{"id":945700,"date":"2026-10-25T12:32:42","date_gmt":"2026-10-25T12:32:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/945700\/"},"modified":"2026-10-25T12:32:42","modified_gmt":"2026-10-25T12:32:42","slug":"nape-president-says-government-needs-reality-check-on-healthcare-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/945700\/","title":{"rendered":"NAPE President says Government Needs \u2018Reality Check\u2019 on Healthcare System"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/jerry-earle-nape-president.png\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"NAPE President says Government Needs 'Reality Check' on Healthcare System\"\/>\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>NAPE is pleading with the provincial government to talk to frontline workers in seeking out proactive solutions to shortcomings in the health care system.<\/p>\n<p>Union President Jerry Earle was responding to what he calls the rosy picture government is painting after one year in power, saying the decision-makers in Confederation Building need a \u201creality check.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Earle told VOCM Open Line with Brian Callahan that many sectors in health care remain short staffed \u2013 struggling to meet the needs of patients.<\/p>\n<p>He cites the urgent care clinic in the city\u2019s west end as an example.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think Newfoundlanders and Labradorians are actually paying $100,000 a month\u2026for an empty building on the corner of Blackmarsh Road that should have been open six or nine months ago. They announced a while ago, they made it sound really good, they opened up lab services there. Guess how many people Brian? One. One person.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; NAPE is pleading with the provincial government to talk to frontline workers in seeking out proactive solutions&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":945701,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[49,48,84,392,269876,185074,269873,269875,269877,269874,269870,269871,269872],"class_list":["post-945700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-listen-to-vocm","tag-news-radio","tag-news-radio-st-johns","tag-st-johns-fm-radio","tag-st-johns-local-radio","tag-st-johns-radio-station","tag-vocm","tag-vocm-590","tag-vocm-radio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945700","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=945700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945700\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/945701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=945700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=945700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=945700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}