Article paru dans le Standard-Freeholder, le quotidien
de Cornwall. Ils vont venir recruter de MD � Montr�al!

Il va y avoir une fusion des 2 CH, et ils vont
concentrer tous les soins � l'H�tel Dieu, le G�n�ral
va devenir un genre de polyclinique. Les transferts
STAT se font vers Ottawa, par h�licopt�re
gouvernmental, pr�hospitalier avec soins avanc�s et
l'h�pital est aussi le contr�le m�dical pour
Prescott-Russell et Stormont-Dundas-Glengarry.

Salutations

St�phan Gascon

http://www.standard-freeholder.com/webapp/sitepages/content.asp?contentID=18748&catname=Local+News

Doctor recruitment task force to hit Montreal

By Sultan Jessa 

Wednesday, January 08, 2003 - 10:00 

Local News - Cornwall�s doctor recruitment task force
is preparing for a tour of Montreal to recruit family
physicians and specialists. 

The first �out of the province� tour for 2003 is
scheduled for Feb. 18. 

Dr. Raymond Legault, co-chair of the task force, said
Monday they need three to four family physicians and
some specialists. 

He declined to comment, at this time, on what
specialists the community needs. 

Legault said a lot of people from Ontario and other
provinces as well as people from the United States
will be in Montreal next month to recruit doctors. 

�In the past, our trip to Montreal has been quite
successful,� he said. �We have attracted one or two
physicians from Quebec.� 

Legault hinted many Quebec physicians are currently
contemplating to move out of the province. 

The recruitment tour of Montreal is in addition to the
annual trip the task force regularly makes to Ottawa,
Kingston, Toronto, London and Hamilton. 

Funding for the tour comes from the Mayor�s Task Force
on Medical Recruitment and partly from Ontario�s
Health and Long-Term Care Ministry. 

Legault said it is not unusual for them to get calls
from physicians in the Montreal area sometimes months
after the recruitment tour. 

Meanwhile, Dr. Nasser Beshara from Ottawa is helping
with obstetrics and gynecology in Cornwall. 

Legault said another physician, Dr. Victoria Young
from Newfoundland is setting up a walk-in clinic in
the city. 

This year, the task force is armed with an exciting
new development which will eventually provide all
acute care from a single site. 

The recruits will be told about the new hospital
restructuring plan for Cornwall. 

The proposal, from the Religious Hospitallers of St.
Joseph (RHSJ) Health Centre of Cornwall, calls for
transfer of ownership of the McConnell Avenue property
to the yet-to-be-formed community corporation. 

The proposal also includes continuing provision of
long-term care and chronic care in a redeveloped St.
Joseph�s Villa on York Street. 

The task force covers travelling expenses for doctors
coming to look at Cornwall, as well as moving expenses
for the doctors who decide to locate in the city. 

A number of other Ontario cities have the same type of
task forces in place. 

Paul Fitzpatrick, the city�s manager of economic
development, said the city set aside $250,000 in the
1999-2000 budget for medical recruitment. 

Part of this money was used to set up the Family Group
Medical Practice at the Time Square. 

Physicians locating to the community are provided
rent-free space as an incentive. 

Fitzpatrick said the city still has $80,000 left in
the budget for medical recruitment. 

The Religious Hospitallers of St. Joseph Health Centre
of Cornwall and the Cornwall General Hospital are
partners in this joint venture, picking up some of the
rental expenses for the medical group practice. 



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