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Friday, December 3, 1993 —- North Shore News - 14

ealth restructured

to provide a community focus

A QUIET revolution has been taking place within North
change its focus to one based on
working with neighborhoods to meet community health

Shore Health that will
needs.

Under the direction of the
North Shore’s medical health of-
ficer Dr. Brian) O'Connor, the
health department has im-

plemented a restructuring that will
bring it in line with some of the
changes anticipated under the
planned regionalization of the en-
tire provincial medical system.

“It has been the health depart-
ment's initiative to become more
responsive to the community...
(in future) we could provide a
useful model for others to look
at,’’ O'Connor told the News,

The restructuring of North
Shore Health, a $10-million-a-

year operation with 150 full-time
and up to 50 part-time employees,
in any layoffs,

should not result

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said O'Connor.

Thus far the department has
already re- organized itself into
teams of health specialists who
will focus on the needs of a par-
ticular community.

The North Shore Health
re-organization involves the provi-
sion of services to four decen-
tralized geographic areas and [4
neighborhood clusters:

@ the West Vancouver area con-
tains four neighborhood clusters;
@ North Vancouver Cily contains
three neighborhood clusters;

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tains four neighborhood clusters
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couver District contains three
neighborhood chusters,

Four North Shore Health area
directors will develop close con-
nections with agencies and
organizations within their neigh-
borhood areas,

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will take place over the next two
years.

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include the
child and

to remain centralized
North Shore Health
adolescent program,
speech and language — services,
travel and immunization and
communicable disease information
and a senior public health inspec-
tor to take calls from the public
and act as a troubleshooter,

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and programs will also remain
centralized.

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