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| A look at Renfrew Victoria Hospital â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€" | | /fl/p 21143 Office hub f of activity kmss 0. . “ : | by Lucy Brown se e s o & Assistant editor a 4 & By all accounts, Pat Hamilton loves j U smm . l $ 5 | her job. _ 8 . . §E | o ue | _ _From accounts receivable to acâ€" '» *4 w . counts payable, Hamilton keeps the a m . 0 % M# _ Renfrew Victoria Hospital accounting a 5 _ ks dn 2 P department humming. 3 _ _ > ‘ . _E "All activity in the hospital ulâ€" & y l 9 . Peee timately flows through the business ofâ€" L _ * > C Bi . #~ h f fice for documentation," says Hamilton â€" U «‘, [ 3 gfi who has been business office superâ€" (G fe e zin e * | visor since 1988. § a : * l | "Things are constantly changing, for M E. i : , d *,;;Z the good," she says. $ p . 1 sj‘g?é "I anticipate a busy year ahead." s .. : _ e . : Hamilton assists with the hospital‘s e o & } | financial management program, under . See P 0 .. . S | director of finance Pat Baker. She also 1.fi Z2 _ 1. . y m3 handles accounting for the Alcohol | _ â€" | _ % o _ I & o 5. * and Drug Assessment Referral Service | _ _ | _ _\ \ * â€" ~. 0_ S ~â€" SR and Mental Health Program. J ¢ e c o af i : The department handles payroll for _ NR _ kn 3 e 0o ie s} MB on w 260 employces. w i c C _‘ _ CE :9 3 The three divisions under | N B _ k. : lngg SEX ‘ s Hamilton‘s jurisdiction are accounts _ | "" & & . o F . _ _ ®#e. receivable, accounts payable and cash L 3 o n &*j ato w £2 receipts. 2 4 ~â€" C °4 Ee _ ¢ Accounts receivable maintains [ Wee C > iâ€"k 6 weed ‘3;(* ie , financial records on all in patients and ‘h . t :g fir P _ WB _ make | out patients and verifies appropriate ".> S / o . 32 «; e 04 | charges are invoiced to patients or | .‘ & ; , L on e .. _ 3 is 3 | their insurers, while accounts payable & C a E. 5“; @ f _ :;’“ verifies and records invoices and issues | _ Q;” Sfi? e | AP cheques. k. 4 se 6 3 4s A?:(’,;w P : Hamilton is blessed with three exâ€" > e ... it. . e e | ‘ perienced coâ€"workers: Jean Virgin and e â€" C aâ€" 5“ iss u:‘ on Eileen Butler who each bring 24 years _ |@ s w . . B s i . of experience to their jobs, and Carol p o. | C . e >fi;£ Cuff who has 11 years of experience to _ | 6: § 8 . . [ .# e | j her credit. 2 e â€" â€" W < e . "I was previously supervisor of adâ€" E4 se j mitting department and switchboard e .. e s o & ..~ w 3 but admitting has moved to the area usls . oo Es . _ o j | where emergency is located. There is | now easier pgatig,n direction to the 13 _ Pat Hamilton s f clinics," Hamilton explains. $ ; "It is more convenient for patients "It‘s a very progressive and dynamic _ she is in the fourth year of the Certified who are being admitted through the â€" management team,'j she says. C Â¥ General Accountants‘ program. emergency department," she says. Hami.lton’s previous experience inâ€" > y 2 As plans materialize for new clinics _ cludes five years with Peat Marwick ‘Hargullon is no stranger to Renfrew :# and services, there will be even more: â€" Thorne in Pembrokeand the County of _ Victoria Hospital. Nineteen years ago, activity for the business office to adâ€" _ Renfrew clerk treasurer‘s office. from 1974 to 1975, she worked as exâ€" | minister. But that suits Hamilton and Her credentials include a twoâ€"year _ ¢cutive secretary to former adâ€" | | her team just fine. municipal administration program and ministrator Russ Mackenzie. $4% x & | | ‘s Falls native, Effie Curr Forester‘s Falls e, Effie Y, 00th birthd b. 1 celebrated her 100th birthday Feb. \ oss Township in 1832. education in the public member. | Mon.d?yéFe,}?:a:y Flt;r:;: Â¥hey were the I1)31'<)neers af. school in Forester‘s Falls, _ Effie retired in Decemâ€" 2i pem% By(;‘ who now _ ter whom the Township of and.continuedtheretocomâ€" ber, 1963, and has had a ers.dFa‘s (r)l?t:wfa Ross was named. plete Grade 10. She then very active retirement. She j reslflflSX;n da Curry celee _ Effie received her early worked a number of years skated and downhill skied Eie ts s woowm=z=â€"wâ€"â€", in the district before going in season, and walked at brated her 100th birthday. pommnmmnneamrnsiencmeneammmmee; tsk & least i d 8 born on Tuess | _ _ . L pgprgms _ | to Ottawa to e nursing least a mile every day. he She _ was w* *Â¥ UZ | training in 1921 in the Old travelled to Australia, Chiâ€" day, February 1, 1893, a [R‘ &4 | Protestant Hospital. After na, Hong Kong. E fthe late Laughâ€" M _ . _______ °&# | _ Protestant Hospital. After na, s, mong, Europe, d_allghter $ d Elizabeth |_ @pw@@@®® _ | â€" graduating in 1924, she did and the British Isles, and in lin Curry anb n :; theinx | *E _ > %p |â€" some general duty nursing, many places in Canada and Ross. She was I ‘i{ towme t s :n "ke w but mostly she worked as a the United States. newlyâ€"built brick home i Em M j private nurse until she was _ Until recently she lived Forester‘s Falls, the second Te o de [ 1d ith hn s rest ie uf keeen Al 323. . 2 seventy years old. _ wit er younger sister, child in a family 6 $ * "I cfi ie % , She joined the Ladies‘ Elizabeth, who celebrated namely Catherine R?\?l & 6 Femener £* . Orange Benevolent Assoâ€" her 90th birthday in July Thra%her); (Ali:gl:’ ons *"" 1. _ _ | clation, Lodge 224, when 1992. Laughena DIr. @" Wls she went to Ottawa. There _ She has been a subscribâ€" David; Elizabeth, R.N. (Dr. _ R TEdF she has been a staunch and er to the Cobden Sun for | Harry B. Kidd); Laughlin, active member for over seâ€" the past seventyâ€"two years | and James. ol h venty years. Now unable to and looks forward to keepâ€" } They _ were s .%rmes a attend the meetings, she ing up with the local news g-mndchlldre}l °h Ga]le â€" now keeps in touch withthe in and around Forester‘s Ross and Efll::\bg"éoflai 3 {6 Effie Curry members. She is a life Falls each week. who came BR netaios ofi t ut es t