Huron Expositor, 2006-07-19, Page 3News
The Huron Expositor • July 19, 2006 2006 Page 3
Seaforth will continue with community-Ied
FHT while Clinton's FHT will be doctor -led
From Page 1
business plan to the Ministry of Health at
, the end of May, community members in
Seaforth sent their own amendment to the
plan.
The amendment expressed the concern
that the original proposal for the
Seaforth FHT be followed, rec-
ommending Clinton be consid-
ered a "stand-alone physician -led
FHT."
"Clinton as a stand-alone
physician -led FHT appears to
this amendment to be sufficient
and appropriate, even though its
physicians apparently did not
meet timing limits for an appli-
cation as a physician -led FHT as
did other centres in Huron
County and elsewhere. We leave
it to the Ministry to consider
making an exception to its rul-
ings in this regard," said the _-
amendment. -amendment.
"That's exactly as we'd recommended,"
said Huron East. economic development
officer Ralph Laviolette, in response to the
news of two separate FHTs in Seaforth
and Clinton.
Dr. Dan Rooyakkers said he's glad to see
a resolution to the work of the past few
years planning into the FHT.
"It's a very easy way to allow two groups
to pursue two distinct types of gover-
nance," he said Monday of the plan to pur-
sue two separate FHTs.
"Seaforth always wanted it to be commu-
nity -driven and it was a question of how
the Clinton site was going to be incorpo-
rated into that model," he said.
Rooyakkers said that with a family
health network (FHN) already in place in
Clinton, Clinton doctors were more com-
fortable with a doctor -led FHT.
In a doctor -led FHT, three physicians are
necessary to begin the team, whereas in a
community -led FHT, only one physician is
necessary.
"The cFHT (commu-
nity -led fami-
ly health
team) in
Seaforth as
originally
described in
the approved
concept plan -
information
request form,
is ready and
able to begin
operation
without fur-
ther delay
with a mini-
mum of investment, with
ample skills sets, profession-
als, volunteers and other per-
sonnel and with the financial
backing and involvement of
the Seaforth community avail-
able," said the amendment.
Rooyakkers is currently the
lead doctor for the Seaforth
FHT and he said it will be
determined -over the summer
how many other Seaforth doc-
tors want to get involved in
the FHT.
He said the FHT should be
up and running sometime
over the next three to six
two groups to
pursue two
distinct
types of f
governance,'--
Seaforth's
Dr. Dan Rooyakkers
•
Seaforth shopkeeper helps
Huron OPP catch thieves
Susan H u n d e r t m a
Danica McNichol knew something
just wasn't right last Wednesday
afternoon as two customers kept
drawing her further and further to
the back of her store as their com-
panion stayed up front.
'When they left Nifty Korners on
Seaforth's Main Street, raced to
their car and sped from town, she
decided she'd better jot down the
`licence plate number from their car.
And, moments later, she noticed a
laptop computer and digital camera,
valued at a total of $1,200, were
missing from a display case at the
front of the store and called the
police.
"I wondered if they'd stolen some-
thing from someone but when I took
the licence down, I didn't think it
was me. Something just didn't feel
right," she says.
Forty-five minutes later, the
Huron OPP had in Clinton appre-
hended three people, two men, ages
24 and 18 of Mississauga and
Etobicoke and a 16 -year-old young
woman, also from Etobicoke.
Half an hour earlier at 21 p.m. on
July 12, Huron OPP were called by
an employee of Clinton Radar Auto
Parts in Mitchell about three people
suspected of stealing a quantity of
tools, worth less than $1,000.
The employee was also able to
provide a licence plate number and
the direction they were last seen
going towards Seaforth.
All three are scheduled to appear
in court in Goderich on Sept. 14
where they will face two counts each
of possession of stolen property
obtained by crime under $5,000
each.
months.
"We'll be looking for people to form a
board and we'll see how the summer plays
out in terms of doctor population," said
Rooyakkers.
"There's light at the end of the tunnel
now," he said.
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