ate Hospital Wehectey June 25, 1986 _ 6:30 P.M... , Hons Gate Hospital “The Annual General Meeting of the North and West Van- “couver Hospital Society will be held at Lions Gate Hospital, 15th and St. Georges, North Vancouver, B.C. on the 25th day of dune, 1986. Registration will begin at 6:15 p.m. The Chairman will convene the meeting at 6:30 p.m. and will im- mediatély declare a recess until 7:30 p.m. which will permit members to vote for candidates to the Board of Directors prior | to recommencement of the meeting. -Members must vote between 6:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. No “ballots will be issued after 7:30 p.m. . |. Nominees to the Board of Diroctors will not be speaking . at the Annual Genesal Meeting but may be heard on a special presentation by Shaw Cable, Channel 10 on dune 24. paisa tert) 27 - Sunday, June 22, 1986 - North Shore News June 1986 New Starcam in LGH's Nuclear Medicine uses non-invasive procedures to obtain very accurate diagnostic: : information. - A celebration of service “Lions Gate Hospital celebrated its Silver Anniversary this Spring. Twenty-five | years ago on April 22, 1961, a local the opening of the North ‘Shore's “ultra: The building — which had taken 12 years to plan and con: ’ struct — and its equipment cost more than $5 million, The - # equipment in the five operating theatres was the most modern in the world and 4,020 surgical were forecast for ~ the first year. The 150,000 volt diagnostic.x-ray units were the first in British Columbia and capable of performing that year’s expected 15,000 x-ray examinations. Modern technology included a pneumatic tube system that carried messages, X-rays and medicine from floor to floor and to the laboratory. The estimated dail cost of running the 283-bed hospital was $5,200 — or $1,872 a year, In 1961, LGH was a modem, efficient new-hospital with state-of-the-art equipment, serving a community of 85,000 peo- > ple. LGH is still a modern, efficient hospital providing quality health care with highly ‘trained personnel and the latest technology. But, just as the times and our North Shore com- munity have changed, so has the hospital in.many ways. The siumbers have certainly changed! It takes more than $153,G00 to operate LGH every day — $58 million a year. Laser surgery and micro-surgery are frequent procedures now and last year 14,672 operations were performed.in the hospital’s seven operating theatres, Almost 7,000 of these were carried out under LGH’s day care surgery program inaugurated in 1979 where the patient enters the hospital in the moming and returns home the same day. The explosion in technology has brought dramatic changes —- one of the most dramatic in the X-ray department which has been transformed into the Department of Diagnostic Im- aging Services embracing radiology, nuclear medicine and ultra- sound, Highly accurate information can be obtained rapidly and painlessly by revolutionary equipment such as the CT Sean. Demand for the diagnostic and monitoring services of these non-invasive procedures is enormous. Last year, Imaq- ing Services performed 71,761 procedures. This explosion in technology and procedures has had an impact on every area of the hospital — ultrasound monitors difficult pregnancies, lens implants restore sight, arrays of lab tests are performed in minutes, hip joints are replaced. A com- puter system co-ordinates patient records, handles the enor- mous flow of information and makes possible direct, immediate communication between nursing stations and support services such as radiology and nutrition services. : etsy ad delay of mca ove as focused and concentrated: Within such familiar cai@gories as |” Internal Medicine and Surgery are an ever increasing sumber community’s needs “When the new hospital opened its doors in 1961 j goal was to provide the community with high quality health care. It also attempted to anticipate future needs. The hospital's ar- chitects were asked to design a 283-bed hospital, that could | be expanded later to 550 beds, on a cramped site adjoinin ng . the existing North Vancouver Hospital. They came up wi the first double-corridor hospital plan in Canada with room for the service cperation to expand horizontally and the nurs- . f ing wing to expand upwards into two shelled- ‘in floors which were completed in 1965. ~ 1 As the North Shore population has grown, ‘Lions’ Gate Hospital has kept pace with its health care needs and in- novative measures have been taken to provide these services within the framework of available. space and funds. A walk through the wards of our hospital today shows that the pa- | tients themselves have changed in the last 25 years. There { no longer is room for everyone; many of today’s patients re- quire one-on-one, round-the-clock intensive care from specially trained nurses. The length of stay for some pxtients — mater- § nity and some types of surgical patients, for example — Is much shorter. Many patients, who would have spent days in § hospital, are now treated as outpatients without even being f admitted overnight. Lions Gate was a pioneer in developing an ambulatory care program of medical and surgical day care services to provide [- altematives to expensive inpatient hospital care. In 1979, LGH | was the first hospital in Canada to open a Medical Day Cen- 7 tre designed for the exclusive use of day hospital programs. Many patients can avoid a stay in hospital or be discharged early and attend day programs at the Centre. Health educa: ] tion and preventive medicine can also be incorporated into the’ day programs.