Fact Sheet
Summary of Restructuring Health Services in Essex County


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Table of Contents
  1. Summary of Total Bed/Service Requirements
  2. Summary of Required Reinvestment and Savings

1. Summary of Total Bed/Service Requirements

Size of Essex County Health System

Hospital Bed Numbers
Bed Category
Actual (1995/96)
1997/98 Projected Operating Plan
Recommended to 2003
Acute* 829 625 530
Projected Growth** - - 95
Acute Mental Health 115 110 68
Longer-term Mental Health 0 - 59
Complex Continuing Care 207 155 180
Rehabilitation 32 36 81***
Sub-Acute/Transitional Care - - 67
Total 1183 926 1080
ICUs (included in acute bed number) 69 65 46
Operating Rooms 25 25 27
* includes ICUs
**estimate only for purposes of sizing physical plant;
*** 5 of these beds are transitional to independent living beds

Impact of the Proposed Planning Guidelines on the Distribution of Long-Term Care Services in Essex County

  Current beds/ spaces 1997 Proposed beds/spaces to 2003 Change
#%
Complex continuing care

207

180

(27)

13% decrease

Long-term care

1,991

2,437

446

22% increase

Supportive housing/long-term home care

2,127

3,013

886

41% increase

2. Summary of Required Reinvestment and Savings

Reinvestment Summary

Home Care

$3.4 million

Long-Term Care

$8.3 million

Sub-Acute Care

$4.8 million

MRI units

$1.0 million

Rehabilitation

$4.4 million

Information Technology Systems

tbd

TOTAL

$21.9 million

Capital Reinvestment

Facility Capital Estimate
Hôtel Dieu Grace $48.9 million
Windsor Regional - Metropolitan site $18.3 million
Windsor Regional - Western site $14.8 million
Leamington District Memorial $1.6 million
Total $83.6 million

Summary Of Total Expenses And Savings

1995/96 Net Expenses *

$229,218,550

 

Clinical efficiencies

$20,174,894

 

Program transfers

$606,359

 

Support services efficiencies

$3,421,622

 

Administrative efficiencies

$5,622,372

 

Site closure

$1,709,345

 

Change in selected expenses 1

$525,013

 

Complex continuing care savings

$368,279

 

TOTAL SAVINGS

$32,472,884

14.1%

REVISED EXPENSES

$196,790,666

 
* Net Expenses from OCDM
1 Selected expenses are overhead expenses not transferred to the receiving institutions during program transfers.

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