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* STATISTICS

BEDS — Average set up for
the fiscal year « .
Acute : ,
Extended Care and
’ Discharge Planning
- | Total (excluding bassinets)

: Newborn ;

° INPATIENT ADMISSIONS. aN
“Acute 90. 13,846
. Long Term Care 75
Extended Care and .
Discharge Planning ; ‘ 71.
’ Newborn _ . 1,553. -
Total: » . 1555)

PATIENT DAYS a é we
‘Acute. * 7 : 127, 412":
Long Term Care ; 'B, 839
Extended Care and ., . .

» » Dtscharge Planning
Newborn °- ; ;

“Total .

Jaboratory performs p ‘to eight differen tests per "blood _ eee aoa Be fiscal y Breed ” arin
te'on | the: com uter screen along with 3 a printout. . Ste Reute

ta'slabckatory automates ands on ee
8¢ procedures suich'as blood and urine tests; Plans call for this’) {o= Nl ¢
Saar a een 0 he entre aboralory and connected Py Eee
‘EMERGENCY F PATIENTS
| PHARMACY.

‘Ut of prescriptions)

puted polenta} and’ ‘patient care systems, The Nursing
stieereqerieat Nona: :

aT aacation of the computerized la ory and pharmacy - ©.
the ‘patient Information system will give nursing sta: |
Negation Sena hehe os

and discharge patients from wards
sterilized dind special supplies from the cen
men! i their terminals.

valuable during at has been a challeigng period for LGH. ;
and for. the health car: industry as a whole. ;
: "doko Borthwick has been lender inthe healthcare manage :
ment profession? He has been'Chairman of the Board of the

+’ Canadian Colle of Health’ Service Executives and is involved

undergone i
procedure at’ the oem
fessional health ‘care and government ‘commit: f

calculating workload unit
f the major routvhases made tesable ot these value’ ha: ‘changed’ ‘dramatically ‘1 mak
ed blood : pressure . cuffs» and “oxygen ‘mete 5% diffic
analyzer and three gastric’ punips; a fibreoptic arthroscope, an
operating* room: tourniquet ® system, /and | wall haneings” to :

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He was recently awarded aii Honorary Life Membership in the
> BCHA‘and was the recipient of one of the first Distinguished
Service Awards from the BCHA Lower Mainland Area Coun
The are West Vancouver Hospital Society has also

y Life Meriber: In recognition of his :

“ha
crnaeee an extensive trip fo Austraiia:
sla,-Mr: Borthwick plans to serve health'care development
zations ‘that work in Third

‘brighten the psychiatric wards.

2 Diiring: the past! year, the Auxiliary: 0'vol
48,454 hours to services such as aaa and senate patos

flowers and food trays,’ ‘escorting new patients to their .

“rooms, comforting and amusing children, knitting fer newborns,

--, giving information ‘to. visitors: and working ‘in..the Dogwood

‘nl 18 gave more’ Candy Siperadels between the pace