BRUCE COUNTY – In the final days of 2022, MPP Lisa Thompson made the rounds of the communities in her riding, providing greetings and funding for a number of programs.
Thompson visited the Bruce County administration centre in Walkerton to present a cheque to Bruce County as part of a Land Ambulance Service Grant to help municipalities facing increased cost pressures in their emergency departments.
Bruce County will receive $6,355,411 to maintain paramedic staffing levels, wage and cost of living adjustments, and general ambulance services operation to meet the needs of the local community.
“Ensuring that patients can access the care where they need it, when they need it is an important priority for our government,” said Thompson. “Ambulance services play an integral role in our health care system in Bruce County and this investment is ensuring that Ontarians are able to access that care.”
Through the LASG, municipalities receive funding for 50 per cent of the costs for their land ambulance operations. This funding is part of the government’s commitment to building a modern, sustainable and connected emergency health system that supports every Ontarian on their health care journey. This also supports the government’s work on the Plan to Stay Open: Health System Stability and Recovery, to ease pressures on our health care system, hire more health care workers and providing the right care in the right place to Ontarians.
“Land Ambulance Services funding from the Province of Ontario assists Bruce County with providing ongoing quality paramedic care and 911 service across the region,” said Bruce County Warden Chris Peabody.
“This funding will help better our ambulance services in the region and improve the quality of care that residents of Bruce County receive. I am proud that our government continues to invest in accessible and reliable healthcare especially in Ontario’s more rural communities” said MPP Rick Byers.
In addition, the Ontario government is also continuing to fund 100 per cent of costs for Central Ambulance Communications Centres (CACCs) to dispatch ambulances, helping to deliver equitable emergency health services to Ontarians across the province.
