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WPH should bec.ome. resource centre by BRIAN WINTER Staff Writer A university affiliated regional resource centre is Administrator Milton J. Fislier's idea of whiat the Whitby Psychiatrie Hospital should be in the future. In a message written in the Decemiber issue of the Staff- Liner, the hospital's news- letter, Mr. Fisher said the hos- pital mnust attempt to develop a plan for future operation which will provide economnie justification for expanding the liospital to achieve this role. "Within this economnic justification w)iich is a lower cost to our region for units of service rendered than can be provided by other facilities, we should expand, and develop more useful- prograîns which will generate more eniploymnent, job se- curity and job satisf laction"i, lie said. "The time hias corne to reject the attitude of-passive- ly assuming thiat 'Community facilities can do il better', We should also reject the con- cept that we provide custodial care only, and compete aggressively through good management of ourresources". Mr, Fisher reported that due to provincial budget con- straints, the staff of the hospi- tal lias been -reduced by 140 since Mardi 31, 1975, but al- though the staff has decreased by 330 since 197 1, the patient population lias decreased by 549. Despite these cutbacks, hie said, -the ratio of staff to patients has increased. Accoriing to The Report of a Spezial Review Commit- tee, published in November, the staff-patient ratio in psyc- hiatrie liospitals has continued to increase as the in-patient load decreases, said Mr. Fisher and the resuits is that the provincial governrnent has been providing a service at 32 per cent more cost than its cost. for psychiatric units in general hospitals which re- ceive federal assistance. The federal goverament does flot subsidize provincial psychiatrie hospitals, and therefore there is a cost effectiveness problemn says Mr. Fisher. "Our choice is to reduce costs or justify them", he said. "L-egally and ethicially 1 arn re- quired to support the con- straihts imposed on this hospital", said Mr' Fisher, "However, 1 believe this hos- pital can only realîze its poten- tial if it gives more service for the dollars expended. We must, despite outside con- straints, continue with our program to make this liospital an appropriately contributing regional facility.. Mr. Fisher sees the conver- sion of the hospital into a uni- versity-affiliated regional re- source centre as a practical possibility. However, the restraints on the liospital resources could mean further staff reductions. In his message, Mr. Fisher stated lie is opposed layoffs of permanent and probation- ary slaff', and should any more staff restrictions be im- posed, the reductions required must'be made through natural attrition". Mr. Fisher also points out that the liospital cannot sup- port redundant positions that are no longer needed, and states that the effectiveness of the management of the hospi- taI, and the clearness of responsibility must be re-eval- uated. "The hospital cannot makeý the improvements we ail wantl in the face of resource re- strictions without careful ap- praisal of management effec- tiveness", he said. Mr.' Fisher points out furtlier thatL any constrainîs or improvements in efficiency cannot compromise the hos- pital's responsibilities to its patients. "The hospital exists to serve patients", lie said. "We mnust keep this purpose fore- most wliatever further con- straints are imposed on us " Early bus Workers is added Charterways Company Lîrnited appears 10 lie attempting 10 upgrade the standard of bus service theN provide t10 Witb. Shortly afier hiby Councillor Joy Thompson blasted Charte rwýav s* service and its buses. ai a recent operations coniiîttee ineet- ing. the local branch of the company added a 6 am. bus toil ýiîi hb\--Oslhawa- Bowm-nanv\ille rmn. According w Garnet\l'îit- field. m-anager of Ille local branch 'îhis service \01llbe for a trial period of six ek to determnine if ilhere is a surfilient numlber of CýersonS usin£ ,his service tao w-arrant il beinz continued on a pe-.- mèanent ai' hIe operations commIitîe mieeing ,, as a result 101-a reques: ftroni a Wu resident for counzit 10 look mbt the possibityv of Charter- w.avs addin! an earlier run to, iieir servce -soi that lie could eet 10 Oshawa N-vhere he works bv- 640 a.m. Preiouslv ithe earliest Charîterwa\s bus leaNing MWitbv for Qshawva vvas 316: 50. Recreation Director Wayne DeVeau takes the cake (with S3.915, representing the final payment by the Lions Club cing>ac rcn eetn fteWib in lb for the Sports Timer in the Iroquois Park Arena. After ail. Although Lions President Gene Posteraro administzred the when i. DeVeau has such assistance available to his deiverv of the cake. he had something much more department from local service clubs, lie finds he "can have -important to zÏve to Mr. DeVetati. This was a cheque for his cake and eat it too. Free Press Photo get bonus Whitby Council. last week, passed a resolution to-award ail permanent employees of the Town a S200 bonus for their work in 1975. Councillor Ken lobbs was the only opponent. saying "l'm going to do my utmost to figlit inflation in this municipality. If we don't start now. we'1l neyer start". He added that the total of the bonuses would equal S25,000. Councillor Don Lovelock îold Councillor Hobbs thaï tie Town is already in pos- session of the bonus money and, therefore, îaxpayer<* wallets would flot be affected. He added that the bonus is onlv "a roken ap precia lion". Councillor Tomn Edwards said lie supported awarding tic bonus to the Town employees as they are "badly underpaid" when compared to tiose of other municipal- ities. "We've always been able to get 100 percent from them. I jusî whish the govern. ment of nuis country would try 10 help people cope". Cou uncil moves on harbor develop ment by BLAKE PURDY Staff Writer Witby Councîl. last uwk. agreed in prnciple vith a report of Director of t>evelop- ment Forbes MzEwen which puis forth iive recommenda- nons for the iniial stages of te development of Wiby harbour. Mr. INcEwen recommend- cd dredsine of the channel ro a depih of eighî fet. S62.000: drtdznc, of rte Front Sieri basin wxrh rite deptit gradualv ly oped from ergIr feet 10 five féret ai the easterly end, Î45.000: pro- recring 150 feet of shoreline east of Charles Stret, S'26.000: dyking for te four acres being developedl nort of thte yacht Club, S10,000: and pro-viding a public ramp and parking arm, S7.000 for a total of $1 50.000 wh4ich could bc ta>oen from the S175.000 presntly in the industial Sites account. Mr. .McEwen, in -nis report., also proposed thât the Town lease portions of the 70 acres it owns to Whirbv Boat Works and Wegu Rubber Lîmiied. tMo boat bulding fi=ms now operatîng m the- area of the harhour, in exchan2e for "~front end boadina" investments in rte harbour developmnent- Wfliby Boat Wouî-a> #ould receive about two acres ijf Iand in return for an invest- ment of S85.000 and Wegu Ruibber would gel approxi- nmaely one-haif an acre in excharnge for a S35,000 investient. Council urged Mr. WCEwen te furrther dkscus the question of leasing the land with the tîwo firms. Mfavor Jim Gartshore cauîioned taIt his 15 only te first of many stcps in the fuil-scale &velopment of the harbour v4iich. according 10 Mr. %McEwen, could cosi up Io S500,000. Ail councillors supported the recommendations wîth vaîng degrees of enthusiasm.