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on the North Shore and
hence must remain accoun
able in the current situation

Although the consulting
team did not review Lions
Gate Hospital operations, the
team says that the hospital’s
ability to fulfil its acute care
mandate will be jeopardized
if the situation is not fixed.

The battle between doc-
tors and the North Shore
Health Region began when
the provincial gove

iled its regionalization
process nearly five

Under Victoria’s “
to home” strategy, Lions
Gate Hospital's clected board
was folded and responsibility
for the hospital was trans-
ferred to the appointed
North Shore Health Region
board.

The board-appointed
CEO, Inge Schamborzki, was
an unpopular choice with
doctors, but doctors said they
would try to work with her.

However, any goodwill
vanished when Schamborzki
dismissed popular hospital
administrator Lynette Best in
April 1997 in what was billed
as a cost-cutting move.

Doctors and hospital staff
said at the time they had no
confidence in the board and
asked that Schamborzki, be
fired.

But in the summer of
1997, the board renewed
Schamborzki’s contract for
three years. Representatives
who sat on the board for
both doctors and unionized
hospital staff protested by
vacating their board seats.
Since then, communication

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beeween the medical staff and
the board — two of the
region’s most important
health bodies — has been in
writing only,

Health = Minister Jov
MacPhail appointed the con-

Iting team to review the
doctor-board relationship
and recommend options to
resolve the dilemma.

Currently, the — beard
decides policies and
Schamborzki tries to imple-
ment those policy decisions.
Board = chairman — Diana
Hutchinson, who did not
return News calls for this
article, stated previously the
board has confidence in
Sckamborzki and she has
managed the region they way
the board wants her to.

Hospical staff say
Schamborzki is too influen-
tial in controlling access to
the board and determining
directions taken by the
board.

Even though consultants
state leadership changes must
be made, they recommend
that current Icaders be given
a chance to see if they can
take the actions required to
improve regional relation-
ships.

If not, then moves should
be made within the medical
staff and board leadership,
said consultants.

Consultants acknowledge
that the “limited strategics”
discussed with the team dur-
ing its research in the region
are not adequate to address

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ouptanding issues. Those
issues include the breakdown
A communication, the per-

cd “autucratic and divi-

sive™ management style of

Schamborzki, and too few
administrators at Lions Gate.

While doctors and hospi-
tal staff criticized the board
and Schamborzki for their
lack of vision for the hospital,
the board said doctors and
staff don’t: fully appreciate
board actions taken to pian
and implement the regional-
ization pro

The board savs medical
staff don’t fully understand
provincially legislate Sy
responsibilities and autho
ies of the board and physi-

The review team called
the hospital staffs strong
sense of alienation from the
rest of the region a natural
reaction whenever an institu-
tion loses its independence.
Doctors continue to work
under the Lions Gate

n cited

Hospital medical staff bylaws,
which are not recognized by
the North Shore region’s
board.

Consultants sav overbur
dened hospital administra-
tors, specifically chief admin
istrator Stewart: Madill, need
more help now.

Currently, the region's
leaders are loathe to speak on
the issue und] MacPhail
makes an announcement that
could come today, said a min-
isiry spokesman who called
the — censultants’ — report
alarming.

Dr. Peter Richards, rhe

ident of the hespital’s
inedical staff, said she
wouldn’t comment beyond
saying he's pleased with the
report.

“It confirms the fact that
the disaffection with the

=O extends from the top of
the organization to the bot-
tom — and nor just with the
doctors.”

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Police acted with caution

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Christmas thar involved
thieves posing as postal carri-
ers. An abduction and
attempted extortion last
Saturda

also believed to be linked to
the group arrested.

Drennan said this group

invaders

ly target

seniors as has been the case in
previous incidents.

The police spokesman
said aprroximately 60 police

wore involved in the

The suspects were

armed dunng t
home invasions so police of B-
cers used extreme caution
during the arrests.

“We were not prepared to
take any chances with any-
one’s safety,” said Drennan.

She said that two couriers
at Park Royal who were
handcuffed by police were
unfortunately in the “danger
zone” area of the arrest. The

couriers went to the ground
“which doesn’t look good
from our end” and started
dialing frantically on cell
phones, said Drennan.

Drennan said that police
were conducting simultane-
ous arrests and did not want
suspects alerting other sus-
pects by cell phone about the
arrests.

The majority of th
arrested face charges of
napping, forcible contine-
ment, robbery, extortion,
wearing a disguise with intent
to commit a crime, using a
firearm in a crime, break and
enter, auto theft, possessing a
prohibited firearm and pos-
sessing stolen property.

Drennan said the police
followed the couple to the
north entrance of Park Royal
Shopping Centre’s north
mall and nabbed them at
2:30 p.m., the time arranged
for the arrests. Police
Emergency Response Team
members were deployed.

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