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HomeMy WebLinkAboutHuron Expositor, 2006-04-26, Page 6Page 6 April 26, 2006 • The Huron Expositor 1111111111111111111111111 News Seaforth hospital here to heal ailments, not palates To the Editor, In response to the negative reports about Seaforth Hospital food the past two weeks. When one signs an admission form, one does not write a cheque for their care e.g. bed, food, bath, entertainment, spiritual direction: and most important your health care. You just check in, showing a card, and it's a free ride. So does one really have room to complain? I personally have never spent enough time in Seaforth Hospital to receive any meals, but have had family members be patients. They made the odd food comment, so I just took a meal from home up to them if there were no diet restric- tions. The point I would like to make is that Seaforth Hospital is not a four-star resort. It is a health care facility and with all the talk of closing hospitals, I feel one should be more positive than negative at this time. In most cases, you're out in rea- sonable time, nursed back to health. There is the odd case where you're sent home and our health care couldn't cure you, but have been treated with their best medical knowledge, positive atti- tude and prayer. Closing hospitals today appears to be a #1 issue, I worry about ours. I feel we truly do need a hos- pital, so writing negative reports is not helping to support its opera- tion. I feel the Seaforth staff is a real cool crew, and is there to heal our ailments, not our palates. With the way: our health care system is operating today, we should be pleased to just be admit- ted into Seaforth Hospital as a patient and treated for our illness, rather than being placed on a waiting list. We truly do have a lot to be thankful for. Donna O'Brien Seaforth LAWSON KILLER. 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The Seaforth physicians are having some issues to work through," said Nelligan, adding she couldn't speak for the Seaforth doc- tors about what their concerns are. The original proposal for the Seaforth FHT was to expand into the rest of Huron County but FHTs have also been-. announced for Goderich, Wingham and Bluewater. Recently, doctors in Seaforth and Clinton have been talking about a joint FHT for both communities with sites planned for both towns. "The province has been very sup- portive of having two sites. It's a good use of resources," says Nelligan. While the business plan is identi- fying the Clinton Medical Clinic as the location of the FHT there, Nelligan says negotiations have not gone far enough to identify where a FHT would be located in Seaforth. Nelligan says the business plan asks for provincial money to help to renovate the Clinton clinic to accommodate the FHT. Dr. Jim MacLean, the lead doctor on the creation of family health teams for the Ministry of Health, says FHTs will have two sources of funding from the province - operat- ing funding, which includes salaries, administration, supplies and information technology and infrastructure funding, which could expand offices or contribute towards new locations for FHTs. He says Seaforth and Clinton are currently negotiating the business plan and the size of the health team and will have a budget associated with those elements. MacLean says benefits of a FHT include an improved level of care from a primary health care team, usually resulting in a better out- come. "I'm very hopeful everyone in Seaforth will see the benefits to the community and be able to take advantage of the opportunity," he says. "If I were a member of the com- munity, I'd be very disappointed if I'd. be given the opportunity to form a FHT and then it didn't happen," says MacLean. 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