3 - Wednesday, March 20, 1985 - North Shore News Auto.............13 Business..........19 L ‘ : oe : me Entertainment ..... 22 : ap Lae f YT aves vag oe tae 4 Fashion .......... 25 a on living............45 BARGAINS: 42 Sport .........24.16 Barb HicCreadie goes To. c eee eeee ones 58 shopping to put on a THE LOOK: 25 Our spring fashion supplement has ideas for Public should be more ry | Mainly cloudy with showers aware of wife assault WGO............ 20 Wed. Mostly cloudy Thurs. ecaner warm weather dressing. LG guests. borbewe and entertain still cares for patients FUNDING CUTS at Lions Gate Hospital more than two years ago have decreased staff and acute beds, but the efficiency hasn’t suffered. LGH will end its fiscal with a automate too much in the way of patient care.”’ The big change that has made LGH just as efficient with less staff and fewer beds is the shortening of a surgery has made a great difference in savings. Where day surgery used to account for 20 to 30 per cent of all surgery, it now accounts for nearly 50 per cent, Bor- forum agreed. HOSPITAL GETS A RAISE HEALTH CARE was given a booster shot with a five per cent increase towards,’’ Borthwick says. ‘‘Hospitals, pay- ments to physicians and By BARRETT FISHER | year March 31 : : ——— $750,000 to $1 million defi- patient’s stay, and an in- thwick says. Thursday when the pro- public health care. How : “We're running a leaner, cit, but Borthwick says a creased intensity of care by To accommodate daycare vincial budget was pass- they’re going to be ; tighter organization now,” surplus was accumulated two © staff. surgery, a daycare wing was ed. allocated, we don’t * says hospital administrator years previously which “We began to change added to Licns Gate know." John Borthwick, ‘‘so the should cover the deficit. gears quickly,” Borthwick Hospital five years ago. The Lions Gate Hospital Borthwick did feel, hospital service hasn't suf- fered — although the laid- LGH's operating costs are $150,000 a day, about a mil- says. “It took awhile, but we adopted shorter lengths of added section takes about 25 surgery patients daily, and towards administrator John Bor- thwick says it is very dif- ficult for him to comment though, that “the slight increase is a positive sign. Last year health was one ; off workers have.’’ lion a week, and about stay and we have more in- other beds go . Fifty-five beds were put $55,000,000 a year, Bor- hospital education. So today treating patients recovering as yet since the health of the few ministries that . out of commission and the thwick says. we're admitting just as many from heart disease, strokes, budget has not been got an increase as well. : L equivalent of 144 full-time Eighty per cent of ex- people in 401 beds as we did back problems and diabetes, broken down. So it shows that they (the staff were laid off more than penses go towards labor in 456 beds. We've just sped Borthwick says. ‘“‘There are three Foe ae taking'a look ai health. Ap cere atenet REE eye OF Vcr ene ate pene meet n Ph ext gases pment > two years ago, Borthwick explains. costs, he continues. ‘‘It’s a service industry. You can’t up the machinery.’’ An increase in daycare “It saves money and staff tine. ”” categories funding will go NEWS photo lan Smith LONSDALE Quay consiruction is prog- ressing in leaps and bounds, changing the !ook of North Vancouver’s water- front from industrial wasteland (to com- mercial beauty. The building develop- ment in the foreground contrasts the recent B.C. Place development in the background.