Page A2 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, March 3, 1993

Groups develop

patient care plan

TERRACE — Local health care
officials are working on a plan
with their Nass Valley counter:
parts to cut down on problems
when patients are discharged
from Mills Memorial Hospital.

The goal is to discharge people
‘as soon as they are able in order
to cut down hospital costs yet to
ensure they are properly taken
care of, says Michael Leisinger of
the Terrace Regional Health Care
‘Society,

. “The system is working but
there a few wrinkles that need to
be ironed out,”’ said Leisinger.

He and other members of the
society met with people from the
Nisga’a Valley Health Board last
weck in New Alyansh.

“In the past a person who can
be discharged might not have
been able to get home and so they
have stayed an extra night at the
hospital,’’ said Leisinger,

Now, health care officials are
refining a procedure whereby dis-
charged Nass Valley residents
can slay overnight at a local
motel or hotel until they can
return home.

Such a system should also
' avoid past problems of people not
knowing what to do when they
were discharged, said Leisinger.

He hopes to tap into local

Teachers

TERRACE — Teachers here
will seek mediation in their con-
tract dispute with the school
board long before they consider
any kind of strike action,

“We will not be rushing into
any kind of job action,’ said Ter-
tace District Teachers Union
president Cathy Lambright. ‘It
has not proved productive.”? _

‘Talks are continuing to make
progress, but even if they do fail
Lambright played down the
likelihood of a strike. :

“We would look ata number of
other options as opposed to a full-
scale walkout,’’ she said, adding
“the face of job action may
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‘ Rather than shutting down:
schools, she’. Said teachers might
apply’ pressure through © paper
strikes and ‘non-cooperation with
the administration.

“We will request ‘mediation
long -before any job action ‘is
taken,’’ she added.

Meanwhile, the two sides got a
little bit closer in bargaining last
Thursday.

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MEETING OF THE minds took place when representatives of
the Terrace Regional Health Care Society discussed health Is-
sues with their counterparts from the Nisga'a Valley Health
Board. Among the topics was a better patient discharge plan for
Nass Valley residents,

Nisga’a residents in helping make
the discharge system work better,

‘When you look around, there
are already networks in place. It’s
a matter of co-ordinating all of
them,’’ said Leisinger.

The Nass health board has a
clerk who processes financial in-
formation when residents stay at
motels or hotels and a community
health representative from the
Nass could soon be making regu-
lar trips to Terrace,

The kind of discharge planning
be worked on could result in

‘hiring a person specifically for

that kind of work,
The hospital already sits on a

discharge planning committec.

with local health agencies.

Better discharge planning ap-
plies not only to Nass Valley resi-
dents but to all patients admitted
to Mills, said Leisinger.

He added that the health care
society and Nass health board
have also agreed to better com-
munication when patients are sent
to Mills.

hold off strike plan

The teachers’ union dropped its
wage increase demand to three
per cent — from 3.5 per cent —
in each of two years. The teachers
also gave up any shortening: of
the payscale.

School district negotiators have
not changed their present offer of
a 1.8 per cent pay hike in each
year of the proposed two year
contract.

But they agreed to substantial
changes on the issue of integrat-
ing handicapped children in regu-
lar classes.

Key to. the mainstreaming issue
is the identification of special
needs children, so the classrooms
with those children: can. ‘get addi:
“tonal: “dupport:

“The: province pays for that ‘up to
a maximum of 3.6 per cent of the
children in a district, in the case
of students with severe dis-
abilities,

Terrace has always been well
over the cap and the district must
pay for any additionat hand-
icapped students identified and
then put into a program.

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The board has offered students
they agree should be assessed

will be assessed within 30 days,

That’s a
Lambright said, because in the
past it has sometimes taken all
year before a child could be as-
sessed by a specialist.

She is concerned, however, that
the district could veto assess-
ments of children, and thereby
avoid paying for extra classroom
support,

“If they don’t aSSess them, then
they don’t exist,” she noted,

Just ‘four issues remain on the.
table: salaries, mainstreaming, the _

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professional development, super-
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teacher ‘Partipation on board com-

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teacher input into the assessment .

and evaluation of administrators.
Negotiations resume March 9.

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