Times Advocate, 1999-06-16, Page 4Hospital hires new physiotherapist
By Scott Nixon
TIKES -ADVOCATE STAFF
EXETER -- Better
health care and a lighter
workload for staff are
two results of the hiring
of a new physiotherapist
at the South Huron Hos-
pital, according to the
hospital's director of
physiotherapy.
lan McCrae said until
the hospital hired Lon-
don native and former
Lucan resident Krista
Geiger in May, the hos-
pital had gone 4 1/2
years without a staff
physiotherapist due to
budget cutbacks.
"It was just over-
whelming," McCrae said
of being the only physio-
therapist at the hospital.
In audition to the
heavy workload, McCrae
said at one point there
was a waiting list of six
months for care. The
physiotherapy de-
partment was also forced
to close when McCrae
would go on vacation.
Now it can stay open, he
said.
He said Geiger's hiring
will mean shorter wait-
ing periods and give him-
self and Geiger more
time to spend with each
patient.
Geiger, 23, studied at
the University of Western
Ontario for five years.
She said her major inter-
ests are spot therapy
and orthopedics 414 first
became interested In the
subject in high scht
Oakridge Secondary
School is London.
South Huron Hospital
site administrator Janice
Cosgrove admitted many
people in the community
had been concerned
about tl . hospital's
physiothera1 y de-
partment because they
couldn't get "timely ac-
cess" to care.
She said the hospital
has known for years that
it was a problem but it
was a question of getting
the proper funds to im-
prove the department.
That funding came
with a onesper cent in-
crease from the province
in the hospital's base
budget. The hospital also
reallocated some other
money in its budget to
put towards paying for a
new physic therapist.
Even with the addi-
tional funding from the
province, Cosgrove said
the hospital is still telling
the Ministry of Health it
is having problems bal-
ancing its budget.
Cosgrove said while
the position wasn't ad-
vertised, the hospital
was receiving applica-
tions from physio-
therapists anyway, be-
cause this is the time of
year when recent gradu-
ates are looking for jobs.
Geiger was a good
choice, . Cosgrove said,
because she worked for
the hospital on a work
pcement in January.
"I'm really pleased
then we were able to
Standing with
South Huron's
director of phys-
iotherapy Ian
McCrae is new
South Huron
physiotherapist
Krista Geiger,
who started at
the hospital in
May. Geiger's
hiring marks the
first time in over
four years South
Huron has had a
second physio-
therapist and
should decrease
waiting lists.
make some adjustments
and fill that gap," Cos-
grove said of hiring an-
other physiotherapist.
In other South Huron
Hospital news, the hos-
pital has hired a nurse
practitioner who will be
coming to ' the hospital
sometime this summer.
Nurse practitioners are
qualified for more re-
sponsibilities than reg-
istered nurses, including
prescribing some drugs
and should also lighten
the workload of some
staff members.
"It's exciting," Cos-
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grove said of recent hos-
pital developments, in-
cluding getting funding
to keep its emergency
room open, which was
forced to close a couple
of times over the past
year because of doctor
shortages.
The community is also
continuing its doctor re-
cruitment efforts, and
will be going on a med-
ical recruitment tour of
universities in the `fall to
try to convince medical
graduates to work in Ex-
eter.
W.ednesdgy, June 16, 1999
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