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 change.?!-— =+ scr ‘ 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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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,

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