Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 14, 2000, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg Frik thursday local a13 patients spend less time in system saves Money asthma sufferers Hail clinics asthma sufferer Bever Ley Watts says she can now walk close to a kilo metre to her friends Home for morning Coffee even when the temperature plummets to 30 c without a whisper of a Huff or a nothing bothers i can go just about she said from her Stonewall attended a special clinic at seven Oaks general where staff taught her ways to control asthma and alter dosages of her medications an armoury of puffers and pills that costs her a month in pre before shed spend four or five Days every Spring on twice daily trips to her local hos Pital for specially formulated drug inhalants to keep her air ways from swelling it has really changed my i dont go to the Hospital any teaching patients to control their own asthma works to save healthcare dollars and curbs the leading cause of Hospital admissions in according to a study by a drug company that has started 51 teaching clinics in hospitals across the a total of people 962 adults and children up to age 16 at 27 of the Community asthma care centres were Evalu ated six months after they enrolled in the the programs were initiated by pharmaceutical giant Glaxo wellcome to show patients ways to control asthma and avoid painful attacks by tailoring plans to their individual the which lasted five estimated the strategy saved million nationwide in healthcare costs traditionally associated with poorly controlled Vincent Taraska said As director of respiratory Medicine at seven Oaks and Victoria Gen eral hospitals Hes seen Peoples lives turn around As a result of the every asthma patient who turns up in the seven Oaks or is offered the we spend two or three or four hours with each individual and when they leave they understand what the nature of asthma and they understand their medications so they can take care of their own asthma with some Taraska Winnipeg regional health authority Vic president Jan Currie praised the programs and said the province would Proba Bly Benefit by expanding the Edu cation clinics to Community hospitals in asthma clinics that took part in the study Are located at the Bethel Hospital in Morden and the Winnipeg hospitals Concor health sciences Centre and seven the seven Oaks clinic has one of the Best records of controlling asthma in the doctors Wayne free press doing the wave members of the new directions for youth and families choir wave to an appreciative crowd after singing carols on the grand staircase of the legislative building Monique Henzel conducts the which Aims to give an Opportunity to mentally challenged individuals to participate fully in Rogers wireless forget Black give a gift everyone on your list can appreciate including a Nokia 5165 digital now you can Exchange text messages with your friends and you gain Access to Canadas largest digital no wonder its better to give than and vice imagine Call 1 800 imagine or visit a Rogers Cleate near Winnipeg Ca 2599 Pembina at Bison 2611234 Tyndall Market mall 6971234 Rogers express Polo Park 7742412 air source vital Centre 9892939 air source 1200 Mcphillips 9892927 air source 1500 Regent 9883080 air source 212 Henderson 9892954 air source Marion 9892944 air soured Portage place 9460721 air source 2609 Portage at Moray 9542939 air source Linden Woods Market 9542929 1026 marys 9873444 to Centre 9873443 crazy crazy Matthews 7720461 prime time communication 671 Pembina 9251260 West can cellular 251 notre Dame 9823600 mind computer products 1745 Ellice Avenue 7832001 vip worldwide second level Canada Post skywalk 9479570 Forest computers 1111 Henderson 9456590 Brandon sobering communications unit 18th Street 7260088 sobering communications 10th at Victoria 7250088 Imperial radio 324 Richmond East 7284134 Beausejour Beausejou tire 751 Park 2682826 Dauphin Ricks electronics 213rd Avenue 6383699 lunar Portage la Prairie sobering communications 234 Saskatchewan e 8573309 will compute 16 Saskatchewan 2390810 Russell Hometown electronics 154 main 7733448 Selkirk Blaines 366 main Street 4823657 5teinbach sobering communications 144 Highway 12 3264186 Virden sobering communications Virden shoppers mall 7483003 Winkler future shop o Rogers video office depot Sears Mailin applies As a credit on future Rogers monthly for existing hardware offer May not Call for existing customer offer expires december offer applies on two year term plans starting from Long roaming and applicable taxes Are system fees May offer is available on select communications used under used under ;