{"id":58830,"date":"2025-08-10T09:29:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T09:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/58830\/"},"modified":"2025-08-10T09:29:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T09:29:10","slug":"new-licences-for-private-clinics-mean-shorter-wait-times-for-ct-scans-endoscopies-province","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/58830\/","title":{"rendered":"New licences for private clinics mean shorter wait times for CT scans, endoscopies: province"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three private clinics in Windsor-Essex will get provincial money to provide more endoscopies, MRIs and CT scans \u2014 a move both politicians and the clinics say will shorten local wait times.<\/p>\n<p>RAAMP Endoscopy, a new clinic owned the chief of staff at Windsor Regional Hospital, is expected to open next year.\u00a0Rose City Endoscopy will also do\u00a0more procedures, the province says, as will GMNI MRI\/CT in Windsor.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Windsor-Tecumseh PC MPP Andrew Dowie says residents have sounded the alarm about\u00a0local wait times. Faster answers, he says, means less stress and anxiety.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In Windsor-Essex,\u00a0it means far fewer anxious days waiting for appointments,&#8221; he said at a Friday press conference.<\/p>\n<p>Dowie&#8217;s announcement is part of a wider expansion that will see the province spend $155 million over two years on 57 new surgical and diagnostic centres.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"A man in a suit stands at a podium \"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/andrew-dowie.JPG\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.3333333333333333\" data-cy=\"image-img\"\/>Andrew Dowie, PC MPP for Windsor-Tecumseh, announced money for more endoscopy services at three privately run clinics.  (Dalson Chen\/CBC)<\/p>\n<p>The local clinics answered the province&#8217;s call for applications to expand their services. The province will start licensing the services \u2014 which means they will be publicly funded and covered by OHIP \u2014 next year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Wassim Saad owns\u00a0RAAMP,\u00a0which stands for Rapid Assessment and Management Program. He says\u00a0having more licensed centres means less pressure on the hospital system.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The hospitals are absolutely being crushed right now by things that don&#8217;t necessarily need to be in a hospital,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Anything and everything that we can do to offload the hospital saves and protects our hospitals for acute care, which is what they&#8217;re meant to do.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Dowie\u00a0says\u00a0this doesn&#8217;t mark a move into privatized\u00a0health care. Privately owned clinics, which have been providing such services for years,\u00a0are best positioned to do the work.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When you do one thing well, you have the ability to not have to rotate and revolve a space,&#8221; he said.\u00a0&#8220;There&#8217;s just less time spreading the knowledge around. You know what you do, and you do it extremely well.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These procedures are publicly funded,\u00a0so it has no resemblance to the American health-care system.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three private clinics in Windsor-Essex will get provincial money to provide more endoscopies, MRIs and CT scans \u2014&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58831,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[49,48,84,392],"class_list":["post-58830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-health","tag-healthcare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}