burnout levels are high, they say.
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