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8 -- PORT PERRY STAR -- Wednesday, Sept. 15, 1976 V.0.N. make over 500 Scugog Twp. visits In 1975, more than 500 visits were made to people in the Port Perry area by the Victorian Order of Nurses, providing professional nurs- ing care at home on a visit basis. But according to the VON, a report prepared for the VON by Edward A. Picker- ing. the organization stands in grave danger of being displaced as the vehicle for delivering nursing care. A study initiated by the Victorian Order of Nurses for Canada to examine the voluntary agency's future role in home nursing care, urges that the VON "*publicly state its case for being re- cognized as the agency for delivering the nursing com- ponent in Home Care Pro- grams'. Made available for release September 9 by Robert G. Smethurst, President, VON for Canada, the report was prepared by Edward A. Pickering, a Toronto busi- ness consultant, and chair- man of the Ontario Health Disciplines Board. Mr. Pickering says that with the development of government-controlled Home Care programs, the VON "stands in grave danger of being displaced as the vehicle for delivering nursing care'. He notes that 'this has already happened in British Columbia where VON pro- grams and personnel have been taken over on Van- couver Island, and where plans are far advanced for a similar takeover on the lower mainland. The situ- ation in Quebec is obscure, but the future is difficult and doubltful. In Manitoba, the Brandon branch was recent- ly forced to lose because of encroachment by the gov- ernment's own service'. On the other hand, Mr. Pickering says that other provincial governments ex- hibit a quite different ap- proach and react much more positively to VON's partici- pation in Home Care pro- grams. Ontario, Saskatche- wan, New Brunswick and Newfoundland, he says, fore- see a continuing and possibly an expanding role for VON "if it can develop adequate "management capacity to deal with the programs con- templated". In most provinces VON is News from Utica area (continued) had a special birthday on Sun. September 12th. Mrs. Chester Holley of Holland Centre is spending a few days visiting Mr. and Mrs. Mervyn MacCannell and her father Mr. A. MacDonald who is in hosp- ital at Port Perry. We are sorry that Mr. MacDonald is not feeling so well. Mr. Dale Beare of Miss- issauga visited Mrs. Jack For Photograph REPRINTS , from the Port Perry Star Phone 985-7383 RR Vi Protection Plan (ask vs for special low prices and hgh ine automobiles! Come in and AMC models: * PACERS * HORNETS drive these economical * GREMLINS Crosier on Friday. Mr. and Mrs. Howlett of Toronto called on Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Lowe on Sat. Mr. and Mrs. James Toogood and Mrs. Grace Boxall were recent visitors with Mr. and Mrs. Mervin Storie. Recent visitors with Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Bailey and Mrs. Ola Forsythe were Mrs. Ethel Kidd and Mr. and Mrs. Ted Kidd of Good- wood and Mrs. Harry Harper and Mrs. Hugh Rogers of Oshawa. Mrs. Peter Sutcliffe, Kathy and Mike called on Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Craw- ford of Cavan on Sunday. Mr. Ryan Sutcliffe of NEWS from CHOLLI PALSY [0] WHITBY we are pleased to announce our appointment as your AMERICAN MOTORS DEALER We Rave a Wil range of AMC products in stock They're al Backed by M™e excivsive AMC Buyer full detains) We're Celebrating our appointment this week with extra trade in allowances Come in today and take a test drive in one of these test * MATADORS * JEEP TRUCKS at GRANT MENZIES MOTORS 1250 Dundas E., Whitby 668-6843 or 728-2822 Janetville visited his grand- parents, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Sutcliffe on Sunday. The Earl Fielding family were home for supper on Sunday. : Mr. and Mrs. Harry Charlton of Scarborough called on Mr. Baker on Wed. Mr. and Mrs. Murray Kirton and Bruce of Mount Albert were Saturday visit- ors with Mrs. Dennis Thompson. Mrs. James E. Mitchell spent the weekend with Mr. and Mrs. Ivan Gray of Port Perry. Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Page of Agincourt were Sunday visitors with Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Lowe. providing, in whole or in part, the nursing component of Home Care under agree- ment with the provincial government and in some cases with local-municipal- ities, More than 60 percent of 1,631,172 visits made by VON nurses in the Order's 78 branches across Canada in 1975 were paid from government funds. Mr. Pickering says that with taxpayer's money available, governments are apt to take the position that the service can only be pro- vided through government bureaucracy itself, and that some of the public officials he interviewed argue that government funding requir- es government delivery of service. But this is just not so according to Mr. Picker-' ing who, listing examples to the contrary, points to the blood transfusion service entirely financed from government sources but ad- ministered by the Canadian Red Cross, most hospitals which are under the direc- tion of boards made up of both professionals and lay- men, and legal aid pro- grams. Noting that "VON has a superlative record as an integrated service with trained personnel, high standards and good super- vision", Mr. Pickering de- scribes the VON nurse as "an instinctive advocate of the patients and their needs" and asks "Which offers the better chance of concern for the individual, a govern- ment-employed nursing staff or a voluntary institution long dedicated to the care of the ill in their own homes?" The report says that if VON expects to serve as the agency of government in home care nursing, the Order will have to recognize government requirements relating to cost control, budgeting, accounting, cost effectiveness and patient record systems. To improve its relations with govern- ments in these and other areas, Mr. Pickering recom- mends that a 'competent business executive be add- ed to the staff of the VON national office in Ottawa on a full-time basis, and that "'it should be possible to secure from a small group of sym- pathetic business corpora- tions the funds needed to support a position of this kind for a five-year period, thus avoiding any drain on general revenues'. The Board of Management of the VON for Canada has accepted the report and is .. considering plans for its im- plementation. Mrs. Alyce Kunetsky is a familiar face in the Scugog area. She's a VON nurse, and has spent hundreds of hours in the area caring for people suffering from medical, surgical conditions, and many others. The future role of the VON in home nursing care is under fire in view of other governmental programs. 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