Funding for nurses and other health professionals working in ER departments in Hastings County has been cut by $45,000 this year.
That’s according to a report presented to county council by Paramedic Chief and Director of Emergency Services Carl Bowker.
Services at Belleville General Hospital and at Trenton Memorial Hospital will be impacted.
For the 2025 to 2026 period, the approved funding was cut to $341,000, from $389,000, through a provincial health ministry fund called the Dedicated Offload Nurses Program.
Quinte Health officials have secured supplementary funding to offset the shortfall and continue current service levels.
Officials say they will have to find additional funding to sustain the current level of offload nurse services in the ER.
