County Council Considering Large Grants to Hospitals
On June 7, 2021 the two County Hospitals – Northumberland Hills Hospital (NHH) and Campbellford Memorial Hospital (CMH) – asked County Council to grant them $1M annually for 10 years. It would be divided 75% to NHH and 25% to CMH. A special meeting was convened on September 29 to discuss the request but County Council asked for more information. The next step was that the Hospitals made a revised proposal on October 7 which changed the request to 1% of the County levy annually over an 8 year period. This is estimated to be a minimum of $5.9M. The money would be used for capital equipment and not for operations or interest. There is no mandate from the Province… Read complete articleCounty Council Considering Large Grants to Hospitals