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Squamish hospital opens

ANEW $10.7 millions hospital has
officially Opened in Squamish and
will begin admitting patients in
about two months,

Hv KAREN GRAM
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Squamish General Hospital ad-
mimstrator John Dillobough said
the new facility is long overdue.

“(The old building) has been in
bad need of replacement ever since
it opened in 1952,°" he said. ''The
whole building is crumbling
around us."

Dillobough said the new hospi-
tal, built on the same property as
the old, took 10 years to realize.

The toughest job, he said, was
securing funds from the provincial
government. ‘‘We got caught in a
(provincial government)
moratorium on construction of
new hospitals,’’ he said.

Approximately three times the
size of the old hospital, the new
facility will hold 25 acute care beds
compared with 21 in the old, but
Dillobough said support services,
especially emergency, will be great-
ly expanded.

“Considering the (perilous
Squamish) highway, and the ski-
ing, we have our fair share of
emergencies, and we had a hard
fine dealing with them,"' said

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Dillobough

‘We only had oa three bed
holding area, and sometimes gat
six To cight emergencies al a time.
We'd just shuffle them around.”
he said-

The new facility has twice the
holding capacity of the ald haspi-
tal, four treatment roams and two
operating rooms, which
Dillobough said wall camplenrent
the hospital's emergency facilities.

He said he expects to hire 14 to
1S additional support: staff, bur
has only hired one person so far.

“We won't be able to (hire
more) because we don't have the
money yet,’ Dillobough said. He
added that he hopes the moncy will
be forthcoming from the Ministry
of Health by the time the new
hospital opens.

The new facility is the second
phase of a project that began in
1984 when a 38-bed extended-care
facility was constructed. Total cost
was $10.3 million, which includes
$9 milion for the acute care facili-
ty.

Dillobough said the provincial
health ministry contributed 60 per
cent af the cost and the region put
up the rest. Canada Mortage and
Housing guaranteed a loan of $i
million for the eatended-care hos.
pital built in t984

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