Richmond Hill private surgery clinic seen as both threat to universal care in Ontario and the ‘future of healthcare reform’
2024-11-25 from yorkregion.com/
A building critics say will be the largest private surgical centre in Ontario, a place that will compete with public hospitals, is quietly taking shape in Richmond Hill.
Funded by a foundation linked to Dominion Bond Rating Service founder and philanthropist Walter Schroeder, the Schroeder Ambulatory Centre is a six-storey medical building on Leslie Street that wouldn’t seem out of place on any York Region hospital campus.
The Schroeder Centre isn’t a hospital, but if licensed by Ontario’s Health Ministry, thousands of surgeries a year could soon be done there, funded by public money.
That worries Michael Hurley, president of CUPE’s Ontario Council of Hospital Unions, who said the Schroeder Centre would entice staff from nearby hospitals to work for a higher salary, worsening shortages and wait times at those hospitals.
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