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20 stpufiyttle suntribune mthursday sept 202007 social funds dont match growth s says from page 1 services planning coalition the peel fair share task force and the gta905 healthcare alliance the alliance includes 10 hospitals from across the gta including york central markhamstouffville and southlake it is an update of the growing pains report released in october 2006 both audits have shown residents of the torontos suburbs are not getting their fair share of operating funding for much- needed services what that means for you is longer wait times at hospitals and for other services it also means residents either have to leave their communities to get services or simply go without i think the report essentially tells us what our network of unit ed way agencies has known for some time united way of york region ceo daniele zanotti said the united way works with 40 agencies and mr zanotti said the lack of resources is being seen across the board we are seeing the funding gap on the ground in a whole bunch of ways he said whats worse the gap is widen ing in two years the funding gap for all social services increased nearly 34 per cent to 7082 mil lion our hospitals are in even more dire straits receiving only 765 per cent of what other regions receive overall this means local hos pitals are nearly 1 billion short of the funding they require there is still a sizable gap and the gaps are getting wider as population growth continues to outstrip provincial funding the report concludes mr zanotti said a huge invest ment would be needed upfront to eliminate the gap as would extensive ongoing funding as the report so clearly states the pace of growth is so exceed ingly rapid its a game of catch up mr zanotti said however the ceo of the cen tral local health integration net work which includes most of york region says funding to his group is starting to bridge recognized gaps hi eliasoph said the recent liberal commitment for an aging at home strategy to ease hospital patient congestion and lack of bed spaces is a sign of better funding allocation earlier this year york region passed its second motion asking the upper levels of government to step in and bridge the fund ing gap to no avail the motion asked for a change in how fund ing is allocated and while that has not yet happened it is something the progressive conservatives are touting in the campaign is there more to do youre darn right there is more to do party leader john tory has promised to invest 85 billion in the health care system over four years including growth funding earmarked for regions such as the 905 according to his platform that funding would grow to 200 million per year by 201 112 the communities surround ing the city of toronto are grow ing at twice the rate of most com munities in ontario but there has been little recognition from the mcguinty government about the impact this ishaving on local health care mr tory said people living in all parts of ontario have the right to access quality health care services as close to home as possible mr tory said he would also cre ate a new populationbased fund ing model for local health integra tion networks that plan health care funding the liberals are quick to criti cize that plan im not satisfied with moving on a provincewide basis to per- capita funding finance minister and vaughan mpp greg sorbara said mr sorbara pointed out stable areas with low growth could find themselves suddenly lacking and he said the government has been working with the coalition over the past few years to find out where funding is needed he said the coalitions figures dont take into account much of the governments infrastructure invest ments including a new hospital in brampton and planning for a vaughan hospital the liberals have also pledged to create more funding for hospi tals in high growth areas in their platform but the conservatives are focused on the speed of change ifs going to be something that needs to immediately happen said elizabeth winner conserva tive health critic and former cabi net minister she said mr tory and herself had already met with the coalition prompting their promise to pro vide funding beyond the 200 million now on the table a tory government would continue to work to resolve the issues ms witmer added we are prepared to make sure they highgrowth municipalities get a fair share of the funding she said the ndp also see the need for improvements to allocating fund ing to health care theres ho doubt theres a prob lem newmarketaurora ndp can didate mike seaward said while praising the work of social agencies mr seaward said these core issues should be funded out of the public purse he said raising the minimum wage to i0 would help and hoped local residents would remember it was a conservative government that exacerbated the problems by downloading social services to municipalities with files from david stell energyefficient ideas bring home the savings share a little magic hillp 9058950289 of 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