As nurses, doctors and other frontline health workers continue to sound the alarm about a staggering staff shortage, the region’s largest hospital has gone on an executive hiring spree superiors, appointing three new presidents and seven other new executives since the beginning of the year. .
London Health Sciences Centre, London’s biggest employer, is undergoing management restructuring and did not answer direct questions about how many new jobs have been created or how many new managers – who are each earning six-figure salaries – who have been hired.
Internal emails show 10 people have been appointed to new positions since the start of 2022.
“At this time, as we continue to configure the new team, the specific number of new hires needed is not fixed,” a spokesperson wrote to CBC News. “While we previously announced that we were working on configuring a smaller, tighter executive branch, our organizational structure has continued to evolve with the system to meet the needs of patients, families, community and our teams.”
A recent deluge of emails congratulating senior managers on their new roles has left many staff angry and frustrated as they work understaffed and are unable to provide patients with the care they feel they deserve, said James Gibbons, who leads the union that represents the unions at the hospital.
“What patients would be much better off with would be a healthcare worker, not another senior manager,” Gibbons said. “They’re taking health care money and hiring senior executives. It’s frustrating.”
On social media, people who say they work at the hospital shared similar sentiments: “We keep getting emails about new presidents and other executives being hired/created. C is so insulting,” one employee wrote.
The restructuring includes the creation of two new chair positions, one for Victoria and University Hospitals.
Jackie Schleifer-Taylor, who was one of the hospital’s executive vice presidents, was hired as the new president and CEO in November 2021.
New leaders frown
Two of the new leaders — Brad Campbell, who will oversee the three hospital presidents, and Nash Syed, the new president of Children’s Hospital — were previously president and senior vice president, respectively, of Corpus Sanchez Inc.
It is a consulting company used by the LHSC on several occasions, including in 2018 for the Children’s Hospital strategic plan, and in 2016 to improve the LHSC psychiatry service.
Other new appointments include Abhi Mukherjee, who has served as Deputy Chief Financial Officer of The Ottawa Hospital since January 2021, earning nearly $174,000 in the role. He is the new Director of Corporate Services and Chief Financial Officer of LHSC.
Tammy Quigley, who left her role at LHSC as Director of Quality and Performance in January 2020 for a position in Burlington, is back as LHSC’s Head of Systems Innovation and Business Development. In her previous role in London, she earned $138,000.
Debora Wiseman worked for LHSC for 23 years before leaving in November 2020 to help run Huron Perth Hospitals. She’s back as president of Victoria Hospital. In 2020 she won $130,000 at the London Health Science Center and in 2021 she won nearly $180,000 at the Huron Perth Health Alliance.
“state of evolution”
The healthcare system is “in a state of evolution,” the hospital spokesperson told CBC News, adding that “our leadership team organizational structure will be comparable to other teaching hospitals. research-intensive acute tertiary and quaternary care centers such as the Hamilton Health Sciences Centre. ”
The London hospital, which employs around 15,000 people, has been in a state of flux since CEO Paul Woods was fired in January 2021 after reports emerged he had made five trips to the United States during the pandemic.
Since Wood’s departure, six other executives have also left the hospital.
“We keep adding more and more layers,” Gibbons said. “They’re taking the healthcare money and they’re putting it where they see it as a priority, and that’s another senior manager, when the patients would be really much better off if they had another nurse or another bedside healthcare worker.”
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