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Four-year-old Elsa Huang makes friends with some pigeons at the Quay on Sunday, as the early spring weather coaxed residents out of hibernation for at least part of the weekend. Residents hoping to enjoy some outside time this weekend may be in luck. Although the forecast is calling for some rain on Friday and Saturday, it’s meant to clear up for partly sunny weather in time for Easter Sunday – with temperatures reaching a high of 12 C for the holiday weekend. PHOTO LISA KING
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New West eyes new model for health care A new community health centre could help ease strain on overstressed hospital emergency rooms tmcmanus@newwestrecord.ca
New Westminster city council is keen on the concept of having a community health centre in the Royal City. A delegation of medical professionals and professors from the faculty of health sciences at Simon Fraser University recent-
ly appeared at a city council meeting to encourage New Westminster to support the creation of a community health centre in the city.While there are many community health centres across Canada, the only one in British Columbia is REACH, which opened in East Vancouver in 1969. “The main attributes of a community health centre involve community gover-
nance, community engagement and community accountability,” said John Calvert, an associate professor in the faculty of sciences at SFU. “They involve using an interdisciplinary team of health-care professionals that try and ensure the services that are provided are integrated and are very broad in scope in terms of the types of professionals involved. Community health centres deal
with the whole issue of the social determinants of health and wellness.” Instead of treating people once they’re already ill, Calvert said community health centres help people through prevention, outreach, community education and health advocacy. The centres provide a range of services Continued on page 3
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