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By Shelley McPhee
Architects Kyles, Kyles and Garrett of Stratford and
contractor John Refflinghaus of Goderich were in charge
of making the Clinton hospital dream a reality, of con-
structing the new out patient, admitting and emergency
Construction on the wing began in April, 1982 and the
hospital departments moved into their new quarters by
December of last year.
The wing features a new admitting area, consulation
room and waiting area, physiotherapy and X-ray
de partrnents.
A modern ambulance -emergency entrance and a
centrally located nurses' station overlook four examining
rooms.
The emergency examining rooms include a Fracture
Room, used for minor surgery. It is equipped with
anesthetic equipment and a stop clock for emergency
cardiac arrests.
A nearby Trauma Room, holding vital equipment, is
prepared for major medical emergencies, like the
treatment of car accident victims. One of the hospital's
two Cardiac Monitor Defibrillators and crash carts is
station ,, here.
Two smaller examining rooms re used for minor
medicine and are also equi, •;ed for emergencies. As well
the new wing has additional storage sce, including a
sterile storage room.
Better services
The emergency wing and treatment rooms are used on a
daily basis by doctors and visiting specialists. The
hospital provides the services of six general practitioners,
including a specialist in internal !medicine, two visiting
general surgeons, an ear, nose and throat specialist, an
orthopedic surgeon, pediatrician, pathologist, a con-
sultant in thoriac and cardiovascular disease, a speech
therapist, visiting dietician and radiologist.
The local hospital provides services to patients that
were once only available at larger hospitals in London and
Stratford.
The new . s encY wing is a vast improvement over
the former dep ent that was located in the north end
of the hospital.
The old emergency department had two small
examining rooms, one treatment room and very little
storage space.
More room
Emergency nurse Bette Dalzell explained, "In the old
department there simply wasn't enough room. Often
emergency patients ended up in the hallway. In the old
department only one doctor could do elective medicine,
now three or four can work at the same e�"nt complete
The old emergency depart.
renovations. It now houses the administrator and director
of nursing offices. It features a n nference room,
library and medical records department.
Hospital Administrator Doug Coventry noted that it is
first time since 1975 that the medical records department
has had a permanent home. The department was "tem-
porarily"
temporarily" moved to the former nurses' residence eight
years ago and was only re -located to its new home two
months ago. deal of
Setting up the new departments required a great
hard work and patience among the hospital , but but
Coventry noted, "There were slight
we knew the end result would be worth waiting for."
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