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Aylmer Health Coop needs money


The Law News, Wednesday, December 16, 2009, p. 8

Theriault, Charles

Aylmer Health Cooperative require an annual fee of $ 100 per member as its current revenues are insufficient.

President of the Board of Directors of the cooperative, Louis Simard, announced yesterday that members must pay an annual fee from 2010. Created six years ago to curb the exodus of doctors from Aylmer, the cooperative health includes 9500 members who paid a share of $ 50 for membership. The cooperative has purchased a former medical clinic located a few meters from the Church of St. Paul and she was able to hire nine doctors. "There were only two doctors in Aylmer, a population of approximately 40000 people and we risked losing them too. We had one nurse and now we have three and we have also replaced some equipment, "said Mr. Simard.

Enlarge or move

But the cooperative health is now at the outgrown its premises. Its leaders are thinking thus to sell the building to rent space elsewhere or to expand and renovate the building so that it meets modern standards. DrAlain According to Millette, medical director of the health co halls, examinations are too small and there is not enough space to accommodate new physicians. In addition, the building does not have a ramp, making it difficult to access for disabled people and patients transported by stretcher. "If we want to attract young doctors, we need modern facilities. Here is a building that is 35 and who does not meet modern standards," argued Dr. Millette.

Annual deficit of $ 100,000

expansion projects and renovation are not the only reason for imposing an annual fee of $ 100. Paul Simard also said that the current operating costs are higher than income which requires directors to use membership dues for the deficit of business which is $ 100,000 per year. "At this rate, we could not hold out long so it's why we call this contribution to our members. But there will be a family rate and those who are truly in need can get financial assistance to pay the annual fee, "he added.

Cooperative Aylmer Health has an annual budget of $ 1.3 million.

Ctheriault@ledroit.com

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Health Coop of Cantley: But what controversy? Controversy


The Right Forum, Saturday, December 26, 2009, p. The 20

Monday, December 21, 2009, members of the Cooperative Health Care Cantley Journalists invited to the inauguration of new premises at 47 Elizabeth Road Ste. A small medical clinic, a concrete realization, a response to a need, the result of work of many volunteers and has been for over two years.

We were happy to share good news, the culmination of many efforts and proof of completion of a community that decides to act for the welfare of all.

Tuesday morning, what a surprise, some cooling! Our beautiful new is the controversy? We're always looking, this climate of controversy that would have prevailed during our meeting with the journalist the newspaper Le Droit. Article

product has turned a good news situation that creates anxiety.

Far be it from us to limit the universality of health care: on the contrary, we want to provide preventive and curative services to the general population. We do not want to add arguments to the debate on the quality of our health care system, we just want to show that when a community wants, committed citizens can make beautiful projects.

What kind of journalism do you prefer? One who relates the facts or the one who loves to feed the public of securities that generate the negative view of situations and forget to emphasize the positive? We recognize that a journalist has all rights to his article, but we would have appreciated that the essence of our message is not altered. Any

a disappointment!

Were we naive, too trusting to believe that the news would be received as we wanted to share it?

We wonder how to share the good news to the public if this is possible through your newspaper.

The fact remains that we are proud of our accomplishments and do not intend to give up, we will continue in a positive attitude because we believe in the power solidarity.

Receive our greetings
The Board of Directors of the Coop health Cantley

log response

issue an annual fee of $ 50 that your cooperative charges its members actually raised a controversy in Quebec. The Health Minister Yves Bolduc, it is also worried publicly. His ministry has even considered banning the annual fee for fear they would not limit the universality of health care.

Anxiety Minister has not dissipated, far away, as stated by the spokesman for the minister quoted in my article. I also careful to collect the reaction of your president on this issue and bring in my article. As for the message you wanted to deliver at your press conference, it is also found in the text. My journalistic work is not limited to reporting the message you want to convey, but to put it in context.

Patrick Duquette

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Health Coop of Cantley: Annual fees are creating anxiety

Right
News, Tuesday, December 22, 2009, p. 4

Duquette, Patrick

The new cooperative health Cantley barely opens its doors it already immersed in the heart of a controversy because of the annual fee imposed on its patients.

Installed in a rectory, at 47, chemin Sainte-Elizabeth, the cooperative health opens once a week on Wednesday, and already has 1200 members.

To be a member must pay a share of $ 50, plus $ 50 annual fee to cover the costs of heating, electricity, telephone and others.

The imposition of such annual fee annoys the Health Minister Yves Bolduc, who sees a threat to the principle of universal care.

Already in 2008, the Minister had expressed some concerns at the opening of a new cooperative health family on the boulevard Greber, Gatineau, where the fee of $ 100 gave priority access to a doctor.

Since then, the Charest government has thought to prohibit the imposition of annual fees in the health cooperatives. "This should not be a contribution that provides access to a doctor or not," says Marie-Eve Bédard, Bolduc minister's office.

The current legislative framework does not allow the Department to verify what he is really on the ground, she acknowledges. "What happens to people who do not pay? Is it that people who are not members may have access to the same doctor as those who are members? "

The president of the cooperative health Cantley, Claude Hébert, is adamant about this." At the clinic, people come in, whether members or not members. But for members, we are doing all kinds of special arrangements. "

M. Hebert ensures that it will be possible for anyone to consult a physician for all health care reimbursed by the Quebec medicare medical examinations, drug prescriptions, or references to specialists.

Privileges members will receive more access to conferences Diabetes and healthy eating, for example. "We follow the letter of the law that says it all for the general public," said Claude Hebert.

It took two years on the board of directors of the new cooperative health Cantley to recruit 1200 members and convince a retired doctor, the DrBernard Gelinas, to come and hold consultations once a week, every Wednesday . The

DrGélinas see all patients who present members and non members, said Claude Hebert, depending on a first come, first served.

For now, the cooperative has installed on the ground floor of a former rectory. The cooperative expects to recruit other physicians and move next summer, in a new commercial building near City Hall on Highway 307. As the cooperative will soar, some slots will be reserved exclusively for members.

"At the Aylmer Health Co-op in the afternoon, the beaches are accessible only to members who have emergencies. But the morning's first come, first served. You look at that model "Hebert said.

At the Ministry of Health, we are assured not to be against the emergence of increasingly frequent health cooperatives. "It's frankly a model against which there is no cons. Where there is a problem is when we decrease the accessibility of care compared to a load that is required," said MmeBédard.

Pduquette@ledroit.com