Health Sciences North in Sudbury is not filling vacancies as a means to avoid layoffs at the hospital. The board wants to approve a $427-million budget. Right now there are 44 vacant positions in the registered nurses and registered practical nurses departments. The board says leaving these positions vacant means it doesn’t have to layoff nurses in the future. The hospital employs 3,900 people.
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Hospital trying to avoid layoffs
Rocco Frangione
I've been a broadcast journalist for three-plus decades in Northern Ontario. I'm a graduate of Algonquin College's radio and television arts program and prior to that, an honours grad from Carleton University's philosophy program.
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