The Citizen, 1992-12-02, Page 18In recovery
Blyth Councillor Shirley Fyfe and Chairman of the Clinton Public Hospital Board, Michael
Falconer, inspect the hospital's new recovery room which is part of the brand new surgical
day care unit the hospital officially opened Saturday afternoon. Besides the surgical unit, the
hospital also opened a renovated long-term care wing.
Clinton Hosp,
opens 2 new
facilities
By Lisa Boonstoppel-Pot
Clinton Public Hospital had a
double celebration Saturday to offi
cially open the hospital's new surgi
cal day care and long-term care
units.
The hospital has been under ren
ovation since January of this year
to create a larger surgical unit on
the hospital's second floor, the for
mer chronic care wing. In turn, the
chronic care unit was moved to the
former surgical unit on the first
floor.
"Our operating room facilities
were getting outdated and we knew
we had to make changes," stated
Michael Falconer, chair of the hos
pital board.
Changes began in April, 1990
when they submitted the project
plan to the Ministry of Health and-
ended in November.
"The surgical day care unit is
now three times as large," revealed
Allan Halls, the hospital’s executive
director. "We had a really cramped
facility before with only one oper
ating room and one small recovery
room."
Now the hospital boasts two
operating rooms, a larger recovery
room which can hold three patients
and a new daycare room where
patients are admitted prior to
surgery and returned after they've
finished their active recovery stage.
It can hold five patients.
The new wing relieves pressure
on the emergency department
which had previously undertaken
small surgical duties such as
endoscopys (internal examinations)
because there wasn't enough space
in the surgical rooms.
"The facilities in the emergency
room weren't good for this because
there was no recovery room and
often the patients would be recov
ering in the hall," admitted Mr.
Halls.
The long-term care wing is also
improved. Though it has been
reduced slightly from 14 beds to 10
beds, patients have a larger,
brighter facility with a special
lounging room which features an
outside deck.
In his congratulatory remarks at
the opening, Huron-Perth MPP
Paul Klopp told the crowd "I espe
cially like this area where a person
can go and relax and have the
opportunity to sit outside and listen
to the neighborhood."
He was present on behalf of the
Ministry of Health who gave the
hospital a grant of $498,000
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THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2,1992. PAGE 19.
Sale features farm toys
The Mid-Western Ontario Show
and Sale is being held Dec. 5 and 6
in Seaforth.
The event,which is sponsored by
the Seaforth Agricultural Society
and the Van Egmond Foundation,'
features farm toys, dolls and crafts.
There are more than 175
exhibitors at the show housed in
four buildings—the Agricultural
building, the fair ground buildings
and the Seaforth High School.
Free rides are provided to all
Library to host
craft workshop
A Christmas craft workshop will
be held at the Blyth Branch library
Dec. 3 at 7:30 p.m.
Lynn Bannerman, owner of the
Brick Wall in Blyth, will teach par
ticipants how to make Christmas
centerpieces.
Space is limited so preregistering
is required. Cost of the program is
$20 to cover the cost of centerpiece
materials.
shows. There is also hot food avail
able and free skating on Sunday
from 12-3.
Admission is $3 for adults and
children under 10 are free.
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