Abolition of posts in mental health at the hospital of Chicoutimi – The Sherbrooke Times

Jean-Franois Tremblay

Tuesday, July 4, 2017 22:28

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SAGUENAY | reorganization of units in mental health at the hospital of Chicoutimi is cringe unions, who complain of cuts to jobs and fear for the care of patients.

Nineteen vacant positions of nurses and auxiliaries will not be renewed. The other four positions occupied by nursing assistants are also abolished. In contrast, five part-time positions will be posted.

For the posts of assistants, the Centre intgr universitaire de sant et de services sociaux (CIUSSS) of the SaguenayLac-Saint-Jean has argued that he will attempt to retain the expertise of staff in the department by displaying other items. In the last year, 36 of the 56 mental health beds have been occupied. The directorate is preparing a medical team for 46 beds, as early as mid-September.

In the department of rehabilitation in mental health for adults, it removes the end of the week, two of the seven days work of a special education teacher who prepares patients to return home. There will only be one person full-time. However, the CIUSSS has added five days of social work.

The unions find it hard to accept that mental health is being hit again.

The respondent policy to the Alliances professional and technical staff of the health (APTS), Lynn Brie, said that this is a customer easy to touch, because it is vulnerable. Staff will make follow-up less intensive and will have to make choices about the care they receive.

The case of fugues in a hospital environment who have already made the headlines concerns the representatives of the staff.

The loss of hours in rehabilitation, to be effective on September 17. For the positions of auxiliary nurses, their abolition is expected somewhere in the fall.

Ms. Brie adds that it is no longer able to hear the speech that the cutbacks in health spending do not affect patient care.

The regional president of the Fdration interprofessionnelle de la sant du Qubec (FIQ), Martine Side, went a step further by arguing that it is necessary to take the time to work with this customer, but that it takes the world to do it.

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Abolition of posts in mental health at the hospital of Chicoutimi - The Sherbrooke Times