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A Cinderella Grows UpBy MANFRED JAGEItFree Press Medical ReporterWhen Winnipeg's newest hospital approaches completion a year from now, it will offer truly sophisticated medical care to the eastern pari of the city for 1he first time since it opened in im.Long considered somewhat of a Cinderella among Winnipeg's health institutions, the new $7.3 million. Concordia Hospital is to take its place among medical facilities ringing the city’s core• Reportbulletinxie Trovincescloudiness to southern regions and continuing light snow in the north. A high-pressure system will push southeastward out of the Yukon the next few days, giving some sunshine, but colder temperatures to northwestern sections of the prairies. (Figures on the map indicate expected high temperatures today).FORECASTFor Winnipeg, Bissett, the Inlerlake and Bed River regions: Increasing cloudiness loti a,v. Winds from the south at 15 to 20 miles per hour. Mainly cloudy tonight and Thursday ,with a few snow-flurries. Low tonight 15; high on Thursday near 25.TO£ SUPR2S ED To BE lf3 • THE SMTfi ctflttf fSKAEg 1 TRlEbiG/\B ACAB■Mthe ma iheculy SU'f ro stop sad/1MTUSPS RMlDCAlki [THBimJKl_with ils big Manitoba Health Sciences Centre.This ring will comprise Grace Hospital in the west, Victoria Hospital in the south, Concordia in the east and Seven Oaks Hospital — expected just after the -Concordia — in the north.Main assignment for all four of these hospitals — to provide all but the most complicated medical and surgical care for the people in llieir respective communities, thus lightening the load on the downtown centre and raising the total standard of service for Winnipeg's outer areas.With construction at the new hospital site on Concordia Avenue and Birds Hill Road nnw under way — “We have about $1 million worth of concrete walls in place already ” — Concordia’s administrator J, J. Rede-kop talked about the future Tuesday.“We have G9 beds and a staffWINNIPEG TEMPERATURE COMPARISONSMax, Win. MeanNav. 14 ..............16 -5 6Last Year ......... 35 79 37Normal ....... 31 16 24Highest On Record M in 1919 Lowes! On Record -16 In J9Kof 112 now,” said Mr. Redekop. “There is no full-time emergency department, although we see about 4,0110 emergencies a year now, up from -800 only three years ago.“We have no physiotherapy department, no inhalation therapy, no intensive care unit for heart attack and traffic accident victims. We have two operating ruoms only, a major and a minor one.“Our medical staff stands at GD.:'After the move to the new building all this will change.Active medical staff will be boosted lo 100 — “We have had as many as 200 applications from doctors in recent years” — with round-the-clock coverage by at least one physician and one anaestheskdogist seven days a week.“W e perform about 1,800 operations a year now (most of them tonsiHeclomies, minor andFinance Body \\ m lBack Disclosure BidWinnipeg’s civic finance committee refused Tuesday to give its approval to a motion that would require city councillors (o make ari annual disclosure of their property holdings.The motion, originally put before city council by Councillor Joe Zuken (Labor Election Committee, Communist — Lord Selkirk), will be sent back to council without the backing of finance committee.Conn. Zuken’s motion originally called upon each councillor to file with the city clerk each year a statement listing’ Winnipeg real csLato owned or controlled by the councillor or Ills or her spouse and share certificates in any private corporation dealing with Winnipeg real estate.However, he amended his motion Tuesday lo include suggestion by Coun. Morris Kaufman (Independent Citizens Election Committee — Fort Rouge) that administrative reports relating to lard transactions disclose all ascertainable beneficial owners.Conn. Kaufman maintained that reporLs disclosing the names of properly owners would be enough to guard against a councillor being per-s o n a 11 y involved in a land transaction.Such a move would he 'more effective than Coun. Zuken’s original motion, which is not reaiisLicaPy enforceable, h e said.“A pious little statement on registering land once a year doesn’t even scratch the surface.'’Any councillor could be influenced by friends, by real estate people nr by personal considerations, he said. “The only way of making an unbiased decision is by shaking dice.”Other councillors expressed concern at the possible implications if councillors who are lawyers or work in real estate were required to list all properties in which they had a bunefi-cial interest.Some councillors would have to revise the list on a day-to-day basis, commented Coun. Roy Parkliill (ICEC — As-sinibolne Park.)Coun. C. John Gee (ICEC — St. Boniface) indicated that city officials will in future be instruct e d to determine the owners of property involved in transactions with the city over a period of five years and report lo finance committee od any possible irregularities.Coud. Kaufman said after the mooting he will continue to press far acceptance of his suggestion by city council.Just Wild About Zoo HousePeople had to line up on both Saturday and Sunday for admittance* to Assiniboinc Park zoo's new tropical house winch opened Nov. 7.Attendance figure at the zoo during the new building’s first week of operation was 38,557. About 13,BOO people visited the new building Saturday and 17,8M were admitted Sunday.Admittance had lo he restricted to about 250 people at a time because of the crowds of weekend visitors.Total attendance at the zoo so far this year is well above1.722.000, more than tho total 15)71 attendance figure of1.699.000.W.K. Legion MeetingThe West Kildonan Legion No. 30 Ladies Auxiliary will hold its'annual tea at 2 p.m. Nov. 10 in the Legion club rooms, Hartford Avenue and Main Street.medium gynaecology, varicose veins, hernias, gastric repairs and work up to and including gall bladder removals In an average of eight procedures a day).”The new Concordia will have 132 beds — 1G single rooms, 40 doubles, seven four-bedders and eight intensive care beds m one special area where monitoringof vital' signs can be carriedout.There will be six surgical theaLrcs, five of them fully equipped for everything including brain surgery if a patient brought in with serious injury canT be transferred. The skill is expected ready for action later.mtoPlt;stPtfiiSIatitofPiihhiclfaeiCLcincweiMNo transplant or opcn-heart surgery is anticipated for the four suburban community hospitals.The number of surgeries performed at Concordia will triple or quadruple, partly relieving waiting periods for elective procedures in other hospitals and at Concordia itself, where delays now last up to two months.The new hospital will have between 330 and 340 people on staff, 190 of them nurses with two out of every five of them licensed praeticiils and three registered nurses as at present. Laboratory and X-ray staff will increase to 15) from the present five.Aqri while today’s Coucordia Hospital operates on $950,000 a year or $50 for each palient-day of care given, tho new institution will require a whopping $3 million annually to keep going, about $80 a patient-day.it'll be a long shot from 1028, when the Mcnnonile Hospital Society Concordia opened its first seven-bed facility for maternity cases on Beverley Street, or when it paid a cool $18,000 for the first wing of its present quarters in cash 13 years later.Three million dollars a year?“Yes,” said Mr. Redekop. “But for that we’ll serve about90.000 people hi North Kildonan, East Kildonan, Elmwood and Transcona, with lab and X-ray facilities lor them even if their doclor sees no reason to admit them for conditions requiring hospitalization.”About $10 per patient day — a total of $300,000 — will go to pay interest on the hospital’s debt, which comes to 80 per cent of the building price tag with Winnipeg picking up the rest. Another $5 of the pcr-dietn rate will be needed to retire the hospital’s own debentures.But 7,500 people will be iu-pa-lients each year, with another i20.000 getting treatment for! emergencies or having minor • surgery without admission. In the present hospital 3,000 patients are admitted each year and another 4,000 come in for injuries or minor work not requiring admission.Once the move to the new hos-pital is made, the present j Concordia will be used “for i some lypc of alLematc enre,” said Mr. Redekop. One possibility is also to turn it into a hotel for senior citizens, but no decision has been made.eztiitocc\vlt;martvthP.titPi$4?2of$1biorceseniG;a51ylt;rst$1$1londcdl\\arWd;tillllt;riwWi.
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Winnipeg Free Press
Winnipeg, Manitoba, CA
Wed, Nov 15, 1972
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