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LIONS GATE HOSPITAL

A Caring Community

TAKING CARE OF BUSINESS Bringing Health Care “Closer to Home”

The Royal Commission on Health Care and Costs in British Columbia recommended that the concept of Closer to Home be a guiding premise in our future health system. One of the first steps identified by B.C.’s Min- ister of Health in her blueprint for the future entitled New Directions for a Healthy British Columbia was to establish health regions throughout the province. The North Shore has been defined as one region, and under. the newly introduced Bill 45, a new North Shore Re- ‘gional Governing Board will be empowered with the authority to receive and disperse furds and approve health programs.

Robert J. Sniith President & CEO

A New Vision

| Lions Gate Hospital and the North Shore Union Board of Health have used publicly

administered local governing boards for many years. Other health service providers -the ambulance service, mental health care, aicohal and drug services, etc. - have been overseen directly by the Ministry of Health in Victoria. As the Regional Governing Board takes charge of our local health system and embraces the philosophy of Closer to ‘Home, all health service providers will come under the new system of governance. It is

envisioned that, with the new legislation, the 2 governing | boards of Lions Gate Hospital

and the North Shore Union Board of Health may no © longer be required.

: Merits

Regionalization has. many ‘merits. Its primary purposes ‘are: to ensure a . smooth continuum of care; to better coordinate health services; to provide private citizens with

» a greater voice.in what services are made available, and how these services will be accessed and utilized. . nn

: Drawb acks' Regionalization also hasits drawbacks. New administrative structures siustbe created

and the philosophies concerning how health care services are provided must be debated and open for change.

T welcome your cominents about Lions Gate Hospital, health renewal and health care on the North Shore. Please write to me: Rebert J. Smith, President, Lions Gate Hospital, 231 East 15th Street, North Vancouver, B.C. V7L 2L7..

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9-1-1 Relay —

Help Lions Gate Hospital raise funds for emergency care’at the:

‘ first annual 9¢1¢1 Relay, Septem- -

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wheel, jog or push a stroller along . the 2 kilometre route.

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