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1?? King SliiM't West, Oshawa • I ivt- Points Mall. z8s I.iimton Ho,id l ast. Osltaw.i i)) King Slipvt Inst, Bowmanvillr fall (qos) 72» S'H/ • loll hot-i Boo 268 8771 • www.awttu.com www.durhamregion.com THE CANADIAN STATESMAN, JANUARY 28,2004 PAGE 5 Lakeridge Health is 'moving in the right direction' LAKERIDGE- from page 1 %• recovered! You'll*see a better picture in the next report," he said. Overall, Mr. Lemon said Hospital Report 2003 indicates Lakeridge Health is "moving in the right directions" directions" despite facing some challenges. "In this period, we're undergoing pretty severe restraints; taking millions of dollars out of the system and displacing displacing fairly large numbers of staff...to maintain these kind of (overall) (overall) results certainly was, in our view, was excellent. Arnel . Schiratti, hospital spokesman, said costs to deliver services services have increased at a rate higher than the amount the hospital receives to provide them. Anne Wright, chairman of the Lakeridge Lakeridge Health Board of Trustees, said the report shows an "overwhelming majority" of Durham residents are pleased with the health care and services services Lakeridge provides. "These results results don't come through luck," she said. "They are earned each and every day." Hilary Short, OHA CEO, said these evaluations lead to health-care reforms. reforms. "Hospital Reports are a key instrument instrument in quality improvement and knowledge management. They are a catalyst for transformation...everyone in the province benefits from improved patient services in all hospitals," Ms. Short said. A copy of the report is available on the OHA Web site at www.oha.com. Have you say on the system at durhamregt0111.com Report will determine the future of OPG REPORT from page 1 late February. "It will provide guidance to the board as it makes changes to the business business plan," Mr. McNeil noted. Also, KPMG is doing an audit of OPG's board of directors, he said. He didn't know the cost of the reviews,but reviews,but doesn't expect it to be high. "A lot of the information is already there," Mr. McNeil said. "They take the information and compile it." In early December, a panel headed by Mr. Epp issued a scathing report on the company's performance on the 'A'-side restart. OPG's top three executives resigned resigned in the wake. Mr. Epp is now chairman of the interim board. "He has a long history and deep knowledge of all things nuclear," Mr. McNeil said. The interim board "will stay in position position until the government decides what it wants." As for the operation at the plant, the Unit 6 reactor is currently in a planned maintenance outage, he said. That began at the beginning of December December and the work is "coming along very well." Unit 4, the first of the four mothballed mothballed reactors to be restarted, was running at 96 per cent of power Tuesday Tuesday morning and "in the next few days it will be 98 per cent and holding there. The unit is operating very well," he added. Mr. McNeil pointed out with the three remaining 'A'-side reactors "a substantial amount of effort was done parallel of unit 4's return to service." If the company gets the go-ahead to continue rehabilitating the units, work would start as early as this' summer, and Unit 1 would be back online in late 2005. "There would be some limited engineering engineering work on units 2 and 3. The bulk of the work would be done on Unit 1," he noted. The cost to refurbish Unit 1 is estimated estimated at $500 million, he said, adding $1.5 billion was spent refurbishing Unit 4, but there, are common components components related to all four units. ; <? >5 Lakeridge Health s ' y y' AitowntiRrit Bowmanville Oshawa Port Perry Whitby AW: :• Lakeridge Health Bowmanville is pleased to announce the opening of the office of Dr. Riaz Moolla Family Physician ■ 222 King Street East Bowmanville, Ontario L1C 1P6 905-623-8673 Dr. Moolla will bé accepting new patients as of January 26,2004. OPEN HOUSE AT KNOX CHRISTIAN SCHOOL <C Knox Christian School Are you interested in providing quality Christian education for your children? Would you like a tour of our school and receive an information package? Are you interested in checking out our major construction project that will make our building 40,000 square feet? Would you like to register your children so they can begin school at Knox Christian School in September 2004?, If you answered "yes," to any of the above questions, then you need to attend one of our open house/registration days on Tuesday, February 3, or Wednesday, February 4. Call Knox Christian School at 905-623-5871 to make your appointment or drop by 410 Scugog Street to look around. We will be pleased to help you. Chart shows emergency patient satisfaction ratings on three levels in Hospital Report 2003. 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