New Brunswick health authority allegedly warned about prior problems with travel nurse company · Globe and Mail

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The private health care staffing company at the centre of an uproar over cost overruns was faulted by New Brunswick for shoddy record-keeping during an earlier and previously unreported deployment to the province to administer COVID-19 vaccines, new interviews and records show.

Vitalité chief executive officer France Desrosiers told the committee last week that the network’s $100-million deficit is entirely owing to travel-nursing costs and that CHL “took advantage of their monopoly” on available bilingual travel nurses to charge higher rates.

New Brunswick was in a dire situation at the time when CHL chief executive Bill Hennessey first contacted an associate deputy minister for health, via a Dec. 29, 2021, e-mail, to offer bilingual temporary workers.

Premier Blaine Higgs had lifted pandemic restrictions in August but the more transmissible Omicron variant struck in the fall, forcing the province to impose a new lockdown and ramp up vaccination.

In a letter later shared with provincial vaccination planners, Mr. Hennessey wrote that CHL had “a growing team of ~1,200+ bilingual [health care] workers,” including “experienced COVID-19 immunizers” who had “worked with multiple EMRs [electronic medical records].”

Mr. Hatchard told The Globe that a quality check of PHIS data found that “some information about dose or brand may be missing” because three CHL immunizers hadn’t properly filled out forms for 32 vaccine recipients.

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This is the best summary I could come up with:
The private health care staffing company at the centre of an uproar over cost overruns was faulted by New Brunswick for shoddy record-keeping during an earlier and previously unreported deployment to the province to administer COVID-19 vaccines, new interviews and records show.
Vitalité chief executive officer France Desrosiers told the committee last week that the network’s $100-million deficit is entirely owing to travel-nursing costs and that CHL “took advantage of their monopoly” on available bilingual travel nurses to charge higher rates.
New Brunswick was in a dire situation at the time when CHL chief executive Bill Hennessey first contacted an associate deputy minister for health, via a Dec. 29, 2021, e-mail, to offer bilingual temporary workers.
Premier Blaine Higgs had lifted pandemic restrictions in August but the more transmissible Omicron variant struck in the fall, forcing the province to impose a new lockdown and ramp up vaccination.
In a letter later shared with provincial vaccination planners, Mr. Hennessey wrote that CHL had “a growing team of ~1,200+ bilingual [health care] workers,” including “experienced COVID-19 immunizers” who had “worked with multiple EMRs [electronic medical records].”
Mr. Hatchard told The Globe that a quality check of PHIS data found that “some information about dose or brand may be missing” because three CHL immunizers hadn’t properly filled out forms for 32 vaccine recipients.
The original article contains 1,114 words, the summary contains 220 words. Saved 80%. I'm a bot and I'm open source!