Prince County Hospital Foundation offers $20,000 recruitment bonus for emergency department doctors
SUMMERSIDE, P.E.I. — Prince County Hospital’s (PCH) emergency division is trying to rent medical doctors, and the Prince County Hospital Foundation is hopeful the $20,000 hiring bonus it’s providing will assist accomplish that.
The inducement will go to the primary three medical doctors recruited for a three-year dedication.
“To search out three would go a good distance towards fixing the holes,” mentioned Rick Kennedy, president of the Prince County Hospital Basis.
Well being P.E.I., mentioned Kennedy, can be providing its personal recruitment bonus.
The standard emergency physician incentive in P.E.I., mentioned Kennedy, is $40,000.
“Due to the extreme scenario right here in Summerside, the place they’re down quite a few medical doctors in that division,” mentioned Kennedy, “they did double their $40,000 to $80,000,” bringing the overall quantity supplied to $100,000 per physician.
A physician scarcity on the PCH, mentioned Kennedy, is just not new.
The complement of medical doctors on the PCH’s emergency division is 11; at present, it’s working at round half employees with the equal of 5.6.
In mild of the physician scarcity, PCH’s hospital administration approached the muse and requested the muse make the $20,000 contribution with the hopes of filling a minimum of a couple of of these positions.
“One-hundred-thousand {dollars} looks like some huge cash to most individuals,” mentioned Kennedy, “nevertheless it’s not a slam dunk. We’re not going to have 20 individuals lined up on the door.”
Three extra medical doctors employed, he added, would ease the burden on current emergency division medical doctors.
The scarcity, nevertheless, is just not distinctive to the Prince County Hospital.
Charlottetown’s Queen Elizabeth Hospital can be down “a quantity” of medical doctors, mentioned Kennedy; Well being P.E.I. can be providing a $40,000 recruitment bonus there.
Though it should take a while to see outcomes, Kennedy is hopeful that the motivation will see the best medical doctors employed to fill the gaps.
Kristin Gardiner is a reporter with the SaltWire Community in Prince Edward Island. @KristinGardiner
