The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

NEWS AND INFORMATION FROM MILTON DISTRICT HOSPITA The monitor is sponsored by these community minded businesses and individuals: Halton Automotive Industrial Supply Ltd, Bill Currie, Bob (Pie) Lee, McCuaig Insurance Ltd, McKersie-Kocher Funeral Home Ltd. TICKETS for the upcoming- MICHAEL BURGESS concert to be held on September 2Oth are still available at Delecourt's, Peggy's of Milton Mail, Foundation Office, MDH Gift Shop and Switchboard. M4DW-OTMH AMALGAMATION TO BE COM- PLETE BY AUGUST 1, 1998 1 . OUR APPRECIATION GOES OUT TO ... Sargent Farms Catering & BBQ Inc. for their donation of $30150 which represented a portion of the proceeds of the BBQ held on Canada Day at Rotary Park 1 and to Amy and Lauren Black, Lisa Perruzza and Rachel and Nadine Nesbitt who raised $ 11.84 at their lemonade stand and donated it to the Foundation. The Foundation would like to wish ét Bob ise a pnsro Hep Mon irt andw Bob Le a vesrof hppyMotorthnday!w Iare Al thankful for his generosity. A few of the volunteers who helped out at the Foundation's Strawberry Daiquiri Booth held during the Strawberry Fair. Murray Wilson, Marlyn Flemingtofl, Donna McLaughlin, Heather Laing and Joan Grifiths SUPERCHOICE COUNTRY MARKET will be holding a BBQ on August 7th, 8th and 9th in front of their store at 575 Ontario St. S. Delicious hotdogs and hamburgers will be only $2.00 each and pop $1.00. Ail proceeds will be donated to the Foundation. Drop on over, have lunch and help support MDH! Effective this Saturday, our hospital will have completed its amalgamation with the Oakville Trafalgar Memorial H-ospital. In Tuesday's Champion a two page centre spread provided a comprehensive update on the amalga- mation and what it means to our two hospitals and our communities. It is important to note that while our new corporate umbrella namne will be The Halton Heaithecare Services Corporation, the naines of both hospitals will not change. Our local site here in Milton will stili be called T Milton District Hospital. ADDITIONA.L GROWIH FUNDING FOR 1998/99 MDII has received additional funding from the Ministry of Health for this financial year in the amount of $165,200. These additional funds recognize the growth in services that MDH has experienced and will assist us in our efforts to continue to meet the increased demand for inpatient and outpatient services. MDH's allocation is part of an additional $20M allocated by the Provincial Government this year to high growth areas. PUBLIC OPINION SURVEY - WE NEED YOUR INPUT M DI is undertaking its first annual public opinion survey over the next week or so and we will value your opinions about our services and bow we can improve them to bet- ter meet your needs. The telephone survey will take about ten to fifteen minutes to complete and we are hop- ing to receive responses from 200 Milton and area resi- dents. DID YOU KNOW.. A few annual statistics on our services - MDII is a busy place! " Number of inpatient days of care provided: Acute Care - 16,535 Chronic Care - 10,915 " Visits to our Emergency Department - 31,000 " X-ray procedures - 15,496 ,ROOF, " Physiotherapy attendances - 14,782 " Surgical procedures - 1,800 " Occupational Therapy attendances - 1,967 " ECG examinations- 2,538 MILTON DIST'RI&«[CT HOSPITAL L~ Quality Care for a Heaithier Community. I 1 THÂNK YOU MILTON - THE STRAWBERRY FAIR WAS AN ENORMOUS SUCCESS!, A special thanks to our hardworking volunteers!