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Program helps clients overcome language barrier
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Four Villages Community Health Centre to provide phone interpretation service LISA RAINFORD lrainford@insidetoronto.com Four Villages Community Health Centre clients who don’t speak English will be better able to describe their ailments to physicians in their own language thanks to a new program rolled out by the Toronto Central Local Health Integration Network (LHIN). As of Oct. 1, Language Services Toronto will provide real-time phone interpretation in 170 languages, seven days a week, 24 hours a day as part of a pilot project in several hospital emergency rooms, clinics and health centres across the GTA,
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including Four Villages Community Health Centre at Keele and Bloor West streets as well as its satellite location on Dundas Street West at Windermere Avenue. “Within a minute, we can have (an interpreter) on the phone with a patient who walks through our door,” said Kasia Filaber, Four Villages clinical services director. Four Villages clients hail from 90 countries and speak – at last count, said Filaber – 140 languages. Although the health centre was already the recipient of language interpretation funding, this new program will make it much more >>>LANGUAGE, page 9
Bloor West doctor climbs Kilimanjaro, saves a life LISA RAINFORD lrainford@insidetoronto.com Four days into a seven-day climb up Mount Kilimanjaro, Bloor West Village resident Dr. Bjug Borgundvaag encountered an unexpected patient. Guides were calling for a physician as Borgundvaag, who works in the Emergency Department at Mount Sinai Hospital, climbed a
steep hill to the nearest campsite along with the rest of his fundraising expedition. They brought him to a ranger hut where he discovered a shivering little boy wearing little more than sandals on his feet. “It was really good fortune we found him when we did,” recalled Borgundvaag, just three days after returning to work at the hospital. >>>CLIMBERS, page 16
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TAKING A STROLL: This young family took a stroll through High Park recently with the fall colours starting to arrive. But the vibrant colours on the trees won’t be around much longer as the leaves continue to fall quickly.
As runners ramp up their training for the upcoming Scotiabank Toronto Waterfront Marathon, the communities of Swansea, Bloor West and High Park are gearing up to encourage and inspire the athletes during the fi fth annual cheering event later this month. Each year, the Swansea Town Hall, the Swansea Area Ratepayers Association and the Swansea Royal Canadian Legion Branch 46 join forces to organize a fun-filled morning of entertainment, food and cheering – all in support of the thousands of runners in the marathon. Theirs will be one of 12 cheering stations along the route. Their mission: to raise community spirit, fundraise for each group while cheering on the runners, particularly the ‘champion’ runners participating on the local neighbourhoods’ behalf. The race takes place on Sunday, Oct. 14. “We want to encourage people to come down to our new site,” said Carol Walmsley, one of the organizers. For the past four years, the group has been situated on the median at Lake Shore Boulevard and Windermere Avenue – the most westernly location on the course. This year, they’ll still be on Lake >>>CHEERING, page 20