Michelle Ferguson

Advocate for mental health and substance use and healthcare reform in BC.

[Michelle Ferguson @MichelleFergy]

@elenoresturko @markroseman We need to return to community driven healthcare - as we had prior to this proven disastrous health authority model.

[Michelle Ferguson @MichelleFergy]

@DrKindyMLA It’s not just access - it’s about access to what. It needs to be access to quality care/treatment. The HA have focused too much on just access and not enough on the quality of care.

[Michelle Ferguson @MichelleFergy]

@mdmama_ @markroseman The healthcare unions are throwing us under when we raise concerns and are wrongfully terminated. Need public inquiry into the role @Health Sciences Association is playing in chronic shortage

[Michelle Ferguson @MichelleFergy]

@TrevHal @Dave_Eby And Bill 36, the HPOA Health Professions and Occupations Act - there will be a massive exodus of healthcare professionals - in both public AND private healthcare sectors - come April 2026

[Michelle Ferguson @MichelleFergy]

@Josie_Osborne Yes, mental health should not be weaponized. Talk to Fraser Health. When my GP provided a medical note I was off work, Fraser Health terminated my 18 years of employment,

[Michelle Ferguson @MichelleFergy]

@Josie_Osborne

[Michelle Ferguson @MichelleFergy]

@ToorJody The NDP need to focus on the bullying and termination of healthcare professionals by the corporate tier in the health authorities, first and foremost, before spending BC taxpayers $$$ to hire Americans.

[Michelle Ferguson @MichelleFergy]

@MDHALIWAL4BC @TrevHal The NDP need to fix the bullying of frontline healthcare workers by the corporate tier in the health authorities, first and foremost, before spending $$$ on recruiting Americans.

[Michelle Ferguson @MichelleFergy]

@Josie_Osborne Let extended health benefits cover mental health occupational therapy. See you at the BCACC conference next weekend!

[Michelle Ferguson @MichelleFergy]

@PennyDaflos @mdmama_ Under regionalization, we had excellent mental health and substance use day programs. When we moved to the health authority model, corporate axed our programs and solely focused on length of stay and access to care versus quality of treatment and outcome measures.

[Michelle Ferguson @MichelleFergy]

@mdmama_ @alexnatarosMD @alandrummond2 Did you know under regionalization, our former healthcare structure, we on the frontlines made the decisions? That is where healthcare in BC went wrong - when BC implemented the health authority model.

[Michelle Ferguson @MichelleFergy]

@MLABrennanDay We have a structure-imposed doctor shortage. Under regionalization, directors were on the frontlines. The director of my team was a psychiatrist & carried a caseload. Under HA, directors no longer practice their profession and make decisions in city towers. Need to restructure

[Michelle Ferguson @MichelleFergy]

@drpaulwinston We have a structure-imposed doctor shortage. Under regionalization, the directors were on the frontlines. The director of my team was a psychiatrist - he carried a caseload. Under the HA model, the directors are in city towers. Makes for poorer decisions as well.

[Michelle Ferguson @MichelleFergy]

@RobShaw_BC @Josie_Osborne @ClaireRattee @JohnRustad4BC @AnnaKindy1962 Dr Kaitlin Stockton was bullied and harassed in Fraser Health. Is BC MoH okay with Fraser Health’s actions? Is BC MoH ok with doctors being bullied in publicly funded healthcare?

[Michelle Ferguson @MichelleFergy]

@Fraserhealth Hospital foundation boards consist of key leaders within individual communities-all volunteers-no cost to taxpayers. Yet, vastly superior in meeting healthcare needs of community & maintaining budgetary constraints than any health authority. Why continue health authority model?

[Michelle Ferguson @MichelleFergy]

@RobShaw_BC This is actually a positive change. China had us at 100% tariffs against our canola (and pea industry) in spring in retaliation to Trudeau and Carney’s 100% tariffs on China’s EVs and 25% on aluminum and steel.

[Michelle Ferguson @MichelleFergy]

@TrevorJain @MichelleGhsoub @CAEP_Docs @CMA_Docs @MichelleGhsoub I too faced harassment and bullying in FH for raising concerns about pt care & that the approach FH was rolling out to reduce violence in mental health settings was not supported by robust research

[Michelle Ferguson @MichelleFergy]

@RobShaw_BC @TheOrcaBC I trusted my union, Health Sciences Association to protect me. Instead HSA threw me under and signed off that I be banned from Fraser Health

[Michelle Ferguson @MichelleFergy]

@RobShaw_BC @TheOrcaBC There is no whistleblower protection in Fraser Health. All stays in house. My experience was immediate retaliation and a wrongful termination

[Michelle Ferguson @MichelleFergy]

@DrKindyMLA @ClaireRattee @Josie_Osborne @Dave_Eby @JohnRustad4BC @TrevHal @RobShaw_BC @preta_6 BC unions are failing to represent BC healthcare workers when wrongfully terminated for raising concerns about patient care = BC tax dollars hiring Americans