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Smaller hospitals expected to get
day surgery, clinics from SGH
By Brian Shypula
Stratford Beacon Herald Staff
The Huron Perth Healthcare Alliance is looking at moving
day surgery, some clinics and other routine health care to its
smaller hospitals in Seaforth, Clinton and St. Marys.
The move would free up operating room time at the strapped
Stratford General Hospital for more complicated surgeries in
which patients require a hospital stay to recover.
It would also put the smaller hospitals to better use.
Lynn Strugnell, vice-president of clinical services, said a
working group is in the early stages of exploring the site-
specific surgery.
"We obviously can't do everything everywhere," she said.
"What we're trying to do is look at efficiencies."
Outgoing Stratford General Hospital chief of staff Dr. Fred
Jewson, who is stepped down at the end of May, likes the idea.
"The Stratford site is working past its capacity. There are
wonderful clinicians there who could use more OR time,
provide more services to more people, if we could utilize the
facilities we have in the smaller sites. It's a matter of making a
sound business plan," he said.
"We do lots of surgery that comes in the morning and goes
home in the afternoon, and we can do that anywhere," he said.
Examples of the procedures that could be done in the
smaller hospitals include endoscopies, hernias, knee scopes,
breast biopsies, plastic surgery and cataracts.
"We have to make sure that we select things to be done that
we have critical mass, in other words you do enough patients
that you're efficient at it," Dr. Jewson said.
Ms. Strugnell said medical groups have been asked for
input.
Once the Alliance has more definite ideas of what it would
like to do at each hospital, she said, it will outline the plans for
public input.
Community support for the plans will be "very important,"
she said.
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Dick Burgess
to replace
Bob Broadfoot
on Alliance board
By Susan Hundertmark
Expositor Editor
Retired teacher and former
town councillor Dick
Burgess, of Seaforth has
been approved to replace
Bob Broadfoot on the Huron
Perth Healthcare
Alliance board.
A news release
from the Alliance •
board Monday made
the announcement
that Burgess, along
with current trustee
Bob Norris will be
representing the
Seaforth Community
Hospital catchment
area.
Burgess has served as both
volunteer and board member
of the Huron -Perth branch of
the Canadian Mental Health
Association and of the Huron
Hospice. He has also been a
member of the Seaforth
Community Hospital
foundation for the past
several years.
"Since my retirement from
teaching I • have been
involved in a number of
health care roles and I did
that deliberately. I am very
committed to this community
and I want to give back in
this way because health is a
particular interest," he says.
While Burgess says "it's
premature" to talk about any
specific issues or goals he
has as an Alliance board
member, he says he hopes to
"make use of whatever skills
and talents the governance
board found in me as an
effective member of the
Alliance board."
"I feel that Seaforth
Community Hospital has a
great deal to offer to the
Alliance as a strong, vital
and vibrant
hospital," he says.
The other
elected directors on
the 2005/06
Alliance board
include Gerald
Smith and Jane
Rowat, representing
the Clinton Public
Hospital catchment
area, Ron Bolton
and Leslie Showers,
representing the St. Marys
Memorial Hospital
catchment area and Tim
Cronsberry, Bruce
Schoenhals, Bob Guilliford,
Paul Howley and David Rae,
representing the Stratford
General Hospital catchment
area.
While the terms of Paul
Howley, David Rae, Bob
Broadfoot and Janet
Cameron were up for
renewal, only Cameron and
Broadfoot decided to step
down.
Those who applied to sit
on the Local Advisory
Committee for the Seaforth
hospital are being
interviewed this week and
are expected to be announced
at the Alliance's annual
meeting in Mitchell on June
23.
Police investigating
nine vandalism
reports in Seaforth
and Vanastra
lluron OPP
Huron OPP are investigating nine reports of vandalism that
occurred hetween May 29 and June 1 in the Vanastra and
Seaforth areas.
The first report involved a brick thrown through the
window of a black Dodge Neon, which was parked on
Toronto Boulevard in Vanastra on May 29.
A dark vehicle was seen fleeing the area at the time.
The next morning at 5:15 a.m., another resident from the
same street a couple of houses away found the back window
smashed out of his car.
Within the next two hours more calls were received from
people over vehicles damaged in parking lots on D& D Glass
located on Third Street, the parking lot of an apartment
building on Halifax Avenue and another residence on Toronto
Boulevard.
A gray 1993 Jeep Grand Cherokee had all the windows in
the vehicle smashed by bricks, a red Ford Explorer had
damages done to the driver's rear fender - again with a brick
found at the scene - and a red 2000 Cavalier had its roof
damaged by a brick.
As well, a table was thrown through the rear window of a
silver 1992 Volkswagen Jetta sometime overnight on East
William Street in Seaforth.
On June 1, officers were called to Hough Tire located on
London Road between Vanastra and Clinton.
A red 2004 Dodge Neon sitting in the parking lot, had a
brick thrown at the front bumper and grill smashing out a
section of the car.
Shortly after midnight a lone male driving a red SUV drove
across the front lawn of a residence on Toronto Boulevard
between the house and a tree and drove into the side of a car
at least four times before taking off. The vehicle was
extensively damaged and pushed into the side of a house
trailer.
Huron OPP say all of these incidents are related.
Anyone with information is asked to call the Huron OPP at
524-8314 or Crimestoppers at 1-800-222-8477(TIPS).