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THURSDAY, JANUARY 7, 2010
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ER saved, OR closing Fraser Health makes more cuts at Mission Memorial Hospital BY
CAROL AUN
Mission Record
The good news is the emergency department at Mission Memorial Hospital will remain open 24 hours a day. The bad news is the operating room at the hospital will be shut down. Fraser Health’s vice presidents of clinical operations, Barbara Korabek and Arden Krystal,
met with Mission council at Monday night’s regular meeting to discuss the changes. The closure came about after consultations with local government and Mission physicians. Currently one operating room is being used in Mission two days a week. It is the least busy surgical site out of all the operating rooms in the Fraser Health region, explained Korabek. About 500 surgeries were performed at MMH last year, and all were considered low acuity
elective day care cases. Some examples of the procedures performed there were arthroscopy (knee), carpal tunnel release and tonsillectomy. Most of the clients needing the surgery were not from Mission. Fraser Health first announced it was considering cutting the emergency department down to 15 hours a day, closing each night at 11 p.m. and routing ER calls to Abbotsford or Maple Ridge. See HOSPITAL Page 3
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HEATING UP The Heat are back for a weekend home stand, the Icebreakers were singed by the Flames and the rest of the sports. PAGE 10
ASSESSMENTS DOWN FOR ’10 Property assessments are arriving in the mail, and home owners are finding they are down across the Fraser Valley. PAGE 11
LOCAL SUED FOR $250,000 A Mission man who misappropriated funds for a real estate transaction lost in supreme court. PAGE 2
A BUMPY RIDE FROM MISSION Hands free calling is the only way to legally make calls in B.C., after new legislation that prevents drivers from dialing and texting. See story PAGE 3. BLACK PRESS PHOTO
Boulders on the Mission Bridge damage vehicles and stalled the morning commute. PAGE 4
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