A12 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, January 31, 1996

Jobs, bed cuts getting

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What could be a final
layout of how to centralize
the wards on the hospilal’s
main medical services floor
is duc this week,

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tralize services and cut costs
in anticipation of having its
provincial grant reduced by
as much as $500,000 this
year,

But the hospital’s govern-
ing society must still give
approval to any cost-cutting

close off what is now the
pediatrics ward,

Those beds will be maved
closer to the ones in the
other wards,

There’s no firm number
on how many beds will be

many jobs will be lost.

Option & not only calls for
centralizing the various
medical wards but also to
centralize nursing services
to one main station.

And if that happens, there
won't be a necd for as many

fect to service delivery,”
she said.

Power added that health
care systems are changing in
view of advances in care
and in revenues available.

**Nobody else has nine
head nurses for a 42-bed fa-

plan. cility,’”’ she said.
And, says — Terrace Cul from the 42 beds on the We're looking for co-
Regional Health = Care main medical services floor gyeration and  understand-

Society chair Olga Power, it
won't do so at the risk of
losing services or
specialists.

“Option 8 looks viable
but we're still waiting for a
final version,”’ she said,

Option 8 includes renova-
tions that will, for exampie,

From front

but Power says it'll be be-
tween seven and nine.

That means there could be
as few as 33 beds on the
Tevamped medical services
floor.

Not included in the above
calculations is the 10-bed
psychiatric unit,

ing.”

Power said that, on aver-
age, 25 beds are occupied
among the 42 now avail-
able.

“We will still have room
to use more beds should that
become a necessily (under
Option 8),"’ she continued.

Mayor urges ‘no’ to cuts

Giesbrecht, whose taken a lot of heat late-
ly over the issue of health care from local
doctors here, says the same dire fears were
raised a few years ago when the hospital
was being cut down from larger numbers of

beds.

‘‘Nabody has phoned my office in the last
three years and complained about not get-
ling a service or about having to go south

for a service,”’

The only people complaining, he adds,
are the doctors, who find it easier and more
convenient to make money the more beds

there are.

“They don’t have to schedule elective
surgery around the availability of beds, It’s
easicr for doctors to make money.”

But even in the medical communily, he
notes, the outlook is positive, More new
specialists are moving to town this year,
aud local doctors are laying out $6 million
to build a giant five-storey medical clinic

on Park Ave.

‘What bothers me is that the medical
profession is threatening that some of them

will leave if they don’t get

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Giesbrecht said.
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that they've invested in, and they’re not
going to leave,.”?

“And if they do, the situation for beds is

“They’ve got a multi-

anywhere else in the pro-

“‘T maintain services are not at risk yet,’’
Giesbrecht added.

Terrace Regional Health Care Socicty

chair Olga Power admitted being irked by
the mayor’s slatements,
“This type of approach may undermine

the health care services that are being of-

fered by creating a lack of confidence in the
board,” he said. ‘It was poor timing as far
as I was concerned.”

She noted the board hasn’t yet finalized
its plan to reorganize its wards, but con-
ceded it will likely mean further bed reduc-
tions along with possible job cuts.

Eighty per cent of the time, she said, the

hospital uses only 25 beds. And having the

more beds,’’ Power said.

Support staff in place ta run 42 is not justifi-
able given the current economic climate,

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