* are, in fact, behind: as we

increases shave come within

vaffect
° facilities such. as: the Seven’

A14- The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, March 9, 2005

| Rising c costs bedevil
: ‘northwestern health
Care construction.

SOARING: -CONSTRUC-

_ _ TION: and. ‘labour. : costs:
~ could nearly. double «what |

the Northern Health Author-’ »

"ity (NHA) wants to spend on |
: hospital renovation projects’

here, in Prince Rupert and i in

Smithers.

But the authority remains-

7 committéd to doing the work
which, at Mills Memorial .
; Hospital here, will see ‘the: -
_ intensive care unit moved to

~ beside a revamped emergen- :

‘Cy room, says. official Mark

Karjaluoto. ~~
_ NHA officials are now
forecasting at least 2 $1-mil-

_. lion increase on what was to
. be a $1.25-million improve- —

ment at’ the. Prince Rupert
Regional. Hospital. « - New

costs have yet to determined |.

for the; Mills project, - which °

Was to cost $1.35 million, or
» for work: in- Smithers | esti- °
. mated at $750,000. ‘

Cost implications for call”

a three projects will be dis--
~- cussed at next week’s NHA
- board - ‘meeting, ° said Kar-

“y jaluoto. Le
"2, /“The projects. have been..
» delayed past the original -

start ‘dates,’ he’ said.” “We.

deal with these i issues.”

An NHA plan to go ahead
with all three projects means

- Karjaluoto: said , the’ cost:

the: last’ year and did: not
~recently-completed

Sisters’ adult ‘mental “health

~.- facilitiy here in Terrace. a

‘ “These” increases were

just something we could not :
. anticipate. We’ve had ‘other,
projects, notably Seven Sis-
ters,” complete | within the -
budget,” he said.

_ Should the NHA need.

moming March :4 accident

. that saw six people taken to
~ Mills Memorial Hospital.

. Five people were in a
compact car when it collid-

“Sharon Hartwell
money ‘from outside sourc-
es, it can go to the provincial
government, which provides
it with the majority of its an-

nual operating budget and its
capital spending, budget. -

Those monies account for

Northwest
Regional ‘Hospital District

“ covering ‘the remaining 40
per cent.

Sharon Hartwell, hospital

‘district. chair, ‘said. her 27-

member .’ board ‘consisting

‘of locally- -elected’ officials
from the Queen Charlotte «
- Islands to near Burns Lake

was shocked by the potential

-cost increases.
it will have to come up with -.
.More money from internal or.
other sources. :

‘It has ‘already’ commited

itself. to. $1.34 .million. or

ing northwestern residents

dollars.
“We realize there is acost

to this but the. board"mem- .
_ bers’ are ‘supportive of each. »
“said |

other’s communities,”

Hartwell.

But while the board will
shoulder extra costs, Hart-

occupant was the driver.

* The accident occured at’
‘the corner of Hwy16 ‘and

River Drive in Thornhill at

2:45 a.m. on March 4.

There were two 18-year-

_old people, two 20-year-olds

well has also written “Shir

. ley Bond, provincial health .

_” Services minister, and asked

° her to provide more money »
to cover the impending ad-

ditional costs.
~ “The issue here is really

access to health care: Each .
..of..our communities needs 7

better access,” she said.

Hartwell said’ she’s also

: ‘pleased that her board, re-

‘frained from the idea of
choosing one construction

_ project over another in order .

to compensate for increased
costs.
“That wouldn’t be the

right thing to ‘do. Our board

believes. that an improve-

‘ment in any community’s ©

health care facilities benefits
the entire region,” she said.

~ “It’s all or nothing. And -

2 T give the board: members _

60 per’ cent of construction
‘costs ‘with the

credit for this.”

Terrace. city council-

‘lor Stew Christensen, who

sits.on the hospital . district

board, was also happy with ~ :

the united approach taken by

40 per cent: of the original _
$3.35-million estimate for.
_ the Prince Rupert, Smithers
“and Terrace projects by tax-

_ but is now looking at adding °
hundreds of thousands. more

“Mills Memorial
will see the intensive care -

board members.

. “There was as much call:
with all of the board for the
project to go ahead in Ter-

“race as there is in Terrace

itself,” he said. “There is the

realization. that everybody “
benefits.”

“Tt was ; good to see we are -

all on the same page when it -

.comes.to health care.”

The: planned project at
Hospital

unit moved . down _ beside

'.the emergency room on the °

first floor from the hospital’s

- main ‘medical floor. J

- It’Il:mean that nurses will.
be better. able to respond to ..
Situations: in both units and .
‘it will mean a much shorter:

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