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Hospital flagged in report ‘Urgent patient-safety concern’ highlighted in Fraser Health review Cornelia Naylor staff reporter
Burnaby Hospital took a pounding in a recent provincial review of the Fraser Health Authority. “Burnaby Hospital is showing flags in nearly all patient-safety indicators,” states the report, summing up a long list of deficiencies found at the local health-care facility. Topping the list was the hospital’s performance on so-called “nursingsensitive adverse events” – pneumonia, urinary tract infections, fractures and pressure ulcers that patients get from their stay in hospitals. Among its peers, Burnaby was the worst hospital in the country for such events from 2010 to 2012, doubling the national average. The report called the findings an “urgent patient-safety concern” and recommended Fraser Health undertake an immediate review of the issue to identify root causes and take “urgent steps” to fix the problem. Burnaby also performed worse than 97 per cent of its peers across the country for treating patients admitted with fractured hips within 48 hours, a crucial factor in the recovery of elderly patients. Readmission rates – for patients who’ve been released but have to Hospital Page 8
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From Italy with love: Stefangelo Papa, 22, took part in a new online survey from SFU exploring how third-generation Italians feel about their grandparents’ culture.
Of food, work and family friends.” The connection third-generation ItalianCanadians like Papa have with their grandparents’ culture is the subject of the first online survey SFU is conducting through the newly launched Institute For Diaspora Research and Engagement. Papa was a perfect candidate for the study: He’s young, just 22; his grandparents immigrated here from Lazio and Calabria; he’s been to Italy a few times; he can speak the language well, and he lives with his family in Burnaby’s Heights
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urnaby’s Stefangelo Papa has a few of those telltale Italian features: a strong connection to family, expressive hand gestures and an appreciation for good food. “Food is huge. Everybody in my family can cook,” says the young Papa over a cappuccino in the noisy bar of Vancouver’s Italian Cultural Centre. “I’m pretty sure I eat better than all my other
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neighbourhood, where many of the city’s Italian residents are. For Papa, being Italian signifies many things, and he’s more than happy to share his thoughts. “It means that I take pride in my work, I have a strong relationship with my family, and I do the best that I can in school,” he says. When Papa’s not studying sociology and psychology at SFU, he works in the Italian Cultural Centre’s museum, pulling treasures from storage and readying them Italy Page 8
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