Ramara Physician Recruitment & Retention
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Ramara Township council has decided that they will not support Ramara Township's 2019 commitment of $8,000 to the Physician Recruitment & Retention program. This decision was made despite the Community Physician Recruitment Liaison informing Ramara Township council that there are close to 1800 Ramara Township residents who now have access to medical practitioners in our area thanks to the Physician Recruitment & Retention program efforts over the last 7 years. There are between 8,000 and 9,000 registered taxpayers in Ramara Township. The commitment to the Physician Recruitment & Retention program is $8,000 per year or less than the cost of a cup of coffee per tax payer.
I don’t know about you, but I would like to be part of a community who wants to attract a variety of medical practitioners into our area to start their practices or retain existing medical practices.
We can join together and continue to support Ramara ’s contribution to the Physician Recruitment & Retention program with a small donation.
With the combined financial support from Oro-Medonte, Severn, Orillia, Rama and what we can raise for Ramara we stand a better chance of locating and attracting quality healthcare into our area, with Orillia as the hub. A variety of medical practitioners have been drawn to Orillia and area where they now practice and have access to the Soldiers Memorial Hospital, as well as many other facilities. The Ramara residents who are seen by medical practitioners in Orillia have benefited from the Physician Recruitment & Retention program.
Opting out of support for programs like Physician Recruitment & Retention and other community based programs simply diminishes the health care opportunities for all citizens who would jointly benefit, and undermines the viability of our communities. Not participating in collaborative health care initiatives clearly compromises the pursuit of well planned development in Ramara Township.
Doing nothing to address the shortage of rural physicians is pretty much guaranteed to produce nothing. The Northern and Rural Recruitment and Retention (NRRR) initiative offers taxable financial incentives to each eligible medical practitioner who establishes a full-time practice in an eligible community of the province. Please see the following link to the Health Force Ontario Northern and Rural Recruitment and Retention Initiative Guidelines.
http://www.health.gov.on.ca/en/pro/programs/northernhealth/nrrr.aspx
The prospects of a physician or group of physicians specifically locating in Ramara may be slim, even with an available clinic and incentives, however there must at least be participation on the part of Ramara in the multi-community efforts of the Physician Recruitment and Retention program that has proven to be successful over the years. Ramara must pull its own weight as a municipality, in the case of our shared responsibility to fund Physician Recruitment and Retention on an ongoing basis. At the end of the day all that really should matter is shared participation in the Physician Recruitment and Retention program for the benefit of everyone in the area.
I don’t know about you, but I would like to be part of a community who wants to attract a variety of medical practitioners into our area to start their practices or retain existing medical practices.
We can join together and continue to support Ramara ’s contribution to the Physician Recruitment & Retention program with a small donation.
With the combined financial support from Oro-Medonte, Severn, Orillia, Rama and what we can raise for Ramara we stand a better chance of locating and attracting quality healthcare into our area, with Orillia as the hub. A variety of medical practitioners have been drawn to Orillia and area where they now practice and have access to the Soldiers Memorial Hospital, as well as many other facilities. The Ramara residents who are seen by medical practitioners in Orillia have benefited from the Physician Recruitment & Retention program.
Opting out of support for programs like Physician Recruitment & Retention and other community based programs simply diminishes the health care opportunities for all citizens who would jointly benefit, and undermines the viability of our communities. Not participating in collaborative health care initiatives clearly compromises the pursuit of well planned development in Ramara Township.
Doing nothing to address the shortage of rural physicians is pretty much guaranteed to produce nothing. The Northern and Rural Recruitment and Retention (NRRR) initiative offers taxable financial incentives to each eligible medical practitioner who establishes a full-time practice in an eligible community of the province. Please see the following link to the Health Force Ontario Northern and Rural Recruitment and Retention Initiative Guidelines.
http://www.health.gov.on.ca/en/pro/programs/northernhealth/nrrr.aspx
The prospects of a physician or group of physicians specifically locating in Ramara may be slim, even with an available clinic and incentives, however there must at least be participation on the part of Ramara in the multi-community efforts of the Physician Recruitment and Retention program that has proven to be successful over the years. Ramara must pull its own weight as a municipality, in the case of our shared responsibility to fund Physician Recruitment and Retention on an ongoing basis. At the end of the day all that really should matter is shared participation in the Physician Recruitment and Retention program for the benefit of everyone in the area.
Organiser
Anna Bourgeois
Organiser
Brechin, ON