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Page A2- The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, January 13, 1993

Newbery named

Health care cure sought |

TERRACE — The person Bired
to bring northwest health services
together says he wants to con-
tinve what has already started.

Dr. Peter Newbery, the director
of United Church Health Services
and based in Hazellon, says
nolhwest hospilals aad health
care agencies are already talking.

His appointment follows a

sludy on norlhwest~ health’ care «~

released last Novernber.

It stated moucy could be saved
aud services improved if there
was more co-operation and co-
ordination between the three
norlhwest cities.

“There are. opportunities to see
us as a region.and not as a dis-
parate collection of communities
along Hwy16,’’ said Newbery
last week,

Newbery was named as the in-
terim regional co-ordinator Jan, 6,
He'll stay on until the spring
when a permanent one is hired.

The interim co-ordinator posi-
tion comes from a recommenda-
tion of the study.

Newbery said he’s looking for-
ward to talking with hospitals and
health care agencies.

And he’s also anticipating nail-
ing down his exact job descrip-
tion and that of the permanent co-
ordinator.

Newbery has been director of
the United Church Health Service
for [5 years. His responsibility is
doctors and medical staff in the
Hazeltons, Bella Colla and Bella
Bella.

Although the permanent co-
ordinator may come from outside

Gov't studies _
sand complaints

TERRACE — Every year it’s
the same — cracked windshields
during winter driving from sand
spread for traction.

But this winter, the size of the
nalerial used is the subject of a
study being conducled by the
highways ministry, ICBC and
RCMP.

It was -ordered by highways
minister Art Charbonneau follow-
ing an increase in cracked wind-
shield complaints and in insur-
ance claims made.

“Tam uncertain as to whether
there is a direct relationship be-
tween ihe size of ihe aggregate
and windshield replacement.

claims, but I am asking ...1o0 see .

if the two are related,’” said Char-

bonneau. ;
ICBC statistics indicate the

number of windshield claims has

risen ‘significantly: over the past

three years.

The corporation paid out $49.3
wnillion in 1990, rising to $56.:7
million last year and to $47, 1
inillion to the end of November
this year, a

The 1992 -figure looks lower
and that’s. probably due to a-10
aohetcent.xeduction.in:.glass, cos
ICBC has been able to negotiate ©
with suppliers.

It’s no surprise that northern’
B.C. is the highest area of wind-
shield claims-because af the eng."
thy winter period.up here. -

“The centre- of the glass’ te .

_ placement: business.” has.-'to: be -

Prince. George. We spend more >

money on glass in Prince George.
than any part of the province,’

said ICBC spokesman: Ken Har: .

die,

There are three’ sizes of age.

gregate used on provincial roads,
varying fom half an inch on‘ur-
ban highways and main ‘highways
to three-quarters: of an inch on’
gravel highways."

Sand “is.prone to freezing i in

clumps, depending upon weather ~

conditions, before’ being applied
and salt ‘is used to. help” prevent”
that, - “

The ‘highways: ministry” does”
keep a record of cracked wind-

shield reports but does’ not. aS”

sume liability for replacement. .-
“It’s considered one of the

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hazards associated with winter
driving,"* said local highways of-
ficial Randy Penner.

He said the ministry is taking
samples of aggregate and having
them tested throughout the
winter,

And while drivers may wonder
why the sand mixture contains
large pieces, Penner sald that’s to
ensure there is enough abrasion to
make winter driving safer.

“On highways, if we used
stnaller sizes, it could: be blown
away by large irucks,”’ be said.

the region, Newbery said there is
an advantage to having someone
name from the northwest for now,

“As a family doctor and part of
a group of six doctors bere, I've
had a long association with Ter-
race and Kitimat hospitals and
know something of the dif-
ficultics of organizing health care
in the northwest,”’ be said.

Newbery also took part in dis-
cussions several years ago for ant-
other northwest health care
review,

Action on that review was
Sidelined but with the latest
review and budget cuts have

given hospitals an impetus to.

change things, he said.

“Some additional specialty ser-
vices would mean patients
wouldn't have to go south for
nearly everything,’? Newbery

pointed out.

He noted that the report of last
year’s health care review sug-
gested that the budget woes of
some norihwest hospitals — in-
chiding Mills Memorial — could
be solved by changing manage-
ment practices.

The report indicated thal the

money we are receiving in the

~ northwest should be sufficient but

it pointed to the fact that there are:
better ways of managing the
money,”’ he said. ‘For example
it pointed out that patient stay in
hospitals in the northwest seems
to be longer than average.””
““WhatI suspect is that it is not
fully appreciated ... that a lot of
our patients come from very dis-
tant communilics. A surgeon
might be reluctant to discharge a
palient toa remote location,”’

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