The Citizen, 2015-09-10, Page 15THE CITIZEN, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 2015. PAGE 15.
Huron County Council is currently
in the midst of considering a grant to
the Huron Hospice Palliative Care
Steering Committee.
Two representatives from the
committee spoke to council at its
Sept. 2 meeting, detailing the
committee’s history, its goals and
what it needed from the county to
begin the consultation process.
Kathy O’Reilly and Karen Reiger,
co-chairs of the committee, spoke to
council, saying that at the first
meeting of the committee, which
was held in Clinton, they found there
to be a great interest in the need for
palliative care in Huron County,
where there are currently no
palliative care beds. Over 100
people, including several
councillors, attended the meeting,
O’Reilly said.
The committee held its first
meeting in April, where a mission
statement and its vision were crafted
by committee members and now
members are hoping to begin the
public consultation process, for
which the committee was asking for
$3,000 from the county.
After the public consultation
process, O’Reilly said, the
committee would make
recommendations to the county in
regards to palliative care and how it
could be administered.
The goal, she said, is to create a
model that isn’t based on any other
models, but to find something that
will work specifically for Huron
County.
They have looked at the Grey-
Bruce model as an example that may
lead them on the right path, O’Reilly
said, but that was really just a
starting point of reference in the
process.
O’Reilly explained the concept of
palliative care to councillors, saying
that the scope of care goes much
farther than people actually realize.
Palliative care begins when someone
receives diagnosis that declares them
terminal and then continues through
after a person’s death, assisting
family members and friends as much
as possible.
“Death is a tough issue to discuss,
even at the healthcare level,”
O’Reilly said, adding that much of
healthcare is focused on making
patients better, rather than focusing
on death in cases where it is
inevitable.
Currently, she said, in Huron
County there is no referral process at
the time of a diagnosis and that
many healthcare facilities provide
palliative care by “scrambling at the
end” rather than there being a
framework for a “steady continuum
of care” in place.
North Huron Reeve Neil Vincent
was curious about the fear of
discussing death. He said that he had
a friend who was fighting cancer and
until that person was bed-ridden,
only a handful of people had been
told about the diagnosis. He asked
O’Reilly if this level of secrecy and
fear were common in diagnoses such
as terminal cancer.
She said it’s difficult to break
down the walls of someone’s privacy
if they want to keep a diagnosis
private, but that palliative care would
do all that it could to help an
individual facing such a diagnosis, if
that person was willing to accept the
help.
Huron East Mayor Bernie
MacLellan said that he certainly
wasn’t against the concept of
palliative care. In fact, he said, he
had seen it in action recently with a
friend who received a tremendous
level of palliative care service in
London.
With a dedicated section of the
hospital, along with a dedicated
employee force, would a larger city
centre in London not be better
positioned to administer palliative
care? MacLellan asked. He also
wasn’t sure that the county would
have the infrastructure to
accommodate a facility, or the
need.
As well, he said if care needed
to be better at local hospitals,
perhaps the problem is province-
wide and it shouldn’t be individual
counties structuring their own
palliative care units, but a sweeping
reform across all of Ontario.
O’Reilly said that, in a way, there
are changes being made across the
province, as the committee was
struck through the Local Health
Integration Network (LHIN) and
then funds are administered by the
LHIN from the province.
The challenge, she said, is to keep
the focus on care close to home in
smaller city centres in Huron
County. The LHIN, she said, is great
for bigger cities like London or
Woodstock, but smaller centres like
Huron County have a hard time
convincing those from the LHIN to
pay any attention to Huron County.
It is a problem, O’Reilly says, that
she is “pushing back on” in the
hopes that people at higher levels
hear her concerns.
Council instructed staff to prepare
a report on the funding request and
present it to council at a future
meeting, as per the county’s grant
policy.
County considering grant to palliative care group
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