By Doug Draper
When it comes to the body in charge of Niagara’s hospital system, it appears that arrogance and the sheer lack of respect for the guidelines and rules most everyone else has to follow knows no bounds.

Port Colborne activist Pat Scholfield on CHCH News discusing NHS's use of Superbuild funds.
As Port Colborne Mayor Vance Badawey disclosed in his last address to his council for 2009 (posted earlier in its entirety in Niagara At Large), the Niagara Health System has used Superbuild funds from the province that are only supposed to be used for capital projects – in this case for building a new hospital complex in Niagara – to cover its ballooning operating costs.
Badawey, who used the word “scandalous” to describe that move along with a number of others he feels have diminished hospital services in Niagara’s south end, was told the NHS was using the Superbuild funding to cover operating costs by Pat Scholfield, a Port Colborne resident who has been fighting against cuts to hospital services in her community. Continue reading →