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CPH area needs physicians
By David Emslie
Clinton News-Record
With the arrival of one new family
physician, and the departure of
another, the local community
remains underserviced.
With the recent arrival of Dr. Lisa
Yang, Clinton came within one doc
tor of meeting its required service
designation, according to the
Ministry of Health. However, with
the announcement that Dr. Tom
Wenske will be moving his practice,
the Clinton catchment area is once
again two doctors short.
According to Janice Cosgrove,
vice-president’of multi-site adminis
tration for the Huron-Perth hospitals
group, the Clinton catchment area
includes Bayfield. As that communi
ty is serviced, in part, by Dr. Charles
Wallace, who is affiliated with South
Huron Hospital in Exeter, Clinton is
designated to have nine doctors,
including Dr. Wallace.
With the arrival of Dr. Yang,
Cosgrove explained that the total
reached eight, but this figure has
once again dropped down to seven
with Dr. Wenske's departure.
“We have to recruit two more
physicians to get up to nine,”
Cosgrove said, adding, however, that
this recruitment is not the easiest
task to undertake.
She explained that there is current
ly a shortage of family physicians in
the province, due partly to the fact
that a number of years ago, enroll
ments for medical schools were
reduced, and at the same time, physi
cians are retiring. This has resulted,
she said, in “a tremendous shortage
all across the province.”
This shortage, she added, has
resulted in a real competition among
Local UW
municipalities attempting to attract
new doctors. And this competition is
not only among the province’s small
er communities, as both the
Kitchener-Waterloo and Windsor
areas are considered underservice^.
“There is tremendous competi-tion
for communities that are small,” she
said.
Those working to attract doctors to
Clinton are not allowing this compe
tition to put a damper on their work,
as Cosgrove said that active recruit
ment efforts for doctors continue.
Advertisements have been placed
in physicians'journals with the hope
of attracting new doctors, and at the
same time, the hospital is working
with Jay Orchard, a community
development officer with the
Southwestern Ontario Rural
Medicine Unit, who works to match
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physicians with communities in
need. They are also following other
avenues to spread the word that
Clinton is in need of doctors.
Cosgrove noted that the process
followed is to send information to
possible recruits regarding the hospi
tal and the community, then talking
with the recruits, before having them
come to the area for a visit.
Stating that a number of physi
cians have been in contact with local
recruiters, she added that of all the
contacts that are made, “very few
materialize into an actual visit to our
community.”
Attempts at finding doctors for this
underserviced area will continue,
Cosgrove said.“We’ll be working at
it,” she said. “We’ll be keeping our
fingers crossed that we can entice
them to come.
Janice Henry, Blyth Legion Ladies Auxiliary, centre, and
Crystal Taylor, Blyth Legion presented Robert Szusz,Blyth
Community Centre board chair with cheques to help cover
the cost of the new $6,552.30 (including GST and PST) ice
resurfacing machine. The Legion donated $1,500 and the
Auxiliary $1,000. With the ice resurfacer in use for approx
imately one month, Szusz says the board would still be
pleased to receive donations to cover the cost.
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