HSN employees take 179 spots on Sunshine List

Forty-eight more Health Sciences North employees made the 2014 Sunshine List than in 2013.

The annual Sunshine List discloses the names and salaries of Ontario public sector workers who made more than $100,000 in a year.

The results for 2014, which the province released Friday, March 27, featured 179 employees at Health Sciences North, compared to 131 in the previous year.

The hospital employees who made more than $100,000 in 2014 represent just over four per cent of Health Sciences North's total staff. The hospital employs around 3,900 people.

Health Sciences North's highest paid employee in 2014 was Dr. Chris Bourdon, the hospital's vice-president and chief of staff, with a salary that year of $374,521.

Hospital president and CEO, Dr. Denis Roy, was second on the list with a salary of $347,768 in 2014.

Bourdon received taxable benefits of $5,577 in 2014, while Roy's taxable benefits totalled $12,907.

The list of Health Sciences North employees who made more than $100,000 in 2014 includes 35 registered nurses, 18 pharmacists, five nurse practitioners and five nurse technicians.

Due to increasing costs, and a third budget freeze in as many years, the hospital announced March 25 it would need to cut $5.2 million to achieve a balanced budget for the 2015-2016 fiscal year.

The hospital submitted a budget of $427.4 million for that fiscal year, which begins April 1, 2015.

To achieve a balanced budget the hospital said it will need to cut just over 35 full-time equivalent non-management positions, or about one per cent of unionized positions at the hospital.

Health Science North is also cutting 6.4 full-time equivalent management positions, or around three per cent of total management employees.

"To minimize the impact on patients and employees, HSN has focused its efforts on finding efficiencies using such measures as not filling existing vacancies, attrition, and reductions in scheduled hours," the hospital said in a press release.

Sudbury's third highest paid public sector worker in health care was Richard Joly, the CEO of the North East Community Care Access Centre.

Joly made $299,465 in 2014, with taxable benefits of $1,084.

Joly's salary increased by four per cent in a year. He made $288,000 in 2013.

Twenty-two North East Community Care Access Centre employees made the Sunshine list for 2014.

The North East Local Health Integration Network (LHIN) featured 16 employees who made the list.

Louise Paquette, the North East LHIN's CEO, topped the list for her organization with a salary of $258,284 in 2014.

The Sudbury and District Health unit featured six staff members on the 2014 Sunshine List.

Dr. Penny Sutcliffe, the health unit's medical officer of health, was its highest paid employee with a salary of $272,524 in 2014.

For the province's full public salary disclosure list click here.