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Huron Expositor, 2009-03-11, Page 17News The Huron Expositor • March 1 T 2009 Pierlabr 1.4or ER will still receive ambulance's,. Alliance -CEO says. Sarah McDonald Seaforth Hospital's emergency de- partment will not be turned into an urgent care centre if the Huron Perth Healthcare Alliance has anything to say about it. At their March 5 meeting, HPHA CEO Andrew Williams reassured board members that although the idea was brought forward at a recent HPHA Medical Advisory Committee (MAC) meeting, the HPHA remains firm in its stance that despite the recent changes to their hours of op- eration, the Seaforth ER should con- tinue to receive ambulances. In fact, the MAC passed a motion supporting maintaining the Seaforth Community Hospital as an Emer- gency Department at their meeting Feb. 26. "We talked about this because if you had a chance to read any of the reports across the province, there's a push that if a department is less than 24 hours, it shouldn't be receiv- ing ambulances and it should be an urgent care centre and we don't sup- port that at all," Williams explained. "We think that in rural communi- ties where the same professionals are supporting the department, that the hours of operation should not impact whether ambulances are received and its designation," he said.. Chief of Staff, Dr. Laurel Moore explained the difference between urgent care and emergency depart- ments citing St. Joseph's hospital in London, which is now being run as an urgent care department, as an ex- ample. "The idea is that they're going to manage fractures and lacerations but if you're critically ill and would need the services of an ambulance then you should be going to an emer- gency room," she said. "The walking wounded can go to an urgent care centre." However, Moore pointed out that because many people are not aware of the designation, urgent care cen- tres can wind up treating emergency patients. "What they're finding is that some people are arriving in extremis in their own car...because they don't re- aljze the difference between urgent care and emergency centre. So they arrive sometimes with a massive heart attack and they're managed there. They don't ship them out, they manage them there and stabilize and so on. So our feeling is that if you have to keep that skill set up for. the odd case that happens, you should be doing it all the time. It doesn't make sense," she said. "Ambulances would not go there," Moore added. "We think that's crazy, if Seaforth emergency room is open .' and they've got a competent physician and nurse in there, then we should be accepting an ambulance because it's a long distance to go maybe for the next stop." 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