Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 22, 2000, Winnipeg, Manitoba A6 local Winn Pic Fiir 2000 province will spend More to allow terminally ill patients to die in Comfort Home care for dying gets boost by Sean Oconnor the provincial government will spend an extra million Annu ally to allow the terminally ill to die in the Comfort of their own the Money will go towards Home care and Community services in the including hiring up to six palliative care doctors and the creation of a team to respond to terminally ill patients in their Homes 24hours a the province will also change Mani Tobas drug allowing terminally ill patients to receive the same medications at Home As they would get in Hospital at no extra right Home based terminally ill patients pay a deductible for drugs based on earned even though the same drugs would be free at Hospi this program will provide you with the option of having those drugs paid for and provided to you at your own said health minister Dave changes to the drug program Are not expected until the health officials have yet to establish the the 24hour response team is expected to be up and running within though the idea is to provide service to the terminally Chomiak said the measures will have the spinoff Benefit of decreasing demand for acute care Hospital Chomiak announced the funding yesterday at a convention of about 700 receptive palliative care the today convention is one of the largest of its kind in we think its going to make a big Dif Ference to the people who Are living with terminal illness and their help ing them to live More comfortably at which is where the vast majority would prefer to said Margaret executive director of hospice and palliative care Canadian studies have shown that about 70 per cent of people would prefer to die at Home rather than in a Only 10 per cent of terminally ill patients in Winnipeg die at said the goal is to get that number up to 30 per cent in three the announcement was the second half of a two phased improvement to palliative care the initiated under the former conservative govern saw the opening of a new Pallia Tive care unit at Boniface general Hospital in Chomiak said he expects to review palliative care plans for Rural communities in the coming provincial Park to open in 2001 fundraising Campaign starting Premier Gary doer yesterday announced the creation of a 166hectare provincial which will open in the fall of funding for the Pembina Valley provincial is being split evenly Between Manitoba conservation and the nature conservancy of Cana the which includes a number of rare Plant was originally acquired by local land owner Henry who sold the property for the Parks the Pembina Valley located just North of the Border and South of will offer hiking picnicking and wildlife it will be available for Day but not for overnight Camp it is bordered by the Point Douglas wildlife management area and the Pembina Valley by Nick Martin Manitoba newest University officially opens its Campus this weekend with a capital expansion fundraising the Canadian mennonite which existed Only on paper a year opened the doors of its Tuxedo Campus this Concord College president John Unger said there Are 254 full time students enrolled at the which takes up both sides of Grant Avenue on the West Side of Shaftesbury but add in part Seminary discipleship students training in and members of Menno Simons College attending classes at the University of and there Are about 650 full time equiv already closing in on the University goal of 800 full time the cum is a federation that includes the Canad an mennonite Brethren Concord College which has moved from its longtime Elmwood Campus and Menno Simons a Mac has Long occupied the South Side of but the school has into the former Manitoba school for the Unger said cum has added eight faculty this fall and is offering courses in and conflict the emphasis remains on Christian and International develop though Unger noted theres a significant num Ber of students who Arent mennonite or its no secret were coming from a certain per pointed out third year student Rebecca Bartel of everything you study is influenced by your Christian studies you learn How to develop but you would View Money As a Unger said both u of w and University of Manitoba have been very cooperative in enrolling cum courses that Arent available in we run shuttle services to both u of m and u of he shake a leg to collect a Lump sum by Carol Sanders More than Winnipeg women May be Able to Cash in on their cottage cheese thighs in the cites first cellulite women aged 18 to 45 Are needed to test the ability of a Cream and Massage to reduce Lumpy fat deposits on the upper says Wendy Lazer of Hill top research in return for exposing their receive we need so Many Lazer the difficulty will be in finding enough Guinea pigs with sufficiently Lardy cellulite is so despised that women with even a Little bit of it think its screening cell Elitc is so dates in despised that looking for people women with weighty who she the even 3 Little women will be of of asked to put on a pair of baggy ath Letic shorts and trained graders will do a visual they expect to turn away two people for every one who qualifies for the set to begin in Lazer those who make the Cut will have to return for six visits to the products testing Branch of the company and Fol Low a regimen at Home for their this is a very involved Lazer four of the six visits will take up to two hours for various including tissue density and moisture Well be lending people a handheld Massage that kneads the she its this novel combination of Cream and Massage that the Active ingredient and sets this cellulite treat ment apart from said men with gluttonous Gams need not Lazer said she Doest think males develop cellulite like even if they there not Welcome in the test because the manufacturer int target ing women Over 45 Are also out of the run Lazer said she expects its because they be helped by the treatment because their skin tone has those interested in taking part in the study can Call the recruiting line at 453 von fights takeover by health authority by Carol Sanders the victorian order of nurses is not going without a today at a press the von will Call on the Winnipeg regional health authority to Back up a claim that it can do a better Job of managing 300 Home care nurses and save we need some information on How those savings can be said Winnipeg is the Only jurisdiction in Canada trying to take Over the before dismantling a service that has functioned for 100 the Warha must show the Public How it will achieve the Cost said chief executive officer Ambrose with 67 branches across Canada Shar ing the von gets a lot of bang for its he the von would Welcome suggestions on How to become More efficient but so none have been put he the von has opened its books to the but the Warha wont say Why it is singling out the von among its part ners in healthcare he we provided at least two feet of documents and information and All we receive is a Curt letter saying were going to kick you out in four he said in a phone interview from Toron after 30 years does that seem reasonable to you Sharon the Werhas Vic president of Community said in four meetings since june they out lined How the Warha could manage the von More Macdonald said the Winnipeg Branch has to pay a year to support a National savings would also be had by eliminating duplication of ser vices at the senior management level and in of the 350 von employees in win close to 300 Are said Bob senior director of Western Canada for at a meeting they wanted to know whats going to Hap pen to their seniority and pensions if the Warha takes he the authority will be meeting with the nurses Union Over the next few Days to discuss seniority concerns of von said ;