The move to get a Nuclear medicine unit set up in Hanover hospital is stalled… now that the Local Health Integration network CEO is leaving.
Tony Woolgar’s contract wasn’t renewed last month and the LHIN for the area is searching for a new chief executive.
CEO at Hanover Hospital Katrina Wilson says the plan for a nuclear medicine unit in Hanover has support from local surgeons and radiologists, as well as from hospitals outside the Grey Bruce region.
Hospitals in Goderich, Listowel and Mount Forest have indicated their support for the plan, but the South Bruce Grey health centre and Grey Bruce health services … do not support the idea.
Right now, patients either go to Owen Sound or Stratford to a nuclear medicine unit.
Wilson says she understands why the Owen Sound hospital, which has a nuclear medicine unit, might want to protect that service but she doesn’t know why there is a lack of support at other neighbouring hospitals.
The proposal has been around for two years and Hanover Hospital will continue to push for approval.
The hospital CEO says there would be virtually no cost to the province with equipment being covered by the Hospital foundation, and there is room in the hospital for such a unit.
