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04.06.13
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I’m sorry, your patient care has been out-sourced

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It’s an atmosphere that has been described as poisonous. A department where the director is accused of harassing, bullying and belittling a long-time employee who, as a result, is now absent from the workplace on stress leave.
A situation where an individual charged with the financial welfare of a $110 million corporation is in flagrant and repeated violation of that organization’s respect in the workplace policy
What is shocking is the venue – the treasury department at city hall – and the actions of city treasurer Bill Day have put CAO Wendell Graves and human resources director Graham Dart between a rock and a hard place.
And, no matter what action they deem necessary, it could cost St. Thomas ratepayers dearly.
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04.02.13
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2013 Public Sector Salaries, Elgin/St. Thomas health sector

Salary figures released March 31, 2013 for 2012 – (2011 salary in brackets).

ST. THOMAS-ELGIN GENERAL HOSPITAL

BATTAGLIA DR. DONNA Pathologist $341,668.89 ($125,961.48)
CATTRYSSE SHARON Chief Nursing Executive /Officer $130,348.87 (new)
COLLINS PAUL President & Chief Executive Officer $205,569.00 ($205,569.00)
FERIZOVIC HANUMKA Registered Nurse $111,967.33 ($120,819.41)
FLETCHER KATHRYN ANN Pharmacist $112,927.50 ($115,233.82 )
GILLARD ILMA LUCINDA Registered Nurse $112,176.03 ($124,059.31)
GRANT ANITA Manager, Pharmacy Services $107,119.49 ( $107,090.98)
GROENEWEG HENRIETTA G. Registered Nurse $110,253.66 ($106,523.42)
HARMS NANCY ANNE Registered Nurse $100,091.49 ($102,969.28)
HICKS NANCY Registered Nurse $101,578.84 (new)
HILLMAN MARY–ELLEN Registered Nurse $107,846.91 ($111,217.04)
HOPKINS MALCOLM Vice President $192,509.99 ($154,763.83)
KOLATOR–COTNAM SUSAN MARY Pharmacist $105,333.84 ($105,925.62)
PAVILONIS LAURA Director, People Development $111,857.20 (new)
PINNELL MARY KATHERINE Registered Nurse $104,956.77 ($106,336.62)
SHEA JAMES Director, Corporate Services $100,360.68 ($100,360.60)
SIMPSON DAVID Manager, Continuing Care Centre $109,779.13 (new)
WASTY DR. FASAHAT Pathologist $349,951.05 ($334,805.44)
WHITMORE DR. NANCY Vice President $164,009.53 * fiscal year only total (previously not a hospital employee)

ELGIN-ST. THOMAS PUBLIC HEALTH

KUNTZ CAROLYN Director, Health Promotion $109,700.08 ($106,351.74)
ST. JOHN CYNTHIA Executive Director $148,617.35 ($135,735.60)

CENTRAL COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTRE
WILEY JUDITH Executive Director $123,512.26 (112,373.70)
WARSH FRANKLIN Family Physician $163,112.86 (new)

CANADIAN MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION, ELGIN BRANCH

DEBRUYN HEATHER Executive Director $106,893.28 ($105,712.01)

FAMILY AND CHILDREN’S SERVICES OF ST. THOMAS AND ELGIN

DITTRICH JOYCE Manager Legal Department $104,035.19 ($100,803.00)
HEWITT LYNETTE Family Services and After Hours Manager $100,927.22 (new)
MEYERS JULIE Family Services and After Hours Manager $101,027.22 (new)
POTGEITER ROD Executive Director $146,138.70 (143,275.00)
SZIKSZAY MONICA Manager City Investigation, After Hours Manager $103,367.22 ($101,809.00)

WEST ELGIN COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTRE

GEORGE KIM Physician – $219,244.05 ($206,457.15)
KROEKER ANDREW Executive Director $113,638.21 (new)
MARDELL KEVIN physician $269,921.38 ($272,711.89)

03.09.13
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It’s more of the same-old, same-old over at STEGH

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The hospital’s newest vice-president wins this week’s award for stating the obvious when she proclaimed, “We’re on the right track here, for sure, in seeing the success that you can have when you continue to to keep the patient at the centre of everything that you do.”
It’s that kind of bafflegab logic from top executives at St. Thomas-Elgin General Hospital, like Karen Davies quoted above, that is being raised up the flagpole to justify sending four individuals 15,000 km to Singapore to get a glimpse at how their healthcare system operates.
When questioned by T-J reporter Nick Lypaczewski this week, patient-centered care was incorporated into as many answers as possible.
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03.02.13
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There’s no lack of sunshine this winter over at city hall

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After a quiet year in 2011, membership in the city’s Sunshine Club fairly blossomed last year, as outlined in a report to be received Monday by St. Thomas council.
In his public sector salary disclosure report, human resources director Graham Dart reveals membership in the $100,000 club mushroomed from 39 city hall employees in 2011 to 58 in 2012.
Of that total, 17 are from the city’s police department (up from 11 in 2011); 28 are from the fire department (17 in 2011) and 13 from city administration (an increase of only 2 over 2011).
We’ll compile a complete city list for next week, however here are highlights to tide you over.
The top earner at city hall is CAO Wendell Graves at $166,315, up from $146,217 in 2011. He supplants police chief Bill Lynch, who topped the list in 2011 at $150,976. He clocked in last year at $161,984.
Many city administrators saw their salary increase by about $5,000 last year in what was supposed to be an austerity push.
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03.10.12
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No need to look to Ottawa for political shell games

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We briefly alluded last week to the 2011 public sector salary disclosure for city hall employees who earned more than $100,000.
Here is the full list and the previous year’s salary in brackets:
Bridge, Tim, lead hand building maintenance – $101,483.03 (new)
Brisseau, Mark, captain fire department – $107,871.76 ($106,709.75)
Broadbent, Robert, fire chief – $127,496.56 ($120,384.15)
Butters, Kevin, captain fire department – $104,962.28 ($101,462.01)
Carroll, Michael, Valleyview administrator – $107,975.14 ($107,836.12)
Dart, Graham, director human resources – $116,552.80 ($116,435)

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03.03.12
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Slim pickin’s in 2011 for city’s Sunshine Club

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An initial scan of the public sector salary disclosure for city hall employees seems to indicate restraint was in order in 2011.

A total of 39 city employees are ensconced in the Sunshine Club — those earning in excess of $100,000 — unchanged from 2010.

Topping the list is police chief Bill Lynch at $150, 976, but that’s a decrease of almost $7,000 from his previous salary reporting.

A close second is the city’s new CAO/clerk, Wendell Graves, checking in at $146,217. As city clerk only in 2010, Graves earned $126,338.
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03.06.11
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Chief Bill Lynch explains why his salary in 2010 tops the list at city hall

The highest-earning municipal employee in St. Thomas in 2010 was St. Thomas police Chief Bill Lynch, who earned $157,133, up from $135,424 the previous year.

In addition the number of members of the St. Thomas Police Service who earned in access of $100,000 in 2010 more than doubled to 13, from six in 2009.

City Scope talked to Lynch on Friday, the same day the figures were published in the Times-Journal, to ascertain what is behind the substantial increase in his salary and the swelling of the ranks in the so-called sunshine club with police officers.

“Probably the single biggest reason – last year’s salaries have a lot of retroactivity in them from 2009,” Lynch explained.

” A lot of that is what puts them over. Retroactive pay from 2009 because the contract did not get settled until around August of 2010.”

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03.05.11
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2010 Public Sector Salaries, County of Elgin

Figures released for 2010 (2009 salary in brackets)

BEECH-ROBERTS,RHONDA Director, Long Term Care Homes $117,125 ($110,686)
BRYCE, ROB Director of Human Resources $105,568 (new)
BUNDSCHUH, JIM $122,805 ($111,885)
MCDONALD,MARK Chief Administrative Officer $170,880 ($160,700)
WATTERS, CLAYTON Director, Engineering Services $112,819 ($110,686)

03.05.11
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2010 Public Sector Salaries, Municipality of Central Elgin

Salary figures released for 2010 (2009 salary in brackets)

CROCKER, DON Fire Chief $105,564 ($103,519)
LARMOUR,SHARON Director, Financial Services $110,193 ($106,400)
LEITCH, DONALD N Chief Administrative Officer $120,178 ($113,833)
PERRIN, LLOYD Director, Physical Services $115,846 ($113,833)