Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 16, 1987, Winnipeg, Manitoba 4 Winnipeg free november nursing Homes fear funding bind from fee dispute by Christina Dona the provinces refusal to pay reasonable fees to pharmacists will place nursing Homes in a financial two Home administrators said last Jerry administrator of Mead Wood Manor personal care said he and Many other administrators Are upset with the government for putting the squeeze on pharmacists and jeopardizing the Quality of service to elderly Resi members of the Manitoba society of professional pharmacists announced yesterday they will begin charging Persona care Homes for pharmacies stay open during talks continued from Page 1 the society will suggest its Mem Bers charge a dispensing fee of about per the amount they have been seeking in negotiations with the Davis noting druggists in other provinces receive Between and at the last set of the province offered a 10cent increase in the current dispensing one of the lowest in the he prescription costs Medica Tion Cost plus the dispensing fee Are paid in full by but Pha Macare reimburses them for up to 80percent of the amount beyond a deductible frustrated by the deadlock in be the society had asked pharmacists to halt services in their drugstores while attending yester Days study while almost All the so Cletys 500 members attended the Many left Par time pharmacists and other staff on Dave a pharmacist at Nia Kwa said he had a pharmacist working the sunday afternoon shift because he did not want to lose it would be a Little different if they asked us to close for a couple of Thompson but to close for a whole Day is too i have to run a certain services 1 if fee negotiations with the government re main the Homes will be charged for deliveries and for packaging medi cation in monitored the total Cost increase to personal care Homes is estimated at or a month per patient for the provinces Persona care Home the pharmacists want higher dispensing but say the province is trying to reduce the Quality of service is being thrown to the wind because the government wants to save a few Dol Hayes and All at the expense of the the administrator of the nonprofit nursing Home said Many other members of the Manitoba Lon term care feel the same Hayes said the provinces care standards require medication to be dispensed in monitored pharmacies have increased their operating costs in putting out their medication to meet these Stan he now the govern ment is asking them to continue putting out these things but reduce their Helmuth administrator of Dogwood Manor personal care said nursing Homes dont have the funding base to cover the increased wed have to go Back to separating the medication from Klassen i dont think the Safe standards could be properly applied if we had to do this on a Large wed have All those Little bottles to count out and that would increase our workload and our staffing de Klassen said Persona care Homes Are caught in the Middle of the the pressure is being put on us to solve the governments Hayes said the government Hast advised nursing Homes on the although pharmacists have been keeping them updated on the fee we dont want to go Back to the antiquated system of administering Hayes so Well pay the additional Cost and Well have to go to the government to see How it will be Reg executive director of the Manitoba health services refused comment on the pharmacists announcement until Drill aided mayor says Rescue teams worked five hours to free passengers trapped in plane cuts and Pena said the Rescue Effort went and credits an emergency Drill the City ran with Continental airlines a couple of weeks ago for the Way the disaster was Han the last major plane crash took place on a Northwest airlines a ver Sion of the crashed on Takeoff at Detroit metropolitan killing 156 authorities from the National transportation safety Board plan to Fly to Denver to investigate the a Board spokesman Snow was falling steadily in Den ver most of the and Airport authorities said earlier that visibility was Low and flights were hampered by Strong at least 15 centimetres of Snow had fallen by Treyve been taking off All Day in these said Airport spokesman Richard he said the Airport usually keeps operating in snowy patrons flee for cover in shooting gunman panicked after victims accosted witness claims continued from Page 1 he said the gunman fired sending people fleeing for cover be fore his Friend went Over and began arguing with him about firing which they thought was a Pellet then he fired a shot right be tween us and i said lets get out of that no Pellet gun its the real the Man said in an interview minutes after the the Guy with the gun started walking Back to the car and these other Guys said Hes just trying to scare people with a Pellet gun lets get and started following him to the the first Guy walked up behind him and grabbed him just As he opened the so the Guy just turned around and shot him night in the 1 his partner came running up behind him and he got shot in the they were both just laying there and the Guy with the gun jumped in the passenger Side of the car and they took somebody else was the witness said he thought the assailant fired five shots in All be fore fleeing in a car he described As a 1975 or 1976 Dar Blue firebird or police were told to watch for a 1976 Camaro z28 a Short time the witness said he didst be Lieve the gunman intended to shoot but panicked when the Vic Tim grabbed him by the lapels of his officials unable to explain specifics of pay settlement continued from Page 1 salary and another the accounts who said he became Deputy after Haugh left the and who won Haughs Job after a civil service said the was possibly a final Settle ment but they didst have both confirmed Haugh left his Job in june or but they explain Why he was paid in salary More than two thirds of his annual pay for a six month Haugh refused comment and directed All queries to Energy and mines i am perfectly Content where i am and i dont really want to talk about he who continues to be presi Dent of Ham would not say if he resigned or was asked to leave the he said he is eligible for a provincial As is the Case with All employees who Complete 10 years stressing he had no personal involvement in the matter and was speaking Only from said his understanding was that Haugh left the department because he was unhappy about a reorganization of the Mineral resources there was an agreement on his part to part my understand ing is that the consultancy contract was part of that Dick acting Energy and mines Deputy minister in Early said he didst know the Circum stances of Haughs now Deputy minister of cooperative said Marc now Manitoba Hydro was acting Deputy minis Ter when Haugh during neither Liesen nor Energy minis Ter Jerry Storie could be reached for Chenier said the Mineral re sources division reorganized in Early 1985 when he was executive director of administration in the Energy and mines Chenier said until the reorganize the Mineral resources division consisted of the geology and Petroleum the Petroleum Branch was put directly under the Deputy i planned the Chenier adding he didst know if Haugh was unhappy about Singh said he cant make Public Haughs 227page study on the mines act because it has yet to go to Cabinet with the depart ments transit leads Way in Accident claims continued from Page 1 which totalled last As a Goodwill the majority of they Are paid regardless of liability on a gratuitous the next most common claim was for accidents involving City Lehi the transit department led the Way in Accident claims of 452 last year followed by works and operations and with 271 and 141 they include vandalism and that Type of Kurushima there were 51 injury claims last most stemming from Falls on City sidewalks and Kurushima said 99 per cent of injury claims Are settled out of even though the Justice sys tem repeatedly has ruled municipal bodies cant be held liable in most last year a Winnipeg woman successfully sued the City for Gross negligence for the first time since the City was ordered to pay to Filomena who fell on an icy sidewalk after getting off a City bus on Mandalay Crescent on fracturing her right one injury settled out of was paid to James Blanco was injured when a car he was in collided with a Winnipeg fire department vehicle on March the smallest successful claim last year was paid to a family for damaged garbage can Kurushima the largest was which went toward the Cost of restoring Chalmers Community Centre after a fire in february other claims include dam age to a transit bus after an Accident in May 1986 when the bus went out of the City spent to repair a grader used for Snow Clearing and Road construction after it collided with a up rail train on games expected to draw athletes continued from Page 1 first Winter games to be staged in the summer games were held in Montreal in More than athletes from 60 countries Are taking part in the Calgary weve built facilities to involve As Many people As we can in the games and we want to involve As Many people As possible in the Torch said who came to the Torch ceremony in a White Cowboy hat and White Cowboy boots stamped with the Calgary olympic also attending the olympic Torch ceremony was greek culture minis Ter Melina who is leading Greece Campaign to stage the 1996 Centennial modern olympics in we wish them All Good Luck for the Calgary olympics and ill be there to applaud and wish them Success with All my the former actress in order to focus on staging the 1996 greek sports officials have a Lon term plan for the sum Mer olympics to return permanently to the Sanctuary where they first took place in 776 the ancient games were held at Olympia every four years without a break for More than the Guy was swearing and really pissed but i dont think he really wanted to shoot but when those Guys started chasing he just shot the first ambulance Crew rushed to the first Man whose face was badly swollen and disfigured by the while the second Vic Tim Lay writhing in pain police sources say the Type of gun used in the shooting was a nine millimetre confirm the Wardrop refused to Type of weapon or the description of the getaway vehicle and its he said there had been a fight in the bar earlier where a Patron received a knife wound and people were but he con firm a link Between the fight and the we dont know if this whole thing is interrelated but we Are certainly looking at that pos Sibili Wardrop i eyes examined Contact lenses fitted 2nd flow hurtful Bufe m4 9436628 ssh toy Lexer Lexer Arthur Parker denture clinic dentures 1 Day service dental Murance plans accepted 702 Boyd building 388 Portage 5 marys at Marlon 235o001 Torino tile Marble Tosef fuss occur Fleet catalogue Stock stools setting materials rent brother electronic office typewriters immediate delivery 7866611 National typewriter v 639 save Over 50 on professional color portraits take advantage of 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