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Home My WebLink AboutTimes Advocate, 1996-11-20, Page 22MERCURY Page 22 Times -Advocate, November 20, 1996 Hensall Legion Past President Larry Uyl was presented with a merit award for service at the Nov. .11 banquet. Picture from left are Larry Uyl, zone commander, Gordon De Jong, Byron Fink, president, and Past Zone Comnlander John McDonald. Hensall Legion present awards HENSALL - November 11 Hen- sall Legion held their annual Re- membrance Day banquet with a good attendance. Guest speaker Claus Breede gave a speech paying tribute to the thousands of Canadi- an soldiers who took part in the 1943-44 Italian campaign and de- scribing the horrendous conditions they experienced. The highest award the Legion be- stows on its members was given to Comrade Larry Uyl. the Meritori- ous Service medal was presented by Zone Commander Gordon De - Jong and Past Zone Commander John McDoanld. Uyl has been very active in the Branch for many years, and is certainly well deserv- ing of this honor. Other awards presented were Branch President Bryan Fink with his past officers medal and Padre Henry Annen with his past officers medal and Chaplain bar, and Larry Uyl with his Poppy Bar. Uyl has been Poppy Chairman for the Branch for 16 years. Eva Brown Zone Commander to the Ladies Auxiliary and Auxiliary President Iva Reid presented very faithful and long time Auxiliary member Donna Smale with the Life Membership pin. Congratula- tions are extended to all the recip- ients of awards. Ladies Auxiliary President Iva Reid presented the Branch with a cheque for $600. which was ac- cepted by President Bryan Fink. Wednesday evening the Legion held their November meeting. A donation of $25. was made to Town and Country Homemakers and $50. was donated to the Christ- mas Bureau. Service pins awarded EXETER - A dinner meeting was held to celebrate the Exeter Legion Ladies Auxiliary 45th an- niversary on October 28. Donations to the Lung Associa- tion and Huron County Child Abuse of $100 were given. Ser- vice pins were awarded to the fol- lowing: 10 years - Kathy Arbo and Marilyn Riley; 20 years - June Mavis; 25 years - Eleanor Blommaert; 35 years - Olive Fer- guson, Bernice Shipman and Shir- ley Wright; 40 years - Mary Hed- ley and Cora Wurm; 45 years - Gladys Bierling, Marion Frayne, Irene Harness, Elsie Jory, Verdun Lindenfield, Vera Mason, Dora McTavish, borothy Reynol 1s, Dorothy • Pfaff, Edna Simions, Eva Triebner, Grace Wurm and Annie Lawson. Plans for a spring yard and bake sale are in the planning stages. A District dart tournament will be held in April of 1997 with 40 teams coming in to play. Hospital study task force discusses restructuring options MITCHELL - The Hospital and Related Health Services Study Task Force met last Tuesday to review information gathered to -date (in- cluding feedback provided by the community through methods such as telephone surveys, hospital staff surveys, tabloid (Health Challenge) surveys and focus groups and to use that information to generate a "long list" of hospital restructuring options for initial consideration by the Task Force. The first step in generating a list of options was to identify potential service delivery models that could be provided in various communities within Huron and Perth. The types of service delivery organizations identified included: • "Secondary Hospital": This type of service facility would in- clude a concentration of specialty services (e.g., internal medicine, anaesthesia, surgery at a minimum) as well as inpatient acute beds, and a full-service 24-hour emergency service supported by physician and specialist "on call" §ystems. Clinics and allied health services (e.g., Physiotherapy, Occupational Ther- apy, Speech services, etc.) could be offered. • "Primary Hospital": A primary hospital could take three forms, but would have a base of physician ser- vices, primary care clinics and ther- apies, and 24-hour emergency ser- vices supported by on-site nurse(s) and physicians on-call. The forms of primary hospital considered in- volved: acute and chronic beds; chronic beds only; and no inpatient beds. All forms would be supported by urgent or "stat" laboratory and diagnostic capabilities. • "Primary Care Centre" (with ba- sic Emergency Services): This type of facility would take the form of a primary care group practice which includes physicians and other pri- mary care providers (nurse(s); ther- apist(s) working collaboratively. A range of clinics could be provided through the centre. Up to 24-hour emergency on-call coverage would be provided by the physician group. Following the development of the above, the Task Force identi- fied a number of principles which will guide option development. These include: • an identified need for acute sec- ondary services to be consolidated within two communities (one in Huron County and one in Perth County). • opportunities for improvement in hospital utilization (e.g., all hos- pitals operating at provincial stan- dards for appropriate lengths of stay) and administration and sup- port consolidation will form the base of all options. This is consis- tent with the feedback received from community consultations. • options must be reflective of the financial reality facing our hos- pitals over the next few years. Con- sidering the funding reductions an- ticipated over a three year period (beginning this year) and inflation, the system should be able to oper- ate with 20 per cent fewer "real" (includes the impact of inflation over time) dollars in Ministry of Health funding. Options developed to -date incor- porate a wide range of combina- tions within Huron Perth using the service models described (secon- dary Hospital; Primary Hospital; Primary Care Centre). Specific lo- cations for any of these service models were not identified at this point. The Study Task Force will meet again on November 21, to further discuss the development of restruc- turing options. Following the next meeting, information will be avail- able regarding three possible op- tions for restructuring hospital ser- vices within the district. 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