Times Advocate, 1996-10-09, Page 3Exeter volunteer firefighters remove the smoldering pieces of insulation from beneath a mo-
bile home that caught fire on Wednesday.
Mobile home saved from burning
Park manager and local resident contain blaze for firefighters
EXETER - The park manager
and a resident of the Riverview Es-
tates worked with the Exeter Fire
Department to prevent a small fire
from engulfing a mobile home on
Kalisch Avenue on Wednesday.
Gary Hartman and Gerry Kil-
bourne noticed smoke coming from
beneath the home of Martin An-
drews around 2 p.m. and called the
fire department. Hartman went in to
get Andrews, who was unaware of
the fire, out of the building and
then proceeded to rip the skirt off
from around the mobile home so he
and Kilbourne could get at the
smoldering blaze with garden hos-
es.
"If they hadn't done that it would
have been a lot worse," said Exeter
Fire Chief John Morgan who cred-
its their quick thinking for saving
the home.
At one point a garden hose Hart-
man was using was burned by the
fire and he said he will also need a
new pair of shoes. But he was glad
no one was hurt and damage to the
home was kept to a minimum.
Morgan said the fire started after
a heating cable designed to keep
the plumbing from freezing mal-
functioned, igniting the insulation
around it. Hartman estimates the
1982 Glendale Manufactured Mo-
bile Home sustained $3,500 in
structural damage, however, there
was little smoke damage and An-
drews was able to sleep there the
same night.
According to Hartman, this was
the first fire in the Riverview Es-
tates (mobile home park for sen-
iors) he has witnessed in the 21
years as park manager.
Future of South Huron District Hospital
is part of local restructuring study
EXETER- January 31 is a day all hospitals in Huron
and Perth Counties have marked on their calendars.
It's a day that could bring recommendations which
may alter the way some medical services are delivered.
The local District Health Council recently received
funding from the Ministry of Health to complete a
study for the Huron Perth district. The Ministry of
Health has indicated the study must be completed bxx
the end of January so that hospitals ean`'iikbt td
DHC recommendations into their operating plans for
the next fiscal year. South Huron Hospital, along with
the seven other hospitals in Huron Perth, is participat-
ing in the study process.
The DHC task force overseeing the study includes
local volunteers from the community and hospital sec-
tor.
"As the study is moving forward very quickly, it will
be important that Huron Perth residents participate in
the opportunities for input that are made available to
them", said DHC Task Force Chair, Janet Hook.
DHC staff will be working with a sub -committee of
the task force to make sure that opportunities for local
input are a' ailable throughout the study. Opportunities
for community input will include random telephone
surveys, focus groups, requests for written submis-
sions, and open house.
The study task force has acknowledged quality
health care, access to, and coordination of service are
the key components that must be included in the Hu-
ron Perth hospital system. "All possible options, such
as hospital role changes, merges and closures will be
considered by the task force as it seeks ways to stream-
line the hospital system," said DHC council executive
director, Fraser Bell.
A team from Price Waterhouse Management Consul-
tants has been hired to work closely with HPDHC staff
to provide technical assistance to the study task force.
The HPDHC, along with the study task force, is com-
mitted to ensuring recommendations to the Minister of
Health will result in a hospital system that best meets
the health care needs of Huron Perth residents, despite
impending cutbacks to local hospitals. For more infor-
mation about the study process and how you can get
involved, please contact the Huron Perth District
Health Council at 348-4498.
Vision statement
The Task Force
The Hospital and Related Health Services Study
Task Force is a committee of the Huron Perth District
Health Council (HPDHC). The task force includes 19
volunteers who live and/or wort in the Huron Perth
District. The task force members bring a broad mix of
perspective to the table, including: the general public;
hospital workers; hospital board members; physicians;
community health and social service workers; labor
unions; and business.
The mission
The task force will identify how our hospital system
should be structured to best meet the future health care
needs of those living in Huron Perth and surrounding
areas.
The tase force is committed to maintaining high
quality care. By working with residents and service
providers of Huron Perth, it will recommend improve-
ments to (ht. current hospital system. These improve-
ments will assist with the financial and other pressures
that our hospitals face.
The task force will consider all possible options,
with no preconceived solutions. The solutions will be
based oh available health information, and focused on
the health needs of Huron Perth residents.
The ridoit
The task force will strive to develop recommends -
dons for a hospital system that provides needed servic-
es 10 residents in a sustainable and Rnrmeially respon-
sible manner. Quality, access and coordination are key
components of the system.
Quality: High quality care that focuses on patients'
needs will be provided.
Access: Necessary health care will be available to
Huron Perth residents. Accessibility will be subject to
standards appropriate to the district.
Coordination: An optimal level of coordination will •
Ns promoted within the hospital system. Appropriate
4rationships will be -maintained and enhant ed With r •
fated health care services in the community and highly
specialized services in larger centres.
Study objectives
Quality
Through its recommendations, the task force will
strive to ensure:
• that patients are the primary focus and are active
participants in their health care;
• that programs delivered have the support of an ap-
propriate level of medical and other professional ex-
pertise;
• that appropriate communication systems are in
place at all levels. (Systems must be monitored for ef-
fectiveness and include provisions for addressing com-
munication gaps or breakdowns.); and
• the attraction and retention of medical and other
professional expertise within South Perth.
In order to achieve the above, the task force will:
• identity service needs;
• ensure adequate resources (human, financial,
equipment and facilities) to maintain high quality pa-
tient -focused care
• work with professionals to establish and apply
guidelines for program variability; and
• develop a comprehensive human resources for the
Huron Perth hospital system.
Access
Through its recommendations, the task force will
strive to ensure that;
• sufficient basic medical care is available to patients
in all areas of the district;
• necessary specialized health services are available
within the district;
• high level services not provided or not viable with-
in the district remain accessible to patients from Huron
Perth;
• adequate 24-hour emergency care is provided with-
in the district; and
• access is provided to related health services provid-
ed by organizations other than hospitals.
In order to achieve the above the task force will
identify;
• health services now available;
• health services unavailable to all or some persons
in the district;
• methods of providing accessible 24-hour emergen-
cy care within the district;
• desirable or necessary levels of hospital use;
• appropriate lengths for waiting lists, travel and
waiting times for hospital services; and
• transportation issue* that affect access.
Coordination
Through its recommendations, the task force will
stove to:
• reduce waste and unnecessary duplication;
• ensure appropriate linkages among:
• care providers within in Huron Perth
• levels of care (basic. specialized, and high level);
• types of true (acute chronic, etc.); and
• related services provided in and out of hospital.
In order to achieve the above, the tack force will:
• ideMlfy unnecessary duplication and overlap in ser-
vices; and
• identify relevant models that promote/adulate co-
otdhwdoo of hospital lad related health sirvices.
Times -Advocate, October 9, 1996
Page 3
Grand Bend says amalgamation
final draft report incomplete
By Heather Mir
T -A Reporter
GRAND BEND - "I think the
work of the consultant is quite in-
complete," said Councillor Bob
Mann at Monday night's meeting.
This is the message Mayor Cam
Ivey will take to next Thursday
night's South Huron Amalgama-
tion Committee meeting following
the release of a "final draft" of the
restructuring study completed by
KPMG.
Council discussed the amalgama-
tion study and strongly agreed the
report, in its current form, is not
acceptable. The report doesn't ad-
dress two of four possible sce-
narios the consultants were in-
structed to investigate. These
include the possibility of the new-
ly -amalgamated municipality re-
maining i'n both Huron and Lamb -
ton Counties and the option of
creating a one -tier level of govern-
ment.
"I want to have the information
Correction
EXETER - The Christian Reform
Church singers entertained on Sep-
tember 9th for the Exeter dining
program for seniors on September 9
with some good old gospel songs
which all enjoyed.
The Times Advocate apologizes
for the error.
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in hand to be able to say yes, this is
the best option," said Mann.
KPMG reported it dismissed the
study of the municipal-
ity remaining in two
counties because of an
amendment to Bin 26
that disallows this op-
tion. However, council
members believe the
consultants should
have followed the
terms laid out in the
call for proposals.
KMPG also left out the
one -tier option because consultants
felt this is a political decision that
"Ith
wro
have
.the
the p
should occur once a new council
has been formed.
Mann suggested if KPMG pro-
vides information re-
garding all the op-
tions, the committee
could have enough
"ammunition" to
take to the ministry
in order to find in-
itiate a change in the
regulations.
"I think they are
dead wrong. they
have not met the
terms of the proposal," he said.
ink they
are dead
ng, they
not met
terms of
roposal. "
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