Seems everyone agrees CEO paid too much
Re “Hospital CEO (Jan. 5) –
I cannot believe I actually agree with Dean Del Mastro on something. Just think what $380,000 could do in my pocket. No, better still, let’s divvy it up between hospital personnel for the Emergency Room, like doctors and nurse practitioners who can look after most of the dreadful backlog of suffering patients hanging around for literally hours for a treatment or procedure that can be done in a matter of minutes.
Where is the common sense brigade when you need them? Just this past week, my daughter sat for exactly six hours for two stitches in her finger – that’s three hours per stitch! While she waited, she witnessed children, uncomfortable, in pain, expected to endure this lengthy wait-time. Do you have any idea how long six hours is to a toddler?
Why does CEO Ken Tremblay deserve so much money? What exactly does he do that is more useful than paying several health professionals to
salary shocks MP” actually help people?
We are so blessed in Canada to have the health care system we have, but it doesn’t feel much like a blessing when you are sitting in unnecessary agony for hours, while the Big Guy is warming a desk upstairs or driving around in a car we are subsidizing, because, apparently, $380,000 a year isn’t enough money for him to pay for his own wheels.
And I don’t care if that is the “going rate” for CEO’S of a hospital; if we can drive to Lindsay or Cobourg hospitals and be treated in an hour or two, then why did we put so much resource into this brand new hospital, where people in need are treated so carelessly?
Mr. Del Mastro and I are unlikely to agree on much, but on this one, he got it right! BEVMILES Rita Cres. Omemee
Peterborough MP Dean Del Mastro’s criticism of the exorbitant salaries being paid to some of Ontario’s top civil servants, including those at arm’s length, is bang on except for his final point: Peterborough Regional Health Centre CEO Ken Tremblay is very much part of the problem and not, as Del Mastro suggests, a mere victim of the system.
Tremblay negotiated his current compensation package with Peterborough’s hospital board. It is unlikely he would be here now if that same board had offered him a salary of $250,000 (still about 10 times the average Peterborough annual wage), even with the perks identified in a recent newspaper article.
Tremblay got what he wanted from taxpayers, or he would not have darkened our hospital’s hallways with his presence. That same board – arguably a much bigger part of the problem – negotiated a pay and benefits package with Tremblay’s predecessor that included a buy-out clause bordering on the obscene. Add to that irresponsibility the board’s willingness to pay the hospital human resources director more than $175,000 annually and the chief bean counter $230,000 a year.