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Bluewater Area Family Health Team presents clinic expansion plans
Valerie Gillies
Clinton News Record
The Bluewater and Area
FamilyHealth Team (BAFHT)
held a public meeting at the
Zurich Community Centre on
March 10 to present the plans
for the expansion of the
BAFHT clinic located at 43
Main Street, Zurich. Con-
struction is set to begin April
4, 2016.
Steve Haberer, Co-chair-
man of the Building Commit-
tee welcomed everyone and
expressed his appreciation at
seeing so many members of
the board, members of the
health team and the public in
attendance.
Haberer stated that it was
ten years ago that the com-
munity had held a similar
meeting to raise the $200,000
to build the existing Bluewa-
ter clinic to service the com-
munity in health care. He
added, "Tonight we want to
complete the clinic and have
come back to the community
asking for $600,000 for
expansion"
The Bluewater clinic is
community -sponsored
which means that it is owned
by the community, not the
government, doctors, prov-
ince or anyone else. The only
funding that is received to run
it is Ministry of Health and
Long -Term Care (MOH)
funding and what is raised by
the community. The board of
the facility asked the MOH to
evaluate the current clinic in
accordance with the area and
population that it serves. The
MOH agreed that it is under-
sized and agreed to give
BAFHT $1.5 million for
expansion.
Haberer indicated that the
Mayor of Bluewater, council
and staff have beenveryhelp-
ful in many ways, not only
financially, but with advice
and in facilitating the paper-
work involved. Many archi-
tectural and design teams
were interviewed, but Brad
Skinner of Skinner and Skin-
ner Architects and Nadia
Kuhni of Design Matrix stood
out above the rest.
Mayor Hessel spoke next
beginning with, "It takes a
community to build a com-
munity." He pointed out that
the clinic expansion is a
regional project, not just a
Zurich or Bluewater one.
Being a community -spon-
sored clinic it has an organic
approach. Completion of the
expansion will put Zurich on
a new page as the hub of
Bluewater for health care.
Brad Skinner has designed
many buildings in the area,
including the library which is
across the road from the
clinic. Skinner stated, "This is
a special project as it is across
from a library that I designed
which makes me proud. It is
Brad Skinner (left), President of Skinner and Skinner Architects
and Nadia Kuhni (right), interior designer at Design Matrix
presented their plans for the expansion of the Bluewater Area
Family Health Team clinic at the March 10 meeting held at the
Zurich Community Centre.
Valerie Gillies Photos Clinton News Record
Representatives of the Bluewater Area Family Health Team Building Committee spoke at the
public meeting held March 10 in the Zurich Community Centre to unveil the plans for expansion.
From left: Bill Archibald, Chairman of the Finance Committee, Ric Grise, Chairman of the Building
Committee, Dr. Deb Josephson, lead physician of the Family Health Team, Steve Haberer, Co-
chair of the Health Centre.
an exciting project" Skinner
remarked that most would
have decided to just tear
down the existing clinic and
start from scratch. However, it
was decided in Bluewater's
case to take the sustainable
approach which maintains
the existing building. This
approach provides both chal-
lenges and opportunities.
Skinner took into account
what could be worked with
without having the old and
new facilities fighting, there-
fore transforming it into "one
nice new building"
As nature and healing go
together, it was decided to
have the new building react to
natural light and nature.
There are windows every-
where around the perimeter
to give each room natural
light, as well as several sky-
lights for other areas. Skinner
worked with a landscape
architect and the interior
designer to achieve flow right
from the beginning of the
planning stage.
It will take a year to com-
plete the expansion as it will
be accomplished in two
phases. First, the new addi-
tion will be completed while
the existing clinic continues
to operate. In the second
phase, everything in the
existing clinic will be relo-
cated to the new addition to
enable the repairs and reno-
vations to be done to the
existing building.
Nadia Kuhni expressed
her excitement at being
invited to join the design
team. Her specialty is
designing health care facili-
ties. She explained that the
new BAFHT clinic "is
designed to be people -cen-
tred, patient -centred and
community -centred. There-
fore it is a wellness centre
that addresses emotional
and physical health and also
includes a community room
for classes:'
Kuhni stated that the
design for the clinic "has
taken aleap from usual health
centres as there are family
exam rooms for all ages and
the privacy aspect has been
addressed in many areas such
as exam rooms, the waiting
room and reception area."
Attention to soundproofing,
flow and the use of desig-
nated areas are key compo-
nents of the design. The mate-
rials used were chosen to be
pleasant and not to look insti-
tutional and sterile.
Dr. Josephson, lead physi-
cian of the Family Health
Team, stated that the goal of
the team in providing primary
care is to have medical care
delivered with the patients
and the community coming
first. It is a team -based
approach. Currently there are
three physicians, with a fourth
to be recruited for later this
year. There is a Nurse Practi-
tioner, Physician Assistant,
Registered Nurse, Social
Worker, a casual Registered
Nurse Practitioner and the
extra staff needed to help at
the front desk, which is critical
to the function of the clinic.
Once the expansion is com-
pleted the MOH has
approved funding to add a
dietician, a mental health
worker and a health
promoter.
Josephson indicated that
the staff is excited to be able to
expand and add services and
programs to the existing ones.
The goal is to attract more
specialists and programs to
give the surrounding com-
munities "access to quality
medical care today and into
the future:'
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