Rob Alexander, chair of the hospital retention working group, was before Huntsville council Monday asking for funds to hire a consultant.<\/p>\n
The group was appointed by Huntsville council to help come up with ways to keep Huntsville’s hospital in the community, following a recommendation by Muskoka Algonquin Healthcare for a single hospital to service all of Muskoka and surrounding areas.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have spent a lot of time considering various options. As we got deeper into that, we realized that most of us don\u2019t know enough about health care and specifically how this process will work,\u201d he explained.<\/cite><\/p>\n He said the healthcare issue is complicated. There are multiple factors, entities and levels of government to consider, as well as other healthcare providers..<\/p>\n