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Health Records a busy department
The Health Records Department of
the Seaforth Community Hospital is
staffed by two full time Health Record
Technicians, one who is Director of the
Department.
1977Ma
was hir
ber
as Barnes
parttime file ecclerk. Shin en con-
tinued in this position until March 1982
when she went full time in Health
Records, In September 1983 Mrs.
Barnes became Secretary to the Ad-
ministrator, and in December 1983 she
became Director of Health Records.
Mary Diegel was originally hired as a
part time file clerk in November 1975,
but terminated employment in
December 1977. She returned to the
Health Record staff in July 1986 as a
full time Health Record Technician.
Both Mrs. Barnes and Mrs. Diegel
are graduates of the Canadian Hospital
Association Health Record Technicians
correspondence course and are also
associate members of the Canadian Col-
lege of Health Record Administrators.
Health Records is a very busy depart-
ment. It houses close to 13,660 charts
for which its employees are responsible.
Main duties include transcription of
physician's dictation, including con-
sultants in internal medicine, or-
thopedics, and radiology, as well as our
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SEAFORTH
COMMUNITY
HOSPITAL
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secretary for medical staff committee
meetings, which are held on a monthly
basis. She is also Hospital Library
Liaison for the Shared Library Service
provided by South Huron Hospital,
Exeter.
The Health Record Department has
two computers for word processing and
the one computer also has an abstrac-
ting progran, for patient chart
statistical information.
HEALTH RECORDS - Mary Barnes,
director and Mary Diegel, technician.
own local physicians. All in patient and
out patient reports are Bled in the chart
'folder for anyone presenting at the
hospital,
Mrs. Barnes is the recording
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