Al2 - Wednesday, April 28, 1982 - North Shore News

DISMAL NEWS is delivered at press conference given by Lions Gate Hospital

executives. Pictured left to right are Chief of Staff Dr. Werner Pankratz, Board
Chairman Ken Bruce and Administrator John Borthwick. (Ellsworth Dickson photo)

LGH ‘bleeding to death’

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Hospital Administrator
John Borthwick told the
News: “Our problem is we
are bleeding to death.

“We are spending a little
over $10,000 a day more
than we are taking in so if we
don't lay off'some of our staff
very rapidly we are going to
have to lay off even more
people to get to a break even
point.”

Borthwick said he felt
angry about the short time in
which the hospital had been
given to respond to the
government's order for
budget cuts. “It is very short
but if we wait it just makes it
worse.”

Like hospital board
chairman Bruce, Borthwick
questions the rationale of the
government slashing health
care.

“We are not like Mac-.

Millan Bloedel, our sales
aren't down. There are just
the same, if not more people
knocking on our door to
come in. I know as the

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waiting list gets longer
everyone is going to get
angrier, waiting for surgery
to alleviate their pain.”

The closure of 55 beds
throughout the hospital will
cut the total number of beds
available to 401, which the
200 physicians using the
hospital describe as “totally
unacceptable”.

Full effects of the staff
layoffs will not be felt until
June. Staff cuts will be made
throughout the hospital and,
complying with union
practice, it will be the most
recently hired who = are
chopped.

Borthwick says he fears
the bitterness of the moves
will be reflected by staff on
the job. “You can't have this
kind of major unheaval
without ill feeling.”

Even so, Bruce promises
the community: “But with al!
this we wish to assure
patients that once they are in
hospital their care will not be
compromised in any way.
We will continue to maintain
the highest possible
standards in Lions Gate
Hospital.”

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