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Old ICU to become new paediatric space TRE VOR CR AWLEY Townsman Staff
The East Kootenay Regional Hospital is currently undergoing expansion with the construction of a new ICU ward. That begs the question of what the plan is for the existing ICU space once the new project is finished. That was answered
on Friday, when Interior Health, along with the East Kootenay Foundation for Health, unveiled a proposed paediatric space at a monthly meeting of the RDEK board of directors. “IH [Interior Health] made a formal request to the board to change scope of the ICU project to include upgrading the current ICU space at
EKRH for redevelopment for paediatrics and nursery services,” said Todd Mastel, in his presentation to the board. “We can accommodate this change and scope to the project without an increase in contribution from the Ministry of Health and the hospital board, due to the willingness of the East Kootenay Founda-
tion for Health to undertake a major fundraising campaign for the ICU clinical equipment that is currently within the scope of the $20 million project.” Interior Health has to meet with all funders of the expansion project in order to receive approval for to expand the scope of the ICU project. “By bringing all our
mat-child services into one area of the hospital allows us to gain some efficiency of providing service,” added Mastel. “It’ll be a bigger space than we currently have for paediatrics—right now we have two paediatric beds on the third floor in between our medical unit and our oncology department.” “Bringing those beds
down to the second floor and again, having that integrated service area for children and babies will provide us with efficiencies on the
operations side, it’s a much better co-location and adjacency than we currently have.”
See OLD ICU, Page 3
Scriver enters race for City Council seat TRE VOR CR AWLEY
Local resident Brad Scriver has thrown his hat into the ring and will be seeking a seat on Cranbrook city council for the upcoming municipal election. Scriver, who has worked in civil construction and was owner of the former Echo Fields paintball business for seven years, decided to run after becoming disenfranchised with the state of fiscal responsibility. “Over the past couple years, there’s been some frivolous spend-
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ing,” said Scriver, “and the more and more I saw of it—it accumulated a year or so ago and [I] said, ‘I’ve had enough, I’m going to do something about it.’
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Kostiuk announces run for City Council TRE VOR CR AWLEY
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WHL hockey is back in Cranbrook for its 16th season, as the Kootenay Ice welcomed the Spokane Chiefs to town Friday for the 2014/15 season home opener. See the weekend recap Page 10. Above: Jon Martin of the Kootenay Ice and Chiefs; goaltender Garret Hughson get acquainted in Hughson’s crease on Friday.
Brian Kostiuk has entered into the race for city council. The long-time resident who has lived in Cranbrook for 52 years, has made it official after deciding to take a stand on on traffic safety issues. “The last few years, I’ve worked on safety issues of intersections, cross walks, etc, with the city of Cranbrook in trying to make it a safer city for our drivers and pedestrians,” Kostiuk said. Kostiuk says his concerns with some traffic safety issues around
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Cranbrook have been backed up by a traffic study report completed by McElhanney, a professional engineering firm.
See KOSTIUK, Page 4