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Palliative. Care offers

room, a former single.
room on the medical-

oh Mills - “Memorial
Hospital _ ‘Nursing

service’” ‘coordinator surgical ward will be —
Crispina Cote is in covered by donations.
the process of estab- The $16,000 specially

designed bed for the
Palliative Care room
was donated by the
Women’s Auxiliary of
Mills Memorial. The
bed is electrically
powered and all the
patients will have to
do is push buttons to
raise or lower. all

lishing a Palliative
Care room at the
hospital, a room she
hopes.’ will open
sometime in June.

_ A Palliative Care
room is used. by
terminally ill
patients and is set up .

.for the utmost
convenience of the parts of the bed. The
patients. and their —————— ste a —— Terrace chapter of 7
families. Patients on _ the B.C. Old Age :

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the Palliative Care . . Pensioners Organiz- A .
list will be able to a oe ation has donated . 'f

enter the hospital. anytime, with- in line for it, $1,000 which will go-towards the rte
out having to go through admit- Cote says . she has visited purchase of a colour TV, a VCR ae

ting first, and will be able to go —- Palliative Care rooms'in.Chilli- and a radio-cassette player. E

home anytime they want without wack, Smithers, Vancouver andis Speedy Muffler has donated a iF

getting a discharge order from always looking at other facilities refrigerator and the 1991 Miss
their doctor. It gives the termi- and what they are doing. She ‘Terrace Pageant donated $200
nally ill patient the freedom to says that. whatever is applicable which will go towards the pur-
come and go as their condition to this hospital can be adopted chase of a microwave. The Skeena

warrants. If they want to gohome into practice, as well as using Junior Secondary School Textiles ;
for a few days they will know the ideas from within the hospital. class will be donating a quilt to i
room is being kept for them. If _ The bottom line is doing what is cover the bed. The. Downtown |
however, the patient wants to go best for the patient and the com- _—_ Lions Club has donated $500, and
home for a week or so, the room munity. —— Cote says they are still receiving '
‘would be given to the next person The entire cost of redoing the donations. .

36 Terrace Review — May 8, 1992

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