The Regina Qu’Appelle Regional Health Authority board has approved the health region’s strategic plan, and the 2016-17 operating and capital budgets.
According to Regina Qu’Appelle Health Region (RQHR), the 2016-17 operating budget comes in at just over $1 billion, focusing on three key areas including quality and safety, access and patient flow, and system sustainability.
RQHR said they were directed to reallocate $1.46 million in administrative spending to front line services in long-term care. President and CEO Keith Dewar said they’re still working on ways to find those inefficiencies.
“$1.464 million in a billion dollars is not much, but when you’re putting that in administrative cost, it’s fairly significant,” Dewar said.
Dewar said one of those ways may be not filling vacancies within the region.
“Whenever senior leaders retire early in the year, around that retirement, we may not fill that so it’s one position,” he said.
However, the health region said it wasn’t as simple as finding somebody and laying them off, but rather finding opportunities where positions are vacant and realigning work to cover the positions to cut down on costs.
“We’ve got some work to do with our affiliates to say, with that $1.464 million, where’s that money’s best to go?” Dewar said.
“The province has to approve both where we’re finding the money and where the money is going.”
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