“I arrive here today with a different view of our health system. I want to contribute to an innovative approach and a vision,” writes Geneviève Biron.
“For the first time, a Crown corporation, with no political agenda, with a board made up of independent members, brings all the establishments in the network together in a single organization rather than more than 30 different entities,” said Santé Québec executive director Geneviève Biron in an open letter dated Dec. 1.
“Not everything will be fixed tomorrow, but it is possible to do better,” she wrote.
“I arrive here today with a different view of our health system. I want to contribute to an innovative approach and a vision,” she said.
“I think we’re all aware things have to change.”
“In consolidating establishments into a single organization, we give ourselves a broad vision that offers the possibility of optimizing the network as a whole,” Biron wrote in her open letter. “How? By gaining mobility, by eliminating tasks that are being duplicated, in more efficient sharing of tools and best practices, including research and teaching.
“We think it’s possible to have a system in which the population can be fully confident and which is there when they need it.
“We are at the starting line of long-distance race to transform the network and respond to the growing needs of the population.”
Acknowledging in the letter that the winter season is accompanied by increased demand for health-care services, she said: “We are ready to get down to work to meet the increased demand.”
Santé Quebec wants to “instil positivity in the network and in the population,” said Biron in her letter.
Since arriving on the scene, she has travelled to different regions of the province and met “hundreds” of the 330,000 people working in the health and social-service system, Biron wrote in her letter. “They are committed and devoted, but tired of cynicism,” she said.
She said in her letter that “a game plan to pick up the pace of the transformation of the network” will be proposed “in the coming months.”