Members of the Sydenham District Hospital Board are feeling a bit of vindication following the release of an investigative report into the Chatham-Kent Health Alliance. 
One of the recommendations from the report is to appoint a Supervisor be appointed to restore governance, and administrative and clinical leadership, a move board chair Sheldon Parsons welcomes.
“It is clear that there was not going to be any cooperation from the other two boards to try and resolve our differences,” Parsons says. “This was a direction from the ministry of health, we were abiding by that and prepared to do whatever we could to resolve the issues. They just didn’t want to meet.”
Parsons says a supervisor could be appointed as early as next Thursday.
The two-month Ministry of Health investigation found that the relationship between the Sydenham, Public General and St Joseph’s boards had deteriorated to the point where the delivery of hospital services was in jeopardy.
The three Health Alliance boards have two weeks to send an official response to the province.
