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Hospital board chooses site for medical clinic
by Margaret Stapleton
13y this time next year,
residents of Wingharn
and area will be served
by a new, fully -equipped
medical clinic located
immediately to the rear
of Wingham and District
Hospital.
In a unanimous deci-
sion at last week's
October meeting of the
hospital board of gover-
nors, members accepted a
Catherine Street location
as the preferred site. The
existing hospital clinic
• building and former nurs-
ing assistants' training
centre both will be
demolished to make way
for the clinic,which will
be connected to the hos-
pital. -*
in an interview after
last week's meeting,
•Lloyd Koch, hospital
executive director, said
the medical clinic com-
mittee will meet this
week with the architect to
define what elements will
go into the building. in
June, the hospital board
gave its approval in prin-
ciple to the concept of
building a 10,000 -square
n foot medical clinic which
would house eight to 10
doctors at a cost of not
more than $1.5 million.
Bob Pike, in The report
of the medical clinic
committee at last
Thursday's hospital
board' meeting,gave the
complete background of
the process which has led
to the clinic.
Abatit two years ago,
A strategic plan process
for the hospital was start -
"ed, said Pike. A commit-
tee was struck, the cow-
inunity surveyed and
groups provided input. A
facilitator helped to com
pile the data collected
with a specific eye
toward priorities for the
hospital. The completed
plan was presented to the
public, saki Pike, includ• -
ing the concept of a med-
ical clinic to meet the
present and future needs
of Winghani and area
residents.
The process of plan-
ning for a clinic started
last summer, he. contin-
'ued when an architect
was engaged and poten-
tial sites examined,
"The hospital is not in
the business of b-uilding
clinics," said Pike. But
efforts to enlist a private
developer for the clinic
failed. The local doctors,
some of whom will be
retiring in the next few
years, were unable to
complete a satisfactory
arrangement with the
developers.
However, in the past
10 years the community
has lost several doctors,
Pike continued. There
was the same number of
patients, he said, but they
were seeing fewer doc-
torS and some were Ong
ontside•the area, for med-
' kat treatment, resulting
•
in declining activity at
the local hospital "We
(the hospital) have a vest-
ed interest in trying to
'attract more doctors to
our hospital to use our
facilities and expertise,"
said Pike.
So the hospital took
the lead in the process.
The clinic committee got
serious in evaluating dif
ferent sites and visited
other clinics. The 'clinic
committee got serious in:
evaluating different sites
• and visited other clinics.
The announcement this
spring that Dr. Peter
Long was leaving, the
community brought
home the urgency of the
situation to the remaining
,doctors and they offered.
their support, said Pike.
The local economic
development committee
met with the clinic com-
mittee to make sugges-
tions. A site in downtown
Witrghaiti was deemed
unsuitable by the **chi,
tett because it would not
provide sufficient park-
ing As well, it was felt
the clinic should be built
as close to the hospital as
possible to make full use
of its services.
The choice of sites
eventually was narrowed
to two from four. The site
immediately to, the south
• of the hospital (the'
Wirigharn Medical Arts')
building, was deemed
unsuitable because it was
too small as the tee wanted wantedjohave as
much space as possible
on the ground floor;
Funding
As it was not possible
to co,pie to an agreement
• with a private developer
resources being
• committed are those of
this hospital," said Pike.
The money has been:.
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Did you wonder What
',Jennifer MacKinnon was
doing, standing on the
corner of Campbell and
Ross Street on Saturday?
Jennifer, was one of Over,
,400 volunteers
province -wide -wide who
helped count the number
Of drivers.* their com-
er1,1 st year's challenge,
seat ;belt use at 99
• per cent. A Transport
Canada survey in 1996.
shows driver Seit°;. belt
use at 42 Per, cent that
peopleleaves nearly 500,000
putting r lives• at risk everyday;
up tor saleLy.- •• restrained are cbildren
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count under heage.offive. In
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• vehicles were counted seats had been properly
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wearing belts. That's to all of the drivers.
76 per cit wearing seat Failing to wear a seat
correctly
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*from page 1- know the students
by writing to the minis," of this county will'have
ter. something to say about
Pointing to the hospi-
tals restructuring propos-
als and continuing
change in other sectors,
Trustee Carolyn Day said
everyone is in "overload"
from the demand to
respond to changes.
"Pm cynical enough
to believe this [overload)
is on purpose," Day said.
"But I hope parents take
time to read through and
respond to these propos-
this document. I hope
their voice corneS
'through loud a0,4 clear,"
he aided,
Board Chairman
Jennifer Yenssen sug-
gested the reform'pro-
posals should be put on
the agenda of the School
Community Advisory
Councils around the
county. • She said
Walkertun's council is
already considering
devoting a meeting to the
als. • topic.
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