The Huron Expositor, 1998-12-09, Page 2a-TNE HURON EXPOSITOR, osmium s, HOB
Oilier obstetric services remain
Moms encouraged to return to Seaforth four hours after birth
BY SCOTT IH LGENDORFF
Expositor Editor
New mothers can be back
in Seaforth Community
Hospital in as quickly as four
hours after giving birth at
another hospital.
Yvonne Kitchen, chief
nursing officer, said the
hospital's services remain the
same for new mothers
despite the loss of physician
led deliveries.
"We are encouraging early
discharge from the hospital
where they deliver within
four hours," she said. Urging
the mother to come back to
her own community and
family.
While a new mom can
choose to go home within
four hours of delivering, the
average length of stac in a
hospital is 1.9 days.
Kitchen said the new mom
..can return to Seaforth
Community Hospital and
would likely be discharged at
the end of the following day.
The only change to the
services the hospital offers to
parents is a preadmission
clinic where parents make an
appointment to document
their health history with a
registered nurse at the
hospital before the patient
delivers.
This information is
gathered by whichever
hospital the expectant mother
chooses for the birth.
Otherwise, before birth,
the mother regularly meets
with her local physician
performing such tasks as
developing a. birth plan.
Expectant parents can
come to the hospital for
parent information sessions
that are held quarterly and
include topics of pain
management. breast feeding
and a tour of the facility.
Presenters at these sessions
include physicians,
physiotherapists and a breast
feeding facilitator.
After delivery, new moms
receive a follow-up call 24
hours after being discharged
from the hospital, after two
to- three weeks and six
months later.
The calls are made to
Karen Searle who runs the
parent support group and is
done to see if the parents
need any help or have any
questions. Searle can connect
them with the information or
agencies they need for help.
• A weekly, new parent
support group (whose name
is being changed to Morning
Out) is ongoing and provides
a place for parents to learn
from each other, share stories
and hear from speakers on
topics they request.
In about six to eight
weeks, the parents arc
referred to a Huron Count)
Health Unit program called
Life After Baby.
Shepherd thinks situation
will be a temporary one
FROM Pagel
She thinks the situation
will be temporary.
Norris said past hoards
have built up a strong
obstetrics program that saw
the hospital move from
handling only a few births a
year to about 80 now.
Seaforth was one of the
first hospitals to implement a
midwifery service hut it has
also experience the same
changes in physician
resources that has led to an
overall drop in the proportion
of physicians practicing
obstetrics. said a press
release from the hospital.
"Midwife deliveries will
continue thanks to ongoing
surgical and- anaesthetic
coverage." said the release.
There will also he a twice
monthly obstetrical clini •
held with specialists fron
Stratford. beginning in
January.
Physician -led deliveries
will he suspended on January
31. 1999.
Couple deserves to be punished but can't be
FROM Page I
Justice William Jenkins
said he had no idea what
could have motivated the
Manesses to lie about
Mistie's whereabouts.
• "Their conduct is
reprehensible and they
deserve to be punished,"
Jenkins said in Ontario
Court, general division.
"However, largely due to
thc inexperience of a law
student. they cannot be
convicted."
Jenkins said the court could
not be certain the law student
had clearly indicated the
affidavits could he used at
trial and were sworn
statements.. He said even.
Mistie Murray's mother.
Anne, had testified under
cross-examination by Peter.
County -wide policing
a step closer to being
-Next year. thc cost is
expected to increase to $6.6
million.
Under__a.-_ county -.wide
system. the OPP estimate
administrative • and
operational efficiencies
would allow them to deliver.
thc same service for about
$5.8 million.
Who pays?
• Some townships said they
should pay less because they
have less access to police
than the towns.
What • the OPP
recommended is a cost
allocation based on
'workload' ratios.
The number of calls to
each municipality would be
recorded • and each
municipality would pay for
their percentage of the
county's over-all number of
calls.
Those percentages would
be averaged over a number
of consecutive years to avoid
any massive cost variations'
for hot or slow crime years
in any given municipality. •
'Municipal councils have
until Dec. 31 to review the
OPP costing and report back
to the county.
Found stoney
Solicitor General •Bob
Runciman announced Nov.
24 the details of the
Community Policing
Partnerships program that
will help fund new police
officers across the province.
The province has
committed up to 50 per cent
of the salary costs for newly -
hired police officers while
the balance will be paid h)
the municipality.
The program calls for a
grant of up to $700,000 for
Huron to hire five new
officers.
OPP Sergeant Gary Martin
told county council the
addition of five officers to
the Huron force should not
be considered as "extra"
people.
In fact, he said thc five
officers Huron will get under
the new government program
will merely help bring the
county force up to a
minimum standard.
Martin said the county
actually needs seven
additional officers to meet
the provincial and municipal
policing responsibilities in
Huron, and those additional
officers have already been
factored into the county -wide
OPP costing.
He said it was just a
"coincidence" the province
announced the S700,000
grant at the same time the
county is considering a new
contract.
BY BLAKE PATTERSON
Signal -Star Staff
Huron County policing
will soon be "seamless" if
municipalities accept a
$5,810.775 OPP contract.
OPP representatives were
at County Council on Nov.
26 to present an estimate of
how much it will cost to
police the entire county
under one contract.
Reading from the police
costing report. County
representative Craig Metzger
said if the contract is
accepted. it could save the
county $750,000 each year.
County Council requested
the OPP costing last year in
hopes savings could be
Mound. •
Same service
The new county -wide
contract does not include
Wingharn and is based on the
current levels of service
being provided to the
county's other .25
municipalities.
Metzger explained the
$5.8-mil1ion price tag
includes the salaries and
benefits of uniformed and
civilian members of the staff.
and other expenses such as
police cars, buildings,
equipment and
communication costs.
The county force would
have 78 uniformed officers
and 11 civilian staff. There
would'be one inspector, one
staff sergeant, eight sergeants
and 68 constables.
Existing police offices in
Wingham, Exeter and
Goderich would be used as
operations centres and
various community policing
offices would be set-up in
other smaller communities
throughout the county..
According to Metzger. the
county -wide contract will
give the municipalities
"known costs" in regards to
their policing each year and
allow the police to
consolidate and share
resources.
From a policing
standpoint, OPP Sergeant
Shawn Johnson said the new
contract will allow the OPP
to offer an "integrated"
police service. The OPP will
be able to become more
efficient and Community
Policing Committees will
help bring forward local
concerns to the police, said
Johnson.
This year, the total cost of
OPP policing in Huron, as
well as the "over and above"
costs of police service
boards, some buildings and
staff, equalled $6.2 million.
Behr that she didn't think the
law student had clearly
explained the documents to
the Manesses.
Neither Behr. lawyer for
Robert Maness. nor John
Getliffc. Robin's lawyer.-
called
awyer;called any witnesses for the
defence.
Anne Murray said she'd
met the Manesses at a
London pool hall in late
1996. The connection began
with a Child Find poster of
Mistic and continued after
the pool hall owner told
Murray's sister about a teen
who stayed with the
Manesses.
Anne Murray told Jenkins
that Robin Maness appeared
unaware of the murder
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At the second-degree
murder trial, a young woman.
then 17. testified she met
Mistic in a shopping mall in
June 1995. The teen said
Mistie identified herself as a
runaway from Goderich.
In October 1997. the teen
and ttie Manesses were
arrested and charged. The
teen was found guilts. of
perjury last summer and was
placed on two years'
probation. She was also
ordered to - perform
community service and
undergo psychiatric
treatment.
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