A2 Terrace Review — Wednesday, May 8, 1991.

Hospital gets funds for long-term plan

Long range planning for future growth at Mills Memorial Hospital may soon be underway. Mills

are the relocation of Mills Memor- ial administration offices. The space they now occupy might be

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Memorial has approval in principle from both the Ministry of Health and the Regional Hospital District for a consultant to prepare a long- range facility planning program.

The cost of the study has been estimated at $40,000. with the province paying $24,000 and the regional district $16,000, There is still one hurdle to clear, however. The Ministry of Health can’t give a definite answer until the provin- cial budget is approved.

Terrace Regional Health Care Society CEO Michael Leisinger says good planning is essential.

beiter used for something like outpatient services. There will also be a need in the future to expand services such as radiology, phar- macy, laboratory and medical records.

There is also a considerable amount of unused space on the second floor that will eventually be needed, What for and how those uses relate to adjacent activities, however, are questions that need to be answered now. One idea, says Leisinger, is to use some of that second floor space for administra-

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Only with good planning can future development be imple- mented in a pre-determined man-

ner that will ensuré a successful . operation. The only other option, he says, is to shove new services .

into available spaces and pay no attention at all to how or where the next stage of development might

One area that will probably not require any planning at all, is the old nurses’ residence facing Tetrault St. The Ministry of Health is already considering a funding application for a building upgrade that would see the southern portion of the residence converted to a psychiatric daycare unit. This,

occur. Some of the options the consul- tant would be asked to consider

Teachers —

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The board, she said, had pulled back on their position after being advised that class sizes could effectively be: somewhat larger under the classroom structure of

however, also sits waiting for the province to adopt their 1991/92 budget.

A local community organization has their eye on the remaining north wing of the nurse’s resi- dence. If the money can be found, they would like to convert it into a residence for out-of-town family members of patients brought in from other centres, one more indi- cation of the growth of Mills

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Memorial as a regional health care ’” Gard No. all ane 2000 oe br When the centre, which is also one of the Name a Pee ad. ee le primary reasons we need to do Address Expiry Date concep ‘orwe at the © some long-range planning in Mills Postal Code . Cooper said, “it really upset them yfemorial as well. Mail or bring this form to: [the teachers]... it’s a very sensi- Phone . °

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tive issue." _ At the end of April mediator Vince Ready came to Terrace to assess the situation and found there were stilt too many outstanding items for mediation to be effective. Cooper said the board has taken the view that the talks are still under mediation and is prepared to meet with the TDTA and Ready whenever the union and the media- tor are available.

Cooper said the board wants to keep Ready.in the process because they want to "keep an objective person in the situation”.

The board’s ability to pay for the TDTA proposals is at the heart of

the impasse, Cooper believes. "We have told them their demands are _ beyond the board’s ability to pay, but they don’t believe us," she

said. . .

Brown said the ‘TDTA is not demanding anything that is out of

line with séttleéments of other dis- tticls in the province. —

‘Last week 75 percent of the ‘‘TDTA general membership at a

‘series of meeting across the district “voted to give their executive the power to call a strike.

Terrace district teachers went out on ‘strike in January 1989, when they.were negotiating their present collective agreement. That strike lasted for more than 30 days, a record in the. B.C. school system that was broken later in the year by 4 sitike in School District 92 in the Nass Valtey.

‘Seniors in Terrace and District $30.00 Seniors outside of Terrace and District $33.00 Out of Canada $100.00