Performance-based pay hikes for IH execs criticized amid Kelowna doctor shortage
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Through public documents, Global News has learned that in most cases, the executives received a 6.7-per cent increase including Interior Health CEO Susan Brown.
Performance-based pay increases given to top Interior Health (IH) brass amid a physician shortage crisis at Kelowna General Hospital (KGH) are being criticized by the Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF).
“Taxpayers should be deeply concerned at the culture in Interior Health that’s allowing this to happen,” said Carson Binda, B.C.’s director with the CTF.
A shortage of physicians has already closed down the entire pediatric ward for at least six weeks and the maternity clinic is no longer accepting patients.
It’s a situation that doctors have publicly blamed on mismanagement by IH, saying the staffing model has been failing for years and has resulted in physician resignations.
In 2023, seven pediatricians quit working at the hospital, the same year that a number of top executives received those performance-based pay hikes.
Through public documents, Global News has learned that in most cases, the executives received a 6.7-per cent increase including Interior Health CEO Susan Brown.
Brown’s total compensation, with that pay increase, jumped to $472, 607.
One executive received a 12-per cent increase that year from a promotion.
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