Tues July 19, 2011 Leader

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Tuesday July 19, 2011 Serving Surrey and North Delta www.surreyleader.com

Home care instead of hospitals for seniors Fraser Health aims to treat the elderly where they live by Jeff Nagel FRASER HEALTH is stepping up

efforts to steer seniors away from costly hospital or long-term care beds if they can be supported and treated in their own homes. The health authority has hired five quick response case managers – based at Surrey Memorial, Peace Arch, Royal Columbian, Burnaby and Abbotsford Regional hospitals – to work with geriatric nurses to flag incoming patients at ERs who can instead be sent home with bolstered supports. That’s one of a series of initiatives underway collectively dubbed “Home is Right” – a broad effort to change the mindset of hospital officials, health care workers and families.

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Japan’s Haruka Kageyama tags Team U.S.A.’s Rhea Taylor out at second base during a base stealing attempt during the final game at the Scotiabank Canadian Open Fastpitch International Championship at Softball City on Sunday. Japan beat the U.S. 7-0.

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“Home with appropriate supports... is the best place for seniors to manage their chronic conditions and live out their final days.” Lynda Foley

Japan takes championship Americans overwhelmed in final of international fastpitch tourney by Nick Greenizan THOUGH THE RAIN didn’t arrive in full force until the last few

innings, it was Japan that brought the thunder early, scoring six times in the first three innings en route to a 7-0 waxing of the United States, in the women’s division final at the Scotiabank Canadian Open Fastpitch International Championship in Surrey Sunday. Japan beat the American squad twice Sunday at Softball City, first in the semifinal game 4-3, which knocked the U.S. into the consolation bracket, before punching their ticket to the title game with a 6-1 win over Australia.

But while the first Japan-USA tilt was close – with Japan scoring the winning run on an error in the bottom of the seventh inning – Sunday evening game was anything but. Japan scored twice in the first inning, thanks to a pair of doubles down the third-baseline, first from leadoff batter Eri Yamada and then from Maki Furuta, added another run in the second, and tacked on three more in the third inning, highlighted by a home run from third basemen Yu Yamamoto. American starting pitcher Keilani Ricketts lasted just one-anda-third innings – giving up five hits and three runs – before she

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