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Home My WebLink AboutTimes Advocate, 1995-03-01, Page 3• Air conditioning • Automatic transmission • 3.0 L V6 engine • 7 passenger seating • Front wheel drive • Roof rack 1 CE DURING , tor isnia J • AM/FM stereo • Power liftgate release GOLDKeyr 17988* or $299 Including $150 facto,y rebate Over 30 months Times -Advocate, March 1, 1995 Page 3 County health care to be joined Huron and Perth long term health care will amalgamate By Fred Groves T -A staff MITCHELL - The Huron and Perth long term health care committees will continue to operate separately for at least another year. However, under guidance from the newly created Huron -Perth District Health Council, the two separate groups will become one and fall under the direction of the DHC by Feb- ruary 1996. "I think it's important they know they will be a standing committee of the DHC," said Deb Selkirk during Thursday's DHC regular meet- ing held in Mitchell. At the meeting, it was originally suggested that the two long term committees work to- gether towards amalgamation for September 30. "I have some concerns about the deadline," said Selkirk. "I don't think they'd be comfort- able with that. I suggest a year." George Ryley agreed, stating, "these groups with their history...I feel September is to short a time. They are fact-finding and opinion mak- ing." Selkirk added that while timelines are im- portant in working towards the amalgamation, the DHC must be sensitive towards the two long term committees. The chairmen of the two committees wiU be invited to the next DHC meeting which will be held March 23. "I think that's a wise thing to do and a polite thing to do," said DHC chairman Jeff Wilbee. No permanent site yet: While the Huron - Perth DHC has temporary offices in Mitchell. the site selection committee is still pondering where the permanent location will be. "We will be contacting everyone who ex- pressed an interest formally and informally," said Diane Aitken of the site selection com- mittee. "We already had some criteria and we'll firm that up at the next meeting." Part of the new DHC's job is to assist the eight hospitals which are in the counties of Huron and Perth in their future hospital re- structuring and operating plans. Fraser Bell, the DHC's executive director said all the hospitals were expected to have their operating plans into him by Friday and that all eight administrators will sit down and review them together. Shared services and resources is the big con- cern and one thing the DHC is trying to get from the Ministry of Health for its hospitals is an Magnetic Resonance Imaging machine which is diagnostic equipment used by doc- tors. There are only two MRI's available for Southern Ontario and several DHC's in the province are putting in their pitches as to why they should have one. "We don't have funds to put one in each county," said Dr. Ken Rodney of Seaforth, a member of the DHC. Looking ahead: The counties of Huron and Perth are the last in Ontario to form a DHC. It's been a few years in the making and now, the council has to bring all health groups in the two counties under its wing. That could take a while. Besides recently hiring Bell who is assisting in finding a permanent location for the DHC, seeking to hire a long term care planner and an administrative assistant, the DHC is looking to create a good image to the public. "Part of what we do is involve our com- munity," said Wilbee. He added that when someone is representing the DHC, "they are not representing a county, a community or an institution but rather the whole district." Mental health was also an item on Thurs- day's agenda and Terry Fadelle said that by mid-March, the regional health planner will be expecting a report from the Huron -Perth DHC. YOUR LOCAL CHRYSLER DEALER IS CELEBRATING CHRYSLER VALUE. DAYS NOW GET C re 1 • 0 1995 Dodge Caravan/Plymouth Voyager 24T Package includes: • Standard front dual air bags • Standard side impact beams 411 Dodge Dodge Trucls5 ** per month :i Dodge Trucks unding for emergency room doctors closer? MITCHELL - Rural hospitals in Ontario could be getting funding from the Ministry of Health to help pay for fees to doctors for staff- ing the emergency rooms. Thursday night at the Huron -Perth District Health Council meet- ing in Mitchell, Terry Fadelle, the Chief Executive Officer of the St. Marys Memorial Hospital said the ministry is working on it. "The answer we get is that the minister (Ruth Grier) has appointed a fact -finder. He'll make a report by the end of February," said Fa - delle. While Fadelle noted that hospitals are supportive of paying phy- sicians appropriately, he said, "we don't feel it should come out of hospital budgets." He gave a presentation to the DHC on hospital funding and la- beled it the past, the present and future or the good, the bad and the ugly. Hospital budgets are divided between operating and capital costs and Fadelle said 70 to 90 percent of operating budgets come from the Ministry of Health. Non -Canadians, when visiting our country are usually billed more for health coverage at a hospital than Canadians. "When a foreigner comes to a hospital and they test positive for Blue Cross or other insurance, they will typically be billed a lot higher than the pier diem rate," said Fadelle. Hospitals have been restructuring, downsizing and even laying off employees, and Fadelle said to look for more of this in the future. "If you're cutting back on hospital budgets, you're cutting back on people. The health care system is not finished downsizing. There wilt be further cuts." Catholic high school exceeds enrollment expectations CLINTON - The new Catholic separate high school slated to open in September in Clinton has exceed enrollment expectations. Ray Controis, who will be princi- pal of the new school, said they ex- pected approximately 80 students for grade nine and to date have 120 registered. The separate school board asks that all students register by the end of this week to allow fa- culty preparations to be made. St. Anne's will be offering french immersion starting at the grad nine level as well as regular stream education. The feeder school areas include Wingham, Mount Carmel, Goderich, Kingsbtidge and Sea - forth and the high school has an open access policy, they don't turn anyone away. The new high school may draw students away from the Huron Board of Education because of the french immersion program and what some parents think will be a better student -teacher ratio. 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