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Conferencing by camera...

Vice-President of Education and Student Services Al Atkinson (left) and CET Director Rob Linschoten (right, on screen), held a mini video conference during the Centre for Educational Technology's Open House on February 28. Software demonstrations, tours of the sound, photo, and television studios, and rooms set up to demonstrate the College’s long-distance video conferencing technology added up to a lively and well-attended event for people to become familiar with the services offered by the CET.

For Your Benefit

- Extended Health

In past months, we discussed how to fill out the forms used to make claims under your Extended Health Benefits coverage. This month, we'd like to outline some of the things covered by the plan. The plan provides for 100% coverage of hospital expenses and 80% coverage of medical expenses. Hospital expenses include:

-regular hospital room and board up to the usual daily charge of the hospital concerned for semi-private care;

-charges for confinement in an Intensive Care Unit;

-convalescent hospital care up to the usual daily charge of the hospital concerned for a semi-private room provided the confinement is i) recommended by your physician, and ii)

follows a 3-day confinement in a hospital as a registered bed-patient and is for the same condition;

-other medically necessary hospital services and supplies.

There is a long list of items which fall into the category of medical expenses. We will outline only some of them here. Many of these items under this category carry a maximum amount of coverage. Please check with the Personnel Department for more details. Some things considered to be medical expenses are:

-doctor’s services for treatment outside the province in which you reside;

-physiotherapist services provided the physiotherapist is not a member of the patient’s family up to a maximum of $275 in any calendar year;

-radiation therapy for cancer treatment and radioactive materials used in the diagnosis;

-oxygen;

-blood transfusions;

-ambulance transportation to the nearest centre where adequate treatment is available (including licensed air ambulance) up to a maximum of $300 in any calendar year;

-rental or, at the plan’s discretion, purchase of the supplies, appliances and prosthetic devices prescribed by a doctor (check with Personnel for the list)

-drugs and medicines which, according to the Food and Drug Act, require the written prescription of a doctor and which are dispensed by a licensed pharmacist. ]