Al16 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, June 14, 2000

Health priorities one step
on the path for a new way

A DOCUMENT which out-
lines 18 northwest health
care priorities is just the
first of a three-part effort,
say consultants hired to
write it,

It is now up to north.
wesier doctors to decide
what service should’ go
where, they say.

And after that, the con-
sultants they draft up a
plan to implement what
has been decided. ©

But the consultants
warn that it is still up to
the health ministry to de-
cide what should happen
after that.

Albertan consultants
Sharon Downs and Dorothy
Schiller were in Terrace
June 8 to explain to the

public the first draft of the '
$200,000 plan, which was .

created in hopes of solving
the northwest’s health care
delivery problems.

“The plan will outline
to the ministry what the
priorities are here so they
know what the northwest
wants to focus on,” Downs
said to about 70 people at
the public meeting.

The draft plan was cre-
ated by the consultants
and a steering, committee
of northwest health care
officials.

Some key issues in-

clude:
@ Aboriginal health:
The plan encourages es-

tablishing a working group:
to address the health status:

of aboriginals, which is
significantly poorer than
that of the non-aboriginal
people across the north-
wes.

@ Accommodation and
Transportation: The report
says the cost shauld be re-

duced for people who have ¢ §

to leave home for medical
aid. ;

It recommends re-open-
ing Sleeping Beauty
Lodge in Terrace for short-
term accommodation for
those travelling to special-
ists, and approaching Grey
Hound and airlines to im-
prove scheduling and
providing cheaper fares.

Wi Improve communica-
tion: The plan outlines
how to develop and imple-
ment a plan for community

From front
Plan panned

health care in the north-
west, said George.

Les Watmough, who is
a member of the Terrace
and area health council,
agreed the report wasn't
definitive enough.

“It was a ho-hum
study,” he said. “I really
didn’t see any solutions to
anything in there.”

In particular, he said,
the plan didn’t point out
how to get more money for
ophtalmology which is
only partially financed by
the ministry.

“The report should say
to the government: ‘we
don’t have enough money
to operate services,’” he
said, “If you don’t tell the
government what you
need, it won’t give you
that because they won’t
know,”

Watmough was also
disappointed the report
didn’t deal with orthope-
dics. He expected the plan
ta note where the regional
service should be offered.

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health councils (CHC) to
improve communication to
the public throughout,

“The CHCs do not
communicate very much
with the rest of the folks,”
Downs said.

“There aren’t many
things that deserve to be
secret when dealing wilh
health,” she said.

W Continuum of care:
The report promotes deve-
loping a strategic’ plan {to
identify housing, programs
and service delivery re-
quirements and ta lobby
the government for. more
funding .

@ Coordinated informa-
tion and telecommunica-
tion systems: The plan en-

caurages developing’ a

team to run a consistent,
coordinated information
system throughout the

northwest so information,

and ideas can be shared
back and forth.

WM Coordinated trauma
care: The plan outlines the
need to develop a coordi-

nated way to manage trau-:

ma care in the northwest.
W@ Money: The plan ob-

jective is to pressure and,

encourage the health mini-
try to develop a plan

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_ The lack of this has
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reasons Mills has budget
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@ Home support/home
care: The report states a
need to provide more sup-
port in the community and
establish better linkages
between discharging plan-
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The plan also states
communities necd to in-
crease the number of ser-
vices that can be safely
done in the home, like al-
lowing nurses to do pallia-
tive care and antibiotic
care in the home where its
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@ Human Resources:
The plan supperts develop-
ing a recruitment strategy

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