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The North Shore
Volunteer Action Centre is
the central coordinating unit
for volunteer programs of
every kind throughout the
North Shore.

It operates on an impartial
basis, not favoring any one
agency. Its major purpose is
to promote volunteer ac-
tivities and citizen  par-
ticipation - particularly by
helping to recruit volunteers
for the many organizations it
serves.

The following is a short list
of current needs. For further
information and a

per-
sonalized referral call the
Volunteer Centre at 985-
7138:

Friendly Visitor. Mr. “K” is
85 years old, lives atone and
is lonely. He would like to
visit - a friend. There are
others like him. Visitors and
other helpers are needed by
the Long Term Care
program of the North Shore
Health Department.
Photography Buff needed to
arrange photo album of
community school activities
also to help organize shdes
for visual presentations.
Lunchroom Aides required
for special school program
for severely handicapped
children. Patience and
empathy important
characteristics for these
volunteers.

Pianists, Guitarists,
Drummers, in fact any kind
of insturmentahsts to en-
tertain in local private
hospitals. Weekly practices.
Have fun and provide en-
joyment.

Corrections Volunteers to
interview people who need
bail and are in a pre-tnal
position. Car necessary.
Retired Librarian would be
an asset to set up catalogue
for prison library. Time at
volunteer's convenience

Te CU?

“Long Term Patients are
occupying too many acute
beds at Lions Gate Hospital”
reports Dr. James Corbett,
medical coordinator. There
are about 65 beds being used
regularly by patients who
really should not be in the
hospital. As a result, waiting
lists for elective surgery
continue to be lengthy.

According to Dr. Corbett
there are 1,700 patients on
the surgical waiting lists.
Fortunately, anyone needing
urgent or emergency
treatment will still be ad-
mitted at once.

When asked what can be
done, the medical coor-
dinator asks patients and
their relatives to be. as
helpful as possible in getting
relocated. Some famihes, he
points out, are so choosy
that it 1s almost impossible to
locate their relatives.

Another simple way to
make beds available, he
adds, is to cooperate and
leave the hospital as early as
possible on the day of
discharge. In this way
patients coming in_ for
surgery can be prepared to
have their surgery the
folowing morning.

There are many other long
term problems associated
with the availability of acute
beds. Dr. Corbett says you
may gasp each week on
reading of ever higher house
prices but you probably
don't think of the reper-
cussions on the availability
of a hospital bed.

With escalating real] estate
values, many young people
and particularly those with
young- children, simply
cannot afford to live on the
North Shore. They migrate
to Coquitlam, Richmond,
Surrey and other less ex-
pensive communities. But
the North Shore population
is not shrinking - those
young people are being
replaced by older citizens
who are presumably more

able to afford our high
prices. And _ hospital
statistics show that those

over 65 have an average
length of stay more than
three times greater than the
hospitalized population as a
whole. More patients with
longer stays mean fewer
beds are available.

Although the North Shore
has more than 900 long term
care beds they are full and
people who could move into
them are “damned back”
into the 456 acute beds at
L.G.H.

Dr. Corbett) adds yet
another comphcation. Some
private operators are selling

their eight and ten bed
facilities because it has
become much more

economic to sell at a high
price and enjoy the high
interest rates their bonanza
can command. However, he
adds, that means there will
be fewer places than ever for
those long term care cases

now occupying those
precious acute beds at
L.G.H.

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LGH battling serious bed shortage

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