* - Dace’ report | lists health care @ deficiencies o HEALTH AUTHORITIES remain committed to" add. -- . “ing 10-beds at Mills‘Mem- ' . orial Hospital - but. when - . ov and’, how that will, -happen : 2. IS Still undecided. : a ‘The: ‘éommititment, ‘nade - ~AWo years “ago ‘as: partof.a"- three-year bed plan: for-the :. Morthern Health Authority,” ‘ avould “result” in boosting - the ‘number of: acute’ care’ ; eds from: 25. ‘to 35, ‘Mills: oe qlso_ has. up: io four’ inten-’. _.. sive. care-unit (ICU), beds ~ yi os sand there’s another :10. in ‘its, regional "poychiatle unit... . other, factors’ that will help- AS Move” to” that: plan,” _~ Says ~Suzanne™ Johnston 2 who is: in. “charge of -the ‘northwest varea forthe Northern Health ‘Authority. “Right low ’we are. fo: a “Bussing ° ‘our-efforts on the”
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V8G.1X7% ; “ funeral Service Phone 635-2444 s Fax. 635-635-2160 | Assocation “2d hour Paget - Dr. R:D: Greenwood ~ JUST. OVER t two | years ago | health. fficials announced ¢ a plan to add 10° beds > 2 PHtince: Rupert’ Regional Hospital: has resulted vin, tae “yolves? Spending” ‘$1.3 ‘mil-- _” Hon to move the ICU from _ upstairs. to a“ location: bee ~ *§ide the. emergency. room: and to renovate. the: emer: - o gency: room: itself. . Johnston. Said. officials,“ ‘Also want: to: hire a répla- : cement’ for recently-retired ‘nursing : -director. Marg. Pé- aur trick: before advancing. on, ~-”. plans to add:beds. ~~. os - Although: there” is: ‘ho. ‘budget. figure on what 10. “new. beds ‘will cost, John-:-: : yston: said ‘it’ could: happen. : to bys changing the: away the ©. hospital - ‘works now. to iN -Mnake-it: more efficient: ‘and. fost. effective. nes She ‘said a just-comple- * “f ted redesign. ‘of. services -at _ better care. : One’ of | the tnain. ingre- s dients: 10° ‘adding ° béds As: “©. finding the ‘nurses ‘to staff : them, -but Johnston-is-con-—- nurses fident. ‘additional canbe found. {Tm thinking that if by. . “magic” we had-10. more: ‘beds: right away,” we: could : said” — —_ do ‘that’ with. nurses,” no “Yes,. we: stilt ‘have: van om ‘cancies, “but we “could. gels ‘them, |.We. are doing very , well with our. reeruitment,” : she: added. : ~The renewal: of’ the. bed et ‘ I 2003, asurvey of Lakelse. Lake revealed low levels af juvenile sock « : addition’ plan: al. Mills’ _comies at-a time when B.C, ° ~ ~ focus’: on reducing: “waiting > lists. 2 : with his re-election. “The ORs are there; the: 7 : - beds are- there and: the’ sur: “ geons are there,” said: Ap: pleton about: reducing wait a admissions: “SE mi ‘not vsaying. we: need. the ‘number: of. beds we had-in’ ‘the: “past. “but we need more: than: we have - : “at Mills. Memorial Hospital: No beds have been added yet, ‘but. health. officials. s coe say they a are stil working o on it. REBECCA COLLARD PHOTO ° * ‘He’ 1 now: ‘be able. to put « .. ee He ‘said more “beds are. “needed - at Mills. but. that |): - modern | thedicine has -re=" duced pation stays. and _ 4635 Lazelle Ave, Terrace, B. Cc 638-8165. : OPEN MONDAY 10 SATURDAY ~ | iteasier and more cord | to have your vision tested in. [check your vision an provide” -: you. with corrective lenses in a. 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Northwest Fishing ae Brought . : woe STAND RD . — . KS cae . oo ( ADVERT .. ‘pandes Me and our’. ‘sporsors: “ Free-Maps_ eee o bf mater Tiere | isa a-well 1 develop provincial,” a ‘park.on the north and eastern shore'of |. ». Lakelse* ‘Lake:: “The park:consists of.’ “three ”- geparate.”. -sections—-Gruchy's *. ‘Beach; Lakelse Lake Picnic Arca; and’ ‘Furlong Bay Campground. The park is, Surrounded dy “the mountains of the .. Kitimat’ Range, and | stands of old: fi -erowih forests. we eye salmor in the lake. The survey. was Jan Maxwell : sree of: Lake c “carried: out by Fisheries, and. Organs. ! 2 Watershed. Society, identifies the inva” nd. dolly coe a . - t : doctors - reledised | a-- teport. _ swell as raiabosi Wout, : ston. of canadian pondweed:and ‘1he | : ‘tion . outlining -deficiericies “in. - ’ physician | ‘supply. and: ‘hos-. - . _pekeye sins ‘A System in. Distress by . “monly, rofened to 2 pital services os the. B. <: Medical - Associa-" ‘concludes; ‘the: north: - west. ‘lags: ‘behind? other a northern. areas. when _ worse . off .than: ihe resl of. ‘the province. . “It® says - the aarthwest” has: fewer acute and: long... ~ tem’ care, beds: than ‘other places.” ‘and , fewer: ‘home * support ‘and... direct care: _ © clients.-per “capital . ‘com- . pared” to other. locations... : “) - Shortages: of health’ care ‘of the’ physicians contac- ted: say ‘there: are. excessive, “waits. in " emergen¢y.rooms. f physicians- report, signi s., deant’ difficulties in; dig- i charging. hospitalized pa- tients to:lonig’term care. fa-. cilities,” ” the: study’ says. | we yay led op with ‘one--. third of ‘medical specialists s in--the “northwest saying . . emo ' - “TEMPO GASBAR| ” ow The’ study: does say phy ‘ sicians- feel there is salis- they: are contemplating ‘re- -.. ‘tirement™ within ‘the - ext 7 five. years.” Spe “factory access Lo: operating " AS"is the case se through 7 author offi recent § rv pects a freshwater s comes. to” “health-care: and “sible for the'decline * that’ the north.; itself is -- © persorinel: were: also’ listed. “asa problem: and fully half..." ‘eo “northwestern. “One: hundred pér. cent A clear. warming. signal » a FOOMS © but’ that the access 7 aor vis: still: inadequate. 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