Health Care Facilities

WHEREAS aging infrastructure at health care facilities, particularly in the rural areas of the Province of British Columbia, is an ongoing concern for recruitment and retention of medical professionals, access and quality of care, economic development investment, and rapidly escalating replacement costs; AND WHEREAS the existing funding mechanism where capital replacement costs are shared by both the Hospital Districts and the Province of BC is not legislated and discriminates based on the taxation capabilities of those Hospital Districts: THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Union of British Columbia Municipalities lobby the provincial government to recognize the fiscal imbalance amongst Hospital Districts and assume more fiscal responsibility in the timely replacement of these facilities.