re. Peter rere ag TUE TE Tere Te ar eg ee fee Health boss wants € O THE NEW Northern Health Authority is work- ing on a long term care Plan which will transfer patients from expensive hospital beds to other “types of services, says its chief executive officer. Peter Warwick says the intent is not only to save money but to provide the ‘kind of care the patient needs. It'll do away with the current practice of placing elderly people or others who need a certain level of care in hospital beds because there is no where else for them to go. What that does, how- ever, is place a financial, ‘persomne] and bed avail- ability strain on hospitals in. dealing with their role --aS a health care provider, said Warwick. ““Haspitals have people who shouldn’t be there,” he said. “Putting people in acute care beds does not give them the recreational support, the social support, the ‘therapeutic support they need.” Mills Memorial Hospi- tal in Terrace can, at any one. time, have five or more people classified as alternate level of care pa- tients waiting for a space to open up at a more ap- propriate extended care fa- - cility such as Terraceview Lodge. The old Terrace and Area Health Council, which was merged into the Northern Health Authority late last year, had for sev- Peter Warwick eral years tried to get the money for an eight-bed al- ternate care ward. This newest attempt is part of the authority’s three-year plan involving a juggling act to reduce spending yet increase care. In broad terms, the in- tent is to increase com- munity or home care in- stead of institutionalizing people. Yet there are chal- lenges to the concept, said Warwick. “In Hazelton we have a significant number people [in Wrinch Memor- ial Hospital], but we don’t have a lot of infrastructure in the community,” he said. “And we have to do that and still keep in mind the $40 million,” Warwick noted in referring to the amount of money the au- thority will have to cut over three years to avoid a budget deficit, “The devil is now in the Most log exports by West Fraser WEST FRASER has so far been the main forest company taking advant- age of a government order allowing raw log exports in the northwest. Forests ministry statis- tics.as of June 14 show West Fraser has exported 13,000 cubic metres of timber or about 27 per cent of the 47,369 cubic metres it has logged. A total of 20,383 cubic metres, or about 135 truck- loads, has been exported from the region. That's around 19 per cent of near- ly 108,000 cubic metres logged so far. The cabinet order is- sued Feb. 13 allows up to 35 per cent of timber log- ged in the Kalum, North Coast and Kispiox forest districts for the next three years. Although Skeena Cellu- lose officials have said they will export logs to generate short-term cash flow, neither it nor any of its main logging contrac- tors have shown up on the stats so far, Other operators that are exporting include Triumph Timber and CGED Forest Products, at around 3,000 cubic metres exported each so far. Smaller amounts have been exporled by Don Hal- verson and Rick Kasum, the statistics show. LL RESIDENTS - Please have your dog leashed or fenced-in away from your mail boxes on ” Wednesdays and Saturdays J bata —_ THe so your newspaper carrier can deliver your paper, where all of your printing and copying needs are completed with fast service at reasonable prices. 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Those closure announ- cements in areas such as the north Okanagan and the Fraser Valley have been met with protests from patients and family members, They’ve also drawn the attention of Premier Gor- don Campbell who has told health authority chairs he wants them to treat pa- tients in the same fashion as they would treat their own parents, Overall, the province now says it wants to close 3,000 long term care insti- tutional beds in favour of other types of services. But that figure does not include the north in that the Northern Health Au- thority’s plan is not yet ready, said Warwick, The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, June 19, 2002 - A? - §COOBY-DOO FF In Theater his $ UMMoer I eee F em tne When it's time to salve the mystery of what to do for lunch or dinner, ask yourself, “What would Scooby doo?” He'd doo the DQ® Chicken Strip Basket™ With it’s 100% white meat chicken strips, golden fries, country gravy and Texas Toast . . it'll solve even the scariest hunger! 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