At the end of June, Prairie Mountain Health (PMH) sent out letters to community stakeholders that it will no longer agree to cost-sharing agreements with municipalities to recruit physicians.

The recruitment of physicians has sort of been a sore subject for some Manitoba municipalities, for they feel that it was never their responsibility to preserve healthcare for their communities. On the flip side, many municipalities felt they had to intervene and be a part of the recruitment efforts to ensure their healthcare facilities were staffed with physicians and their ERs remained open.

Read all about it in this week’s Review.