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Terrace Regional Health Care - Society chief executive: officer. Michael | Leisinger said the woman is at the top of the. Waiting list and will be given her “f- Original room ‘when she returns to the lodge. : _. Bhe lost her room because beds aren’t kept open in-' definitely in such facilities when -, patients leave or become sick «for extended periods, Decisions: to discharge patients are made by health ministry assessors, not the lodge. But family and friends of On- nolee Kirkaldy — who came here in 1920 as the town's first postmistress —- say they want the policy responsible changed. Health ministry policy re- quires @ review of the status of patients who are absent more Another Year 200 shift School chan TERRACE —-. The government’s move to shelve most of the Year 2000 education reforms for a year was done too abruptly, says school : board chairman Edna Cooper, “I don't think they did it the right way,”’ she said last week after returning from a meeting of the provincial intermediate grades steering committee, *[ don’t think the cabinet should have made an arbitrary deci- sion,'’? . The announcement that the implementation of the in- termediate and graduation pro- grams of the Year 2000 system will be delayed a year came eatlier this month. than 10 days at.a time. “I’m going to fight this to the end,”’ says grand daughter Heather Kirkaldy. “I’m going to make sure that policy is changed, You've got to be allowed more than 10 days out of there at a time, Otherwise that’s a ‘jail as far ‘as I’m con. cerned.”’ | Health ministry spokesman Graydon. Gibson’. said: Ter- raceview generally . holds pa- tients’ beds for up to a month. Kirkaldy was hospitalized Aug, 28 for elective surgery on her hip, which was broken last December, according to the family, On Sept. 18, a day after her daughter’s funeral, Kirkaldy was told by the health ministry’s assessor she was be- ing discharged from the lodge, The family wasn’t informed first, © =... oo “That's one of the things that angered me the most,’’ Heather Kirkaldy said. ‘She has a “It went against the good faith that was being built up,”’ Cooper said of the announce- ment. Education minister Stan Hagen reaffirmed the govern- ment’s commitment to educa- tional reform, “I will also be establishing a Provincial Educa- tion Standards Board to provide an ongoing focus on standards, accountability and excellence,"* he said, ; Cooper said many people are worried about whether the lack of provincial exams in: the new system will mean lower stan- dards.of education. ; “The average student does the best in our system now, and broken hip. It’s not her fauit she's in hospital, She was totally horrified’‘that she was being kicked out of her home. And I think it set her back a few weeks," , “I wish they’d come to us first instead of someone walk- ing up to her in the hospital and saying ‘You've no longer got a home,’ she said, “We got no notice. And they wanted her belongings out. on that same day "3.4 -. The family moved fier posses- sions out of the room Sept. 20, _ and @ new resident moved in. * Gibson said the demand for beds is such that there is a limit to how Jong vacant beds can be held. In the case of Kirkaldy, he said, she is'still expected to re- main in hospital for more thana month. |: ; “There was quite an urgent demand for that vacant bed,”’ he added. “This was a judg- ment cail on the part of the ad- ge said the ones that lose out are the slower ones and the brilliant Ones,” ‘she says. ‘And the brilliant ones are a loss to our society when we lose them,” "We feel this new system would challenge thase students to the best of their own ability ‘— not just the average,” People have to be told, she said, that there will be in- dividual standards - of ex- cellence, even if those aren't as structured and regimented: as the old provincial standards. She said the government’s move, while hasty, is not necessarily bad, “They. haven't thrown it out,’” Cooper. stressed. CELA ee See OreeT eye ’ Cooper said. a Onnolee Kirkaldy ministrator, and having review- ed the paperwork, it appears to be an entirely logical and reasoned decision.” But now Kirkaldy says her grandmother may end up mov-. ing in with the family, to avoid: the uncertainty of life ‘at Ter-: raceview, es ~My: ~ grandmother - is “so: afraid of this happening: again,” she said. “She can’t: trust them anymore, It’s totally: devastated her.” , . hasty | * “They've said they*re going to slow it down, and they're saying maybe we're trying to go too! fast.”? ot “AS long as the rug isn’t pull- ed out from under us, I think: most people will feel OK about: a slower implementation,” she: added. But she is worried about what's going to happen when Students now in the primary program — which replaced kindergarten through Grade 3: — complete that part of the system and the intermediate program isn’t yet in place. -“‘Ht’s going to. be hard for them to change and catch on to | a completely different system," IDE Need Beet ry yave Yo October 9th, This Guide | ¢ save Your Life. PLAN TO. GET OUT ALIVE. ey | — Extended care eviction | Policy disturbs family