VIHA Seeks New Hospital Housekeeping and Cleaning Services

VICTORIA - The Vancouver Island Health Authority is opting-out of it's contract with the private company which provides housekeeping and food services to several south island hospitals and long-term care facilities.
For six yeras Compass Group Canada has held the contract. It was renewed in 2009 for five years, but now, the health authority says it's time for a change. Critics say that Compass Group's record is far from clean, but VIHA insists the request for proposals is not a knee-jerk reaction to recent infection outbreaks.

Compass Group has been dogged by complaints and criticisms for the past six years. VIHA says housekeeping results have been inconsistent, and there have been reports of damaging Worksafe inspections.

Last year the BC Centre for Disease Control was tough on Compass for the way it handled a C. difficile outbreak which killed three people at Nanaimo Regional General Hospital. Compass provides housekeeping for 13 facilities and food services for nine facilities on south Vancouver Island.

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