dust for Kids 233 | North Shore News special cight-page feature Fire with tire p28 Two exhibits study fire through the ages oes 3h ooo 54 Celebrations , Crosswort Fashion Mailbox North Shore Alert eee 12 , Talking Personais ee 50 : Travel ove 2h ———— ‘Canacan Putacations Mad Sales *2quct Agreement No 0087238 health hot seat By lan Roble News Reporter fan@usnews.com DR. Stewart Madill feels like he’s on the hot seat “to some degree.” That's not surprising. Madill has had the tithe of Lions Gate Hospital chief sdimanistrator added to dus former gue af vice president: of medicine ino the past twa weeks. He's the third administrator the top hospital post na dirde aver aear “Phe fast person an rhe top job, chiet Operauny officer Lynette Best. was fer goin what was official Iytermed a redundancy move “Is beer gute heeme.” satd Madi, who inherts a hospital ata crosseoads. Lions Gate is about to embark on arole review and doctors and ntines are asking toc MadilPs boys North Shore Health Region CEO Inge Schamborzki tu step de See Haspital pane 3 North Shore Health Region brings change WITH the scattered discussions about comm ty health centres, name changes, mishandled finances, leather chairs and controversial dis- missals at local health facilities, the topic of the North Shore Health Region can be befuddling. But what the health region represents to North Vancouver and West: Vancouver residents is very real. [tis now the a that will determine how and wh receive health care on the North Shore. The agency's board, recruited locally but appointed by the provincial goverment, has the power to hire and tire and move around $160 million worth of health-care funding, The board’s plans to reach its goals ofa -ssibiliry, afford ability and quality have just started to make aloud impact on the North She Perhaps you re we DOINGITRIGHT. 3 GAT BEFORE YOUR EYES. 1c, 1790 Marine Dr. North Van 987-8006 -o. ded © heard about the controversial dismissal of Sunday. Clntudy with showers low 3. C Lions Gate chief operating officer Lynette Rest and the strony, largely negative reac tions from hospital statt. heard about the shift to preceding decentralization of public health SCTVICG are being served by the current process have been raised: by opposition MLAs. North Vancouver Sevineur Dan farvis asks why the entire health system on the North Shore has been disrupted unde> the new health repime. He said Wednesday that the wholesale experiment in health WEATHER FOR Toudy with showrrs Tues High 15°C, low 7 C High 15 Prince Charming, seeks Cinderella If the shoe fits p15 NEWS photo Mike Wakefield LIONS Gate Hospital's new chief administrator, Dr. Stewart Madill, is in charge of a health facility buffeted by change. of trans = { al care represented by the New Democrats’ drive to place decision-making responsi- bility tor health care with local boards instead of the Ministry of Health should have been attempted in one region first, rather than across the board. “What happens if this doesn't wo Where do we go then?” said the two-terni MILA. “It's nota very smart way of doing things.” Rut board chairman Diana Hutchinson doesn’t agree. “Pm committed to making it Work,” she said. pointing to countless volunteer hours she’s put in the past four vears on the board. “We were told, and we've got the facts in the Seaton report, thar we have to deliver our health services iia different way,” Sve Community page & AST ay: Clady with shawers C lowed EXPERT PLUMBING & DRAIN CLEANING