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PAGE 24. THE CITIZEN, THURSDAY, JULY 20, 2006.
Smitherman visits Wingham
By Susan Hundertmark
Huron Expositor
Seaforth and Clinton will be
proceeding with two separate family
health teams (FHTs) after a meeting
in Seaforth last Thursday with
Ontario Health Minister George
Smitherman.
"One will be more clinical and
one will be more community-driven.
They can go in their own directions
and it will give back to what each
community needs," said Huron-
Bruce MPP Carol Mitchell the day
after the meeting.
Mitchell said Dr. Dan Rooyakkers
from Seaforth and Dr. Keith Hay,
from Clinton, were very pleased
after their meeting with
Smitherman. -
"They- said there will still be
opportunities to share their
knowledge and services," she said.
In the spring of 2005, Seaforth
was one of the first 52 family health
teams to be approved by the
province. Seaforth's proposal aimed
to look after orphan patients
throughout Huron, starting in
Seaforth and eventually creating
satellite offices throughout the
county.
Early in 2006, Clinton doctors
began talking about joining with
Seaforth in its FHT proposal but
during closed meetings of the FHT
steering committee to create a
business plan, questions about
doctor remuneration became an
issue and concerns were raised
about-Seaforth losing its chance at a
FHT.
When the steering committee sent
its business plan to the Ministry of
Health at the end of May,
community members in Seaforth
sent their own amendment to the
plan.
The amendment expressed the
concern that the original proposal
for the Seaforth FHT be followed,
recommending Clinton be
considered a "stand-alone
physician-led FHT."
"Clinton as a stand-alone
physician-led FHT appears to this
amendment to be sufficient and
appropriate, even though its
physicians apparently did not meet
timing limits for an application as a
physician-led FHT as did other
centres in. Huron County and
elsewhere. We leave it to the
Ministry to consider making an
exception to its rulings in this
regard," said the amendment.
"That's exactly as we'd
recommended," said Huron East
economic development officer
Ralph Laviolette, in response to the
news of two separate FHTs in
Seaforth and Clinton.
Dr. Rooyakkers said he's glad to
see a resolution to the work of the
past few years planning into the
FHT.
"It's a very easy way to allow two
groups to pursue two distinct types
of governance," he said Monday of
the plan to pursue two separate
FHTs."Seaforth always wanted it to
be community-driven and it was a
question of how the Clinton site was
going to be incorporated into that
model," he said.
Rooyakkers said that with a
family health network (FHN)
already in place in Clinton, Clinton
doctors were more comfortable with
a doctor-led FHT.
In a doctor-led FHT, three
physicians are necessary to begin
the team, whereas in a community-
led FHT, only one physician is
necessary.
"The CFHT (community-led
family health team) in Seaforth as
originally described in the approved
concept plan - information request
form, is ready and able to begin
operation without further delay with
a minimum of investment, with
ample skills sets, professionals,
volunteers and other personnel and
with the financial backing and
involvement of the Seaforth
community available," said the
By Duane Rollins
Wingham Advance-Times
The Wingham and District
Hospital is getting a $250,000 cash.
injection from the McGuinty
government.
Minister of Health and Long-Term
Care George Smitherman was in
Wingham July 13 to make the
announcement.
During the announcement, the
Minister expressed a personal
commitment to rural health care.
"I may be from downtown
Toronto, but the closest hospital to
my mother is in Meaford,"
Smitherman said. "It gives me
comfort to know that she is a short
distance away from the quality
health care that is provided in rural
Ontario."
Smitherman said the money
provided will allow the Wingham
and District Hospital to continue its
"proud tradition of service."
"When you walk around (rural
hospitals) you realize that, although
the most important aspect of health
care is the front-line service
amendment.
Rooyakkers is currently the lead
doctor for the Seaforth FHT and he
said it will be determined over the
summer how many other Seaforth
doctors want to get involved in the
FHT.
He said the FHT should be up and
providers, you need quality
infrastructure to allow them to do
their work."
Smitherman said the money
would allow the hospital to provide
better emergency, ambulatory care,
diagnostic and surgical services.
The hospital's chief executive
officer thanked the Minister and said
she was proud to be part to be
delivering quality rural health care.
"I was unwillingly-involved in car
accident last week," Margret
Comack said. "And, as I sat in the
car with glass all over me, I was
thankful that I was only a short, 10-
-minute drive away from quality
diagnostic care at the Listowel
Hospital.
"I'm so proud to be involved in
the delivery of health care in rural
Ontario."
Both Smitherman and Comack
said that the improvements in
infrastructure should assist the
region in attracting more physicians.
Recently, two doctors have left the
area and it is classified as being
under-serviced by three doctors.
"Our government has been
running sometime over the next
three to six months.
"We'll be looking for people to
form a board and we'll see how the
summer plays out in. terms of doctor
population," said Rooyakkers.
"There's light at the end of the
tunnel now," he said.
concentrating on fixing the damage
that the previous_ two governments
have inflicted on the health care
system," Smitherman said.
He said the McGuinty government
was committed to improving access
to care throughout the province by
increasing the amount of doctors in
Ontario.
"When we took over, our medical
schools were reduced to a nugget of
what they were. We have done a
good job of increasing the amount of
doctors we are training and in
improving the process of certifying
foreign-born doctors. But, that
process will take time."
Training students today creates a pool of
skilled workers for tomorrow
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FHT will come to Seaforth, Clinton