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Home My WebLink AboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1993-01-27, Page 5A►rea.farmer will receive American award Congratulations to Stan. Eby, who , commercial purposes must be cer- is. one of three:. Ontario farmers' tified as a cutter/skidder and oper- 4 chosen to receive the American ARM REPORT ator in this province. Fore and Grassland • Council's Bruce County OMAF Presently . there is. a need for instructors td certify these woodlot owners who sell their products. The • Grey -Bruce Community Industrial Training Advisory Com- mittee, (CITAC) has funding to train six persons in beth Bruce and Grey Counties. This "Train the Trainer" program is a three-day' course that tentatively will be held in the Bruce -Grey area in February or early March. Topics of -discussion will include Swimmer� Report �.,�g..s�-s tree felling, chain saw. maintenance;. chain saw safety, safe work envi- ronments and skidder operations. Upon completion of this, course, these instructors will be able to The Final Report of the deliver courses and certify any Emergency Medical Servicesperson who is cutting and .selling Review, chaired by Gene Swimmer, wood from woodlots. makes wide-ranging • .For further information about this recommendations for the revamping "Train the Trainers" course on of the province's land and air Woodlot Cutter/Skidder Safety, ambulance systems. contact the Grey Bruce Community • . Industrial Training Advisory office Outstanding Grassland' Farmer Award for 1992..This award is presented to:.fanners to recognize excellence in forage crop produc- tion. The American Forage and Grass- land. Council (AFGC) is a non- profit organiz,ation, serving as a spokesman for4forage-based agricul- ture, and the entire forage industry.. The Ontario Soil and Crop Improvement Association is an affiliate of the AFGC. Stan received his award at the Ontario Soil and Crop Improvement Association Annual Meeting in Toronto. Cutter/Skidder Safety Instructor In 1989 a new law was passed in Ontario that any person. who cuts firewood'. or logs for industrial and wide-ranging. changes municipality would pay the rest. A municipality not prepared to carry• its share of costs would be required to turn the service over to the province under the same terms h as a ospita1 . ► Expand the 911 emergency system to cover the whole province, and make it accessible everywhere to the hearing impaired. It could be financed by adding a charge onto alltelephone customers' bills. ► Bring the whz!e. province under the Central Ambulance Communications Centre (CACC) by 1998, This means .central dispatching, which already exists in Huron County.'The dispatchers -whir relay calls to Huron ambulance officers are located in London. • 'Dispatchers should also be trained to give . first , aid and CPR instructions over the phone. Seaforth ambulance officer Art McNaughton says most. dispatchers have first-aid manuals nearby-, but adds that due to cutbacks, in scheduling (about five dispatchers cover all of Southwestern Ontario from London) may not have time to refer to them. ' ► • The Ministries of Health, Solicitor General and Transportation should- jointly explore the idea of .telephones on rural highways and in remote areas. . ► Anyone applying for a driver's licence should be required to take an Ontario Heart and Stroke 'Heart Saver,' course or equivalent : and, standard first-aid course. • The College of Physicians and Surgeons should consider removing. 'pain relief' from the list 'of delegated medical acts, This would mean trained and qualified non physicians would beable to administer pain -killers, ► Draw up and enforce legislation to ensure ambulance officers do not have to perform • inappropriate duties. Officers in hospital -run services, for example, could not be required .to work on the wards' while on duty, and those ., in \privately - managed services could not be required . to work at the owner's other, non -related business.. Nor would a,private manager be allowed to work at his or her non -related business while on duty. , ► Defensive driving training is not required for ambulance officers, but it should be. Standardized physical fitness programs should also be part of officers' training. Also known simply as the . Swimmer Report, it was completed in December 1991. It makes 109 recommendations, among then the 'following: F. Set up a two-tiered system of emergency and non -emergency vehicles where appropriate. The non -emergency vehicles would be used for such things as transporting patients ,from one hospital to another. ► Amend the Ambulance Act to create _ the' Emergency Health.. Services Commission (EHSC), which would eventually become the sole provider of air• and land• ambulance services in Ontario. It would be funded by the, province and report to the 'Minister. of Health. ► Replace private ambulance service owners' licenses with• three- year service contracts, All competent. p and qualified staff members would continue to work at equivalent. positions:. The owner would receive fair compensation for any assets bought- or leased. He or she could appeal the EHSC's financial, offer to the Health Facilities Appeal Board. If a private owner decides immediately not to sign a contract, he or she would be paid three times' the currents annual Management Compensation Plan (MCP), which is the plan covering what private owners are paid to manage an ambulance service. An owner who signs one contract and then opts out' would be paid5 times the current annual MCP. One who opts out after subsequent contracts would be paid half the current annual MCP. ► Hospitals would be able to give uptheir ambulance. services immediately or after a maximum of two contracts. ! If possible, ' the EHSC should arrange with the hospital to keep the service located on hospital premises. ► Allow licensed volunteer services to keep operating under contracts. ► Allow' municipalities which run ambulance services to continue to do. so. The EHSC would reimburse the municipality for 77 per cent of approved expenditures; the The Swimmer Report.:.. from page 3 The two-tiered •system, ' which would have separate vehicles for emergency • calls and for transporting fairly stable patients from one hospital to.another, hasn't been looked at closely enough, he said. The Sv'immer Report recommends using regular ambulance staff for both vehicles. But if a service doesn't have enough staff to cover two vehicles. at once and must hire more, what qualifications would they look for? If the new staff will be just for , transport vehicles, he says, will they •be paid the same as'fully-qualified ambulance officers? If not, will in Owen Sound at 371-5220 or the Walkerton O.M.A.F. office at 1- 800-265-3023, Lucknow Sentinel, Wednesday, January 27, 1993 - Page 5 AznbulanCe officers ask • now for your help To the editor: When you need help, dedicated ambulance officers are thereto save your life. Given the way the Ontario government neglects the ambulance service, it is a miracle they can help as much as they do. You should be able to get paramedic assistance whenever you need it no matter where you reside. Unfortunately, government policies stop ambulance officers from get- ting trained and from providing those services once they are trained. Aftere heart 'attack or stroke, you need emergency care right away. But in most of Ontario, you will wait at least 10 minutes or more for an ambulance. That may sound fast, but if you do not get care within haifrthat time, it could be too late. Ambulance officers want to. help you quickly, but the government at Queen's_ Park is slowing them down. This time, ambulance officers need you help, . A government report has said that a province -wide ambulance service 'could deal with problems like these. It could make advanced life support more available and save money by eliminating administrative duplica- tion. Please, take five minutes and save your life. Ask you MPP why the government will not provide •better service to your community. Thank you. GODERICH AMBULANCE: Liz Brown, Greg Gordon, David Harrison, Joseph Ducharme, Brian Rockwood, Tony Southwell, Gary Renaud, Sandy Clough, Allan Chrysler. WINGHAM AMBU- LANCE: Robert Hopper, Cheryl Waring, Eric Cleave, Harold Mar- tin: SEAFORTH/CLINTON AMBULANCE: Ben Driscoll, Art McNaughton, Roy Dalton, Dave Campbell, Gary Betties, Richie Cox, Randy Poisson, Pat Thompson, Greg Schwindt, Bob Watson, Greg Cook, Paul Kruse, Jim Segeren. DASHWOOD AMBULANCE: Robert Wolfe., Laurie Ferguson, Dean Boyle, Rob Verberne. 4 officers' jobs be lost because they're more expensive? .a..� Private owners must obtain a license td runt service_ Basically, • says Prre'-e `th`e- r inter -Report... recommends "calling all licenses in and deciding afresh where ambulance services will be based." Operating costs are paid by the Ministry of Health, but private operators' do have equity in such ' items as the building housing the service. Also, many private operators' basic source of income comes from a second business. 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