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Trustee gets director‘s apology for comments on board energy plan By ANGELA BLACKBURN Oakville Beaver Staff A critical comment by a Halton Board of Education assistant superintendent about Ward 3 trustee John Scheel printed in a Burlington newspaper, ended with education director Bob Williams extending a formal apology to Scheel at Thursday‘s board meeting. On Thursday, Williams made a public statement in which he recounted a conversation outside the board room between a Burlington newspaper reporter and assistant business services/plant superintendent Gerry Cullen after a special July board meeting. By BARB JOY Oakville Beaver Staff Between renovations and cutâ€" backs, beds at Oakville Trafalgar Memorial Hospital are getting a litâ€" tle snug, so snug, in fact, that docâ€" Too many patients, too few beds causing problems at OTMH _ Scheel, who had raised concerns about the payback connected to an energy management project under consideration by the board, had walked out of the meeting in frustration. _ ___ _ _ Under pressure of a July 30th application deadline by Ontario Hydro, trustees decided to pursue the incentive at the expense of not tendering the proâ€" gram‘s engineering contract. 6 f =’m’l-‘.h;: Loz;d-;pix%ved gngmng a contract with Tescor Energy Services Inc. (forâ€" merly. known as Tamblyn Energy Services Inc.), a firm which had conducted a $471,000 energy savings audit for the board. Strategic Projections, Inc. "Planning Your Future Amidst Demographic and Economic Change Everyone Welcome Refreshments XTom O Donaghue _ _ Saturday, September 25 at 8 p.m. at the Knights of Columbus Hall 494 Wallace Ave. _ . Qakyville Y Special Speaker 976â€"4321 The 21st Annual General Meeting RSVP 844â€"0252/878â€"6403 will be held uesday, September 21st Rotary publ 560 Guelph LIne Burlington 7â€"30 p.m om McCormack,. President Youth C tors are being asked to free up beds as soon as possible. The message to that effect that came through the hospital‘s public address system Thursday might have made some patients a little uncomfortable, although Kathy * Small classes _ * Personal instruction * Handâ€"on exercise , * Workbook & disk supplied Word pertect 5.1 Lotus 1â€"2â€"3 DOS/Intro to computers & ntro to c ers & windows & MUCH MORE... Evening & Weekend Classes 4212 Speers Rd between 3rd & 4th Lines, Oarvike WORDS NOW 847â€"6261 =2()() _ entre nir N COM 1993 JOHN SCHEEL Fre 229 Lakeshore Road East (west of Trafalgar) 842â€"4088 i7 t and lot parkin 1 EDWARDIAN CONSOLE A splendid Regencyâ€"style, mahoganyâ€"finished console with graceful turned and fluted legs and antiqued solid brass ferrules to match the brass medallions on the apron. A beautiful buffet as well as a console, hall table or sofa table. Although no surgery had to be cancelled, Scantlebury said a few patients were asked to go home a day or two earlier than the schedâ€" uled stay for their particular condiâ€" tions, if their doctors said they could. "No patient would be discharged _ "We have some flexibility." if not medically stable enough to go The bed squeeze has resulted in home," she said. "I don‘t think most hospitals using the services of we‘re sending out anyone unsafeâ€" "bed monitors." OTMH has two M n a} woeg © II,Ielzase Expiry vento ClearoutryM 1/ 2 Price‘ )7.%6 &4 Th HIn Special Discounts on Robert Bateman‘s , Carl Brender‘s, John Seereyâ€"Lester, etc. .. ifter 6 p.m. Fr +390 SALE MBA crrRep PETERWATSONINVESMENTSLIMMTED §$599 lot parking all day Saturday and Sund 14 THE OAKVILLE BEAVEI t8..8 a. o Nes un whiee aho im priced Out of c AMCA f im w ligh (mesrzz3, 7 4 #» ly At the root of the problem are provincial cutbacks that closed 33 beds last year. A further 23 beds were also closed due to the hospiâ€" tal‘s current renovations project, due for completion in 1995, which will add two more operating rooms where more day surgery will be perâ€" formed, said Scantlebury. 177 Lakeshore Rd. E. +338â€"6138 Monâ€"Sat. 1046 pm, Sun. 15 pm _ When warranted, she said patients have been relegated to other areas. ‘"We‘ve sometimes put adult surâ€" gical patients and adult medicine patients in the paediatric ward, if beds are available there, but we can‘t put infectious disease patients in the obstetrics ward because of the danger to infants," she said, adding: ‘"We have some flexibility." We are an indmdem Oakville fim specializing in Free Consultation 842â€"7602 AV m weekly alternating bed monitors, _ than necessary. And, at times, so do Drs. Donald Aitken and David _ their families. Schooling, whose job it is to speed "We‘ve heard excuses such as: up discharges, when appropriate,. If "We have to paint Mom‘s room a patient remains in hospital longer before she comes home,‘" said than the provincial standard of hosâ€" Schooling. "That just doesn‘t wash pital stays call for, they wonder why _ in 1993." and usually nudge both doctors and With "marvellous" community patients to free up beds. services such as Hospitalâ€"inâ€"theâ€" Sometimes it‘s a matter of getâ€" _ Home, he said there is no reason, in ting laboratory tests and xâ€"rays back _ most cases, for patients to remain in a little more quickly so that doctors _ hospital longer than their scheduled can give the allâ€"clear to discharging _ stay. their patients; at other times, "We won‘t discharge patients but patients can be spurred to release if they stay longer, we want to find their beds in the evening instead of out why," he concluded. "Doctors waiting until the following day; still and patients need to be reminded others â€" often older patients â€" _ (about bed shortages)." expect to remain in hospital longer FOR YOUR FREE NAUTILUS WORKOUT _ Cact LOW CALORIE MEALS, BALANCED FOR GOOD NUTRITION. PRIVATE INSTRUCTION 3 TIMES A WEEK. 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