COST SLASHING DETAILED Care plan would save seniors a long wait Elderly people waiting up to two years for admittance to Lions Gate Hospital for geriatric care are offered an alternative with either one of two proposals submitted to North Vancouver District Council. All that has to be decided is which of the ideas in- tended for a large site at 19th Street and Mountain Highway council will accept. Either the Canadian Legion or Associated Geriatric Consultants Limited will learn in two weeks which facility will be favoured. Council Monday deferred a decision on the site to permit the Canadian Legion to present its proposal for a non-profit society in- termediate level care facility for the entire site. ; Associated Geriatric Consultants Ltd., represented before council by its president, John Knight, seeks to create an intermediate care facility on a portion of the site. Knight explained to council that the extended care facility at Lions Gate Hospital has a waiting list of two years and that many prospective patients have to be kept in an active hospital setting indefinitely simply because they have nowhere else to go. He described the costs from the situation as being enormous. The same _ desperate waiting situation applies to the intermediate care level, one step below that of ex- tended care, according to More Speculations FROM PAGE A2 tow off our starboard bow gave us something to talk about for five or ten minutes. I lined it up with a stanchion on our boat and watched. Sure enough, our — courses were converging, as evidenced by the fact that the tug remained lined up with the same stanchion and simply got bigger. Sailboats under sail have the right of way over power vessels, except in confined quarters, but I remembered the bit of doggerel about Simon McVeigh, who died defending his right of way, and altered course to pass Aquarium astern of the tug and her tow. Soon we had passed the oily rippling wake of the barge and were back on our rumbline. The wind held up all the way home, allowing us to dodge the log booms off Fisherman's Cove with ease. We luffed up into the wind and dropped the sails, and then motored the last few hundred feet into the moorage. The weather was getting blacker and the wind seemed to be picking up again. As we turned in the basin and came back down the channel to our dock the wind took over, pushing us along at about a know and a half Sale hospital figures, and this condition worsens as time goes by. Alderman Jim Ball, speaking as a member of Lions Gate Hospital board, concurred and favored the geriatric care proposal over the bare outline of the Legion “... even thoughI am also. a member of the Legion”. Knight further explained that there is a constant average of about 45 patients always remaining at Lions Gate Hospital and of these, 75 per cent could be placed in the sort of facility he was proposing. The use of such a facility, he said, would result in a cost saving of $112.00 per patient, per day. without any sails up at alt~<. DOG FOOD PET’S PRIDE CAT LITTER and it was only by dint of dexterous fender-handling on the part of the crew that we managed to get tied up without scraping some paint off “Elissa”, moored astern of us. As it was her plow anchor came close to stripping the netting off our fore deck. But alls well that ends well, and we tied up without further incident. We didn't see another . sailboat all weekend, until we returned on Sunday night and spotted a few sails near Bowen Island. Come on, sailors, buy a dodger for your cockpit from A-1 canvas or someone and get. out there all year round. oO 33 Gallon All Glass Aquarium Our regular tow price - $54.00 Special $3 599 27 Gallon All Glass Aquarium Our regular low price - $45 00 Special $9999 10 Gallon All Glass Aquarium Our regular low price $15 60 While Quantities Last! Special $Q99 GihG A DOU 2038 Park Royal South 926-1217 Gallery West At present, Knight said, the 45 patients occupying hospital beds at Lions Gate are costing taxpayers $1.8 million per year to be kept in a situation should not be in, and denying the use of the active | beds to other patients they | Al13-Wednesday, March 12, 1980 - North Shore News needing hospital care. The group led by Knight plans to create a SO bed facility, with 40 beds in the first phase and a further ten later. 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