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Municipal donations will help
clinic upgrade building, computers
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"I need to communicate to some of the people directly
involved first," he said Monday.
The meeting minutes also say that the SCH foundation and
the Huron -Perth Healthcare Alliance are in agreement to "the
reactivation of the Medical Clinic Trust," a "corporation of the
hospital and a partner of the Alliance and Foundation," which
will manage the lands and the clinic. It will also be used as the
board of management for the clinic, operated as a business
centre and each of the doctors will be a tenant of the building.
Seaforth Coun. Joe Steffler, who is also chair of the Seaforth
Community Development Trust, said the donation, especially
if it goes towards the computer equipment, will go a long way
in helping the Seaforth and Huron East community.
"I think it's a great thing for Seaforth with spin-offs into
Huron East. The hospital foundation ig setting up a trust that
will revitalize the clinic and I hope it attracts more doctors and
makes better working conditions for everyone at the clinic,"
said Steffler.
"I'm very happy that we're giving them the money," he said,
adding that the trust decided to make the donation at its Nov. 4
meeting.
Deputy -Mayor Bernie MacLellan is quoted in the minutes
saying the municipality "feels the need to be a partner in the
operation of the clinic."
Dr. Percival argues for retaining
surgery at Seaforth's hospital
From Pogo 1
Clinton any time soon,"
Percival says Seaforth's two
operating rooms and two
anaesthesia machines are
going to be necessary to the
Alliance.
"Surgeries have to be
done somewhere," she says,
adding that she doesn't see
how keeping surgery in
Seaforth would add to the
Alliance's costs.
She says Seaforth is
already the site for dental
outpatient surgery out of
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Stratford once or twice a
month because of room
shortages at Stratford
General and patients travel
from Stratford; Kincardine
and Parkhill to have dental
surgery rather than face a
year and a half wait in
Stratford.
"This would make
Seaforth more viable, leave
OR spaces in Stratford for
those oh so important knee
and hip rgplacements and
help keep my skills up as
well," says Percival in her
letter to Williams.
"I just cannot see how
Clinton could handle all the
cases and not end up with a
backlog and even longer
waiting lists," she says.
Percival says orthopedic
surgery was performed in
Seaforth until Dr. Fowler
left in May but the service
has not been continued with
the hiring of a new
orthopedic surgeon in
Stratford.
"We understood the new
fellow would come back but
everything ground to a halt
with the budget process,"
she says.
Williams says that while
offering surgery at only two
Alliance sites is a
"preliminary suggestion" in
the budget process, he'll be
meeting with Percival to
discuss her suggestions.
"It's a bit premljure to
say if we can do it or not.
But, I'll be talking to
surgeons and
anesthesiologists. We're
continuing to look at the
issue," he says:
"I'm open to looking at
different scenarios."
Employees of Seaforth Community Hospital wave at passing cars during an information picket
last Tuesday to protest against provincial pressure on local hospitals.
Hospital unions protest push
by province to balance budget
By Susan Hundertmark
Expositor Editor
Protesting the province's
push to force Ontario
hospitals to balance their
budgets, a handful of support
workers at Seaforth
Community Hospital held an
information picket at noon
last Tuesday.
"We don't think going after
people's contracts is the way
to balance the budgets of
hospitals," said Deb Ward,
site chair of the Canadian
Union of Public Employees
(CUPE).
Ward was referring to
rumours that the province
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may be considering allowing
hospitals to open the contracts
of its unionized employees to
allow hospitals to balance
their budgets.
Deb Hirdes, president of
CUPE Local 4727, said the
union has been worried since
the Ontario Hospitals
Association president told
Premier Dalton McGuinty in
a letter that the only way
hospitals can balance their
budgets is by opening up
contracts and stripping
workers of their successor
rights and job security.
"When he's (McGuinty's)
been asked the question of
whether he'll do that, he's
avoided the answer so that
starts to be worrisome for us."
said Hirdes.
She said Bill 29 in British
Columbia stripped hospital
workers of their job security
in 2001 and 6,000 workers
lost their jobs. She said the
others were hired hack at $9
an hour with no benefits or
pensions.
"We're losing our rights
and they'll contract out our
jobs at minimum wage. If you
think SARS was bad, try
dealing with it with support
staff that isn't trained in
infection control," said Ward.
CUPE represents 32
support workers at SCH,
including housekeepers,
dietary workers, registered
practical nurses, medical
records staff, clerical staff and
rehabilitation assistants.
Ward said the protest was
not aimed at the Huron -Perth
Healthcare Alliance but at the
provincial government and its
insistence that hospitals
balance their budgets.
While a balanced budget
plan for the Alliance could
lead to 72 job losses
throughout the four member
hospitals, Ward said local
workers don't know yet how
many will be affected in
Seaforth.
"We haven't been given
exact numbers at this hospital
but we don't expect to be left
alone either," she said.
"We're not saying there
isn't waste out there but we
need to go from the top down,
not the bottom up," said
Ward.
While no other information
pickets are planned locally,
Hirdes said hospital unions
will he picketing Huron -
Bruce Carol Mitchell's office
on Nov. 26 and attending a
"Keep Your Promises" labour
rally in Toronto on Nov. 27.
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