SAH

The Sault Area Hospital is showing improvement when it comes to readmission rates.  The rates look specifically at patients that are readmitted to hospital within 30-days of being discharged. The rate for the Sault Area Hospital has been reduced from just above 17.5% last year  to just above 16% this year.  Hospital CEO Ron Gagnon says the goal is 15% which is the provincial average.

Despite a 119-thousand dollar operating deficit as of the end of November,  the Sault Area Hospital is still anticipating a one-million dollar surplus as budgeted at the end of its fiscal year.