A8 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, May 3, 2000 Council renews request for public health care meet THE LOCAL health au- thority than runs the area’s major health care facilities sHill won't meet with city officials, but city council isn’t giving up. oe The Terrace Area Com-~ munity Health: Council: that oversees. Mills Mem- orial Hospital and Terrace- view Lodge .has: for a month and a half refused city cauncil’s requests for a meeting: that would-be-- open to the public. Mayor Jack Talstra said the health council: seems to prefer a private meeting with no media or other local citizens present. “They're very: nervous about an open - public meeting,” mayor Jack Tal- stra said council’s April 25 meeting. “I’m not sure what. we can do about that.” Council voted to conti- nue to push for such‘ a meeling and to continue to last week at’ insist it be open. Pushing for the meeting is the Terrace Health Watch group, a self-ap- pointed citizens watchdog group that has had a num- ber of run-ins with the health council. “To be honest with you, we're exhausted,” group organizer Ida Mohler told “council at the meeting. “She said’ the group’s questions often” go ‘unan- swered and are frequently met with indifference or confrontation by health council members or hospi-’ tal administration. “We need some ex- treme - measures taken here,” she said. -Councilalso voted to call for release of a con- sultants’ report — when it’s completed and presented in June '— on possible reor- ganization of northwest health care. The health watch group Nursing shorta MILLS MEMORIAL Hos- pital has lifted restrictions on admissions now that a number of nurses who were on leave have returned, says its chief administra- tor. Dieter Kuntz said a combination of workers compensation and matern- ity leaves have now come to an end, easing what were shortages. Those shortages caused the hospital over the past year to reduce, at times, the number of beds it could open. That, in turn, resulted in criticisms of the hospital and worries about its abili- ty to function. But the hospital stil! wants more nurses on its casual list who are able to fill in when its staff nurses are umavailable, said Kuntz. ° ’ “They can supplement our coverage and if the census [the hospital's pa- tient count] goes up, they ean back fill,” he said. Kuntz added that sev- eral nurses have recently come into the hospital looking for work, including one trained in intensive care duties who had been commuting to Prince Ru- pert. “We're definitely inter- ested in these people,” he said, kkkk hk And as the hospital deals with its nursing si- tuation, a number of spe- Cialists and general practi- tioners are also on the move for a variety of per- sonal and professional rea- sons. 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They were going to use that to ask local busines- ses to join a letter-writing effort to lobby for a formal efficiency audit of the hos- pital under the auspices of the finance ministry. Talstra said businesses who think their information Tom Nagy is going away for one year and he has al- ready found a person to fill in, said Kuntz. “This is pretty normal. 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