Indebted private surgery clinic wants new contract
Posted Aug 18, 2010 7:20 am.
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Bosses at a financially defunct surgery clinic are looking for their contract with the province to be renewed.
Alberta Health had to bail out the Health Resource Centre, which performs orthopaedic surgeries, to stop waiting lists from getting longer.
The clinic tells the Calgary Herald their privately contracted surgery is better for patients and cheaper for the province.
Alberta Health wants to terminate the contract after it opens a new wing of Foothills Hospital later this year. So far, it’s had to pay about two million dollars in taxpayer cash to keep the clinic afloat.
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