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Huron Perth Hospital and
Related Health Services Study -
Get Involved!
Our health care .System is changing! By January
31. 1,9977 the Huron Perth District Health
Council (HPDHC) must make recommendations
to the, 7ister of Health'regardng the
restruct ing of the hospital sy ern in Huron
and Pe h counties. The Hospt at and Related
Health Services Stisdy.Task FOrces which is a
.committee of the HPDHCs invites you to get
involved in the process and stay informed!
RePreientativesItornthe HODHP.ari.
available• until Dicember161 to speak with • ,
Iocal community grotipssisi organizations
041.4.700rvice.-olubk women's institutes,
a:iixillarsie4ParentsteaCher advisory groups,:
et4abOit.the•liospital:rettruCturing study.
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people value ".• • •
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No plans to close neardine hospital
by 'kir Fry
There Are rio ptans to
close the Kincardine hos-
plat, 1)r. Hugh Rose,
chair of the (key Bruce
District Health CottnciPs
WW1 hospital restruc-
turing committee said
last Wednesday after-
noon.
Dr. Rose was address
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Mg Kincardine Mayor
Charlie Mann, the first of
14 people allowd‘to
address the committee at
the DHC's Kincardine
meeting, held at the
Davidson Centre Oct. 2
We know there has to
be changes in beds but
there are no plans to
reduce acute care beds in
Kincardine," Dr. Rose
said. .
This is in contrast to
one of the committee's
proposals to turn .the
Kincardine hospital into
a primary health centre,
medical clinics with
• emergency centres. The
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would have r ureyelit -race h 0 -
p
110 beth irk sorry h [tient
Patientsk
j area, about 0
needing hos- "r percent of the
pitaliattion would be population of Grey and
transported to a hospital Bruce counties.
either in Owen Sound or "And we know how
Walkerton/Hanover. long it takes to drive to
Dr. Rose said the coat- Hanover or Walkerton."
mittee was aware of the Dr. Rose saki the corn
presence of the Bruce mittee knows all these
NuclearPower factors have to be taken
Developme.nt (BNPD) into consideration before
and the problems posed a final hospital and
by having the world's health -care restructuring
largest nuclear facility in report can be written.
the area, "We are not a govem.
"We need to have ment appointed body and
something in the area to we are not the restmetur.
look after any accidents."' in g commission. We have
He said the Pornmittee no control over what the
was also aware of the restructuring commission
industrial complex at the does."
Bruce Energy Centre -as Dr. Rose said' the coin
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well as the isolation of mittee knows it must
Kincardine when work with 18 percent less
Highway 21 is closed in Money in hospitals' bud
the winter. gets and that 150 'acute
"We are also aware of care beds have to go.
the 16,000 people in the "if we don't do this,
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••kalrt a 00derIch . water Color artist,' during last .weekend's .Huron'
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color' arid' pen sketches, (Brad VO0041:fishoto) • • • • I .
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they rthe
ILb,lillniore, a
Kincardine resident who
had a heart attack four
years ago said it wa,s
thanks to Kincardine's
acute care beds and the
hospital's qualified staff
that she was here today.
She said Owen Sound
hospital wouldn't take
her, as she wasn't stable.
She wondered what
her chances were of sur-
viving another heart
attack, if there were no
beds oin Kincardineand
Owen Sotind again
refused to take her. .
Eric Hanna, the cont.
mitiee's consultant, said
the issue of how to assure
access to Owen Sound's
hospital is one that will
:be addressed. ,
Hospital unit costs low*
Steve Watson, chair
of the Kincardine hospi-
tal board said of 53 small
hospitals in Ontario, only
10 have achieved lower
unit costs than
Kincardine.
He pointed out the
VON, Home Care, Bruce
Shoreline Family.
Services as well as spe-
cialty clinics are already
at the hospital, proving
the hospieal 'board sup- •
ports• the concept of co-
ordinated health care set.
Specialists coming to
Kincardine saves local
residents significanftrav-
'el' cogs with only nomi-
nal costs to the hospital,
Watson said:
He suggested moving
patients from lower cost,
local facilities, to higher ,
cost, centralized facilities
doesn't make sense.
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Doctors need right tools
Kincardine family
physician Dr. Rick Mann
said health care profes-
sionals can provide
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