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WLMH ORs ready Sept. 14 By Mike Williscraft NewsNow The long-awaited re-opening of West Lincoln Memorial Hospital’s operating rooms will roll out Sept. 14. A Hamilton Health Sciences memo last Friday, Aug. 28 outlined what the reboot will look like, with one significant absence, no after hours obstetrics (OB) on-call. The key issue there is a shorage of OR nurses, a major issue which should have been resolved, say local officials. “Quite frankly, at this stage many in the community are concerned OB services will ever resume at WLMH after what will be more than a year of low OB volumes and minimal OB funding. This is a shame given how well known WLMH was for the quality of service and positive experience in our OB,” said Andrew Smith, chair of the WLMH Community Advisory Committee. The plan does include: • Continuing to build up OR nursing staff levels to increase on-call capabilities at WLMH and enable growth in surgical services over time; this includes the OR nurse training program currently underway, as well as ongoing, aggressive recruitment efforts; • Resuming endoscopy procedures; • Resuming gynecology and general surgery cases, with plans to expand to also include other surgical See WLMH, Page 4
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John Van Duzer (Left) receives some peach pies from Marb McMullen during Fifty United Church’s Peach Drive-Thru Saturday. The event, which also ran Friday, saw the church parking lot packed with folks looking to purchase peach desserts, preserves and other goodies. Marks - Photo
New, incomplete details sink condo project again Parking proposal, restaurant space, temporary shift for right-of-way leave questions, say councillors By Mike Williscraft NewsNow A variety of new details at the 11th hour proved too much for Grimsby council last week, leading to a defeat of a revamped Century Condo proposal. Adjusting the parking complement to include up to 16 tandem parking spaces, accounting for 1,000 sq ft of a proposed 3,000 sq ft restaurant as “front of house” to reduce parking needed for customers and a proposal to temporarily shift responsibility
for a right-of-way through the property during construction left too many unanswered questions for five councillors who voted against the proposal. Four were in favour. Councillors Dorothy Bothwell, Lianne Vardy and Dave Sharpe all asked extensive questions on those three items in particular, all of which were newly introduced at the special meeting of council, Aug. 27. “We are at a point today where it is still not resolved, the title is not re-
solved. We have not dotted our ‘I’s and crossed our ‘T’s,” said Bothwell on the question of the right-of-way ownership - on which a lawsuit to determine ownership is still before the courts. Bothwell also noted that the restaurant usage, which has a higher parking requirement, includes a 1/3-2/3 split for front and back-ofhouse. Using an industry standard for this ratio, she said 17 more parking spaces would be required. This
breakdown was included in the proposal for the first time last week. Grimsby’s director of planning, Antonietta Minichillo, told Bothwell “the onus is on them during the site plan” stage to deliver on parking requirements, suggesting the developer, Homes By DeSantis, would simply build fewer residential units to come down to match the prescribed number of parking spaces needed. Coun. Lianne Vardy said the details See CONDO, Page 3
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CONDO From Page 1 put before council were incomplete and one-sided at best. Noting a special planner had been contracted to help with this particular file, Vardy said, “We still have not addressed the fundamentals. We need to get back to basics.” Coun. Kevin Ritchie wrote off all the concerns as minor and distilled the hold-up on votes of support down to worries about 10 parking spaces, while singling out Sharpe for kudos in questioning the parking allotment. “I think it is fantastic,” said Ritchie of the plan. Sharpe noted disappointment on several fronts, ranging from the presentation of brand new information with little back-up detail, the weakness of tandem parking spaces as a proposed solution to bring up the total of parking spaces and the lack of critical analysis from staff to help councillors make
an informed decision. On the tandem spots, he noted personal experience when he and his wife previously lived with tandem spots. He noted they are generally inconvenient and one of the residents will use a visitor parking space or park on the street. He cited incidents where a resident complained about a given issue and his comment back from staff after looking into it was “there is nothing we can do” to solve the problem. “We are at the point now where we can control this,” said Sharpe, adding a question directly to the director of planning. “We can (also) control this at site plan. The question is, will you? There are a lot of ‘maybes’. We need to see things...Nobody will complain if there is too much parking.” Regarding the restaurant square footage breakdown, Sharpe noted his disappointment in staff. “I depend on staff. I am
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From Page 1 services that are appropriate for the WLMH day surgery model. New surgical infrastructure, such as the C-arm, creates new opportunities for the range of services that can be offered on the site, and; • Resuming elements of obstetrics services at WLMH, such as scheduled C-sections, while maintaining a redirect of women in labour until January 2021 when we expect our nurse training graduates will be capable of supporting the on-call roster. “It is exciting to see OR services resume at WLMH and HHS has been planning for this since the renovations began last year. I was hoping that with a year of planning HHS would have had ample time to ramp up training and get ahead of the OR staffing issues that have been a concern at WLMH for years,” added Smith.
The HHS team recognizes the significance of the milestone. “Reopening the WLMH operating rooms is a significant milestone for the WLMH community. A lot of work has taken place to get us here, and we’re grateful for everyone who has contributed to this process along the way. This includes our clinical planning teams, program staff and physicians, contractors, community and government partners,” said Michael Stacey, HHS executive vice president, academic and chief medical executive. “We’re pleased that a variety of surgeries and procedures, including scheduled caesarian births, will be able to restart gradually in mid-September as we build up our OR staffing levels. We know the community is eager for some after-hours obstetric on call to return to the site; we are as well. Our priority remains recruiting and training OR nurses to
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support this return in January.” For WLMH Action Committee co-chair Tony Joosse, excitement is tempered with disappointment. “I am delighted the OR construction has been completed on time and very pleased that surgeries, including scheduled C-section births and gynecology procedures, are resuming right away. So, babies will be back at WLMH in two weeks, said Joosse.” “I am disappointed that the HHS training program for new nurses had delays due to COVID-19. These four nurses will hopefully be ready to go by January. This lack of staffing has great effect on operating a full OB department, which has and remains a concern with our community.” With this significant piece of the WLMH puzzle in place, HHS officials will now shift their attention to delivering a CT scanner for West Niagara. Construction on that front is scheduled to start next month.
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GROVE, Donald (Don) Passed away peacefully at the Vineland Mennonite Home on August 25 in his 91st year. Don was the beloved husband and best friend of Pat for 66 years. He was the loving Father of Carl (Nancy) of Ottawa and Peggy Daniel (Doug) of Brantford. Don also got to enjoy being the loving Papa of Frieda (Stuart), Jeff, Dave, Tabitha, Gabe (Emily), Sam, and three great granddaughters. Don will be sadly missed by his brother Gary (Beth) and is predeceased by his siblings Marvin, Gordon, and Marion. Don was a retired CNR Conductor, with 35 years of service. When he retired in 1987, he was working as a conductor on VIA Rail passenger trains, running out of Toronto. A highlight of his service was working Queen Elizabeth’s train when she travelled through Southern Ontario in 1973. Upon retirement, Don was active in the Grimsby Historical Society and Trinity United Church. Don also turned to writing and consulting about his train experiences. Many of his train articles and reminiscences are still available in The Branchline Magazine archive: bytownrailwaysociety.ca/index. php/branchline/branchline-backissues. The family wishes to extend their sincere thanks to the amazing staff at Vineland Mennonite Home for their love, care, and kindness. Cremation and a family service have already taken place. Online condolences can be left through STONEHOUSE-WHITCOMB FUNERAL HOME, GRIMSBY, 905-945-2755. www.smithsfh.com
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Disappointing, not surprising Without question, the news that the operating rooms at West Lincoln Memorial Hospital will re-open Sept. 14 is more than welcome to anyone and everyone in Niagara West. When Hamilton Health Sciences announced in October 2019 they would shut down the ORs, many feared they would never re-open. That sentiment was not wholly unjustified. There had been so much drama leading up to that point mainly regarding staffing shortages and HHS’s inability to manage that situation in a way even closely resembling appropriate - the OR closure just appeared to be another nail in the facility’s coffin. This was because the problems on the staffing mismanagement were so glaring, it was hard to believe at that time that the OR renovation could be executed properly. Now, the cake is half-baked...maybe. We have precious resources and services coming back to WLMH, but we have arguably its most prominent service obstetrics - still mothballed because HHS could not get the 18-months-plus issue with nursing staff levels solved. Sure there has been COVID in the middle of this, but the nursing staff issues far outdate that. Nurses were contacting this office saying they offered to be cross-trained early on, only to be told it would take up to a year and HHS refused to do it. Then when the announced closure of the OR came, it would have been logical to use that year to invest in those nurses, maintain those you had on the roster and all would be well when ready to roll out the re-opening. So when the release goes out saying all is ready, except the one thing HHS knew literally years ago to be a serious issue, one has to wonder....WHAT GIVES? These are smart people. One would like to think them wellintentioned. So on what planet is it ok to be in the exact same jackpot you were one year previous with little to no change. In private enterprise, people with those kinds of results would be terminated immediately. Truly, they would not have survived a whole year before the deed was done. What this delay achieves is leaving WLMH with on-call births for the entire 2020 calendar year. One must wonder if this is part of a strategy to keep birth numbers low, with no sign of recovery. This calls future funding into question. M.W.
Nay was the only logical Century Condo vote So Gabe DeSantis is a pretty cheesed off camper, and he should be. I have noted in this space several times in the last couple of years he really got sold down the river on more than one occasion with his Century Condo project. In past conversations, I have discussed this with Gabe directly, with members of town council and with many members of the general public who follow or inquire about this project. I have considerable sympathy for him as this project - which will be great for downtown when it happens - has been sooooo close to getting approved it would make your head spin. The last meeting of council before the election in 2018 the previous group was on the edge of stuffing it through. This council does want it to happen - as do many residents and business folk - but they also want it built to appropriate design specs. The matter was brought back to a special meeting of council last Thursday, all to meet an arbitrarily set deadline of Aug. 31 for having a decision made. The project does not have to remain on the shelf for a long time. Any litigation can be avoided if plans get in line with what council wants. A two-thirds vote of council would be needed to get the matter back on the table and it could them be dealt with at the next meeting. Sounds simple, but that “with what council wants” part is at issue. The project and concerns with it cannot be simplified in the manner Coun. Kevin Ritchie attempted last week by saying the problem was 10 parking spots; the meeting before and then last week issues evolved into
MIKE WILLISCRAFT other areas after the parking issue was solved. The simplicity which Ritchie and Councillors Randy Vaine, Dave Kadwell and John Dunstall look at the condo project is cause for alarm on many fronts, but no more so than their general conduct over the last year-plus. Generalizing, they say it’s a great project and should move forward. In a purely Motherhood view, that is correct. It is a great project and even people that are bitterly opposed for whatever reason need to step back and realize that. Yes, one can think a different aesthetic would be more palatable. Maybe you want a three-storey instead of four...whatever your preference is, today’s planning guidelines will take care of that. What residents should expect, if not demand, is that Town staff and council ensure the things that are within in their control fit Official Plan, bylaw and good planning principles. The vote last Thursday, by all rights, should have been unanimously opposed to what council had in front of them. None of that is the fault of DeSantis. The entire blame, as Coun. Sharpe noted, lays with staff who presented major, brand new pieces of information
with little or no supporting research and on other points provided zero critical analysis on which council could base its decision. It was not a pom-pom cheerleader as the previous one, but it was seriously deficient. The introduction of tandem parking spots as a solution to a 10-spot parking deficiency was the least of concerns. The introduction of the possibility of shifting control and liability of the right-of-way running through the lot to DeSantis during construction and reverting back to the Town when work is done left many scratching their respective heads. That right-of-way - the ownership of which is still to be determined by the courts - underlines all aspects of the project as those on council who are opposing the project believe there should be more consideration given to their desires for the build since the developer is seeking to acquire what they believe to be the town-owned passage. Ritchie, Vaine, Kadwell and Dunstall are prepared to give it away with minimal concessions, as was the previous council. The project is good, and will be good, but as Coun. Dorothy Bothwell noted, I’s need to be dotted and T’s need to be crossed and approving a half-baked (at best) proposal is not good for anyone. And I have no problem if Gabe feels the need to call and yell at me, but making threats against me and this paper, as well as other DIA members doesn’t help him at all. I get his anger, but he’s a smart man. If he looks at what was presented he had to know it could not fly. That is on Town staff.
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