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The Ottawa Hospital has called in police after an internal audit into financial irregularities in its facilities and planning department found “grounds for concern.” The hospital has also launched a civil lawsuit.
In a terse statement posted quietly on its website Tuesday, the hospital announced it had taken the steps based on findings from its own investigation earlier this year.
“As a critical and respected public institution in our community, we know The Ottawa Hospital is held to a higher standard in how it conducts business and manages issues that arise. We are confident that we have the appropriate internal controls in place to guide the actions and behaviours of our staff and the organization as a whole. We do not condone or tolerate activities contrary to our values.”
Sources have told the Citizen that one senior director in the hospital’s facilities and planning department — which handles major construction projects and renovations — is the focus of the investigation and has since left the hospital. It is not clear whether more than one employee has left the department or how many individuals are named in the suit.
The Citizen has learned the problem involves the execution of contracts with various building trades. Sources have also told the Citizen that change orders — which must be signed by more than one person when changes are required in an agreed-to contract — were a focus of the audit.
The investigation into what sources have told the Citizen are long-term irregularities comes at a time when the hospital is under increasing budget pressure. The Ottawa Hospital has 12,000 employees at three main locations and an annual operating budget of about $1.3 billion.
Last year, it cut 80 full-time jobs and saved $20 million. In 2014, the hospital announced 290 job cuts.
Its facilities and planning department is responsible for capital projects and renovations, which have been massive and ongoing in recent years. Over the past 15 years, the hospital has spent in excess of $200 million on renovations and expansions.
The hospital is also planning for a multi-billion-dollar replacement for the aging Civic hospital. It has announced plans to eventually build a new state-of-the-art hospital across the road from the existing Civic, on what is one of the Central Experimental Farm’s historic research fields.
epayne@postmedia.com
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In a terse statement posted quietly on its website Tuesday, the hospital announced it had taken the steps based on findings from its own investigation earlier this year.
“As a critical and respected public institution in our community, we know The Ottawa Hospital is held to a higher standard in how it conducts business and manages issues that arise. We are confident that we have the appropriate internal controls in place to guide the actions and behaviours of our staff and the organization as a whole. We do not condone or tolerate activities contrary to our values.”
Sources have told the Citizen that one senior director in the hospital’s facilities and planning department — which handles major construction projects and renovations — is the focus of the investigation and has since left the hospital. It is not clear whether more than one employee has left the department or how many individuals are named in the suit.
The Citizen has learned the problem involves the execution of contracts with various building trades. Sources have also told the Citizen that change orders — which must be signed by more than one person when changes are required in an agreed-to contract — were a focus of the audit.
The investigation into what sources have told the Citizen are long-term irregularities comes at a time when the hospital is under increasing budget pressure. The Ottawa Hospital has 12,000 employees at three main locations and an annual operating budget of about $1.3 billion.
Last year, it cut 80 full-time jobs and saved $20 million. In 2014, the hospital announced 290 job cuts.
Its facilities and planning department is responsible for capital projects and renovations, which have been massive and ongoing in recent years. Over the past 15 years, the hospital has spent in excess of $200 million on renovations and expansions.
The hospital is also planning for a multi-billion-dollar replacement for the aging Civic hospital. It has announced plans to eventually build a new state-of-the-art hospital across the road from the existing Civic, on what is one of the Central Experimental Farm’s historic research fields.
epayne@postmedia.com
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