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A COSTLY STEP BACKWARDS

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The mega hospital is advertised at $2 billion but when interest and maintenance contracts are added, the hospital and satellites are estimated to cost $2.62 billion. In addition, the current proposed location is expected to cost the city an additional $220 million for infrastructure.

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In 2008 Peterborough completed a publicly funded 500 bed hospital fully equipped for $285 million, one tenth the cost of the hospital proposed here. Peterborough was only 750,000 square feet (sf), ours will be 1.6 million sf so even at double the Peterborough price that would be $570 million.

A more reasonable size compared to other 500-700 bed hospitals would be 1.2 million sf like the plan for Vancouver St Paul's hospital to be rebuilt on 18.4 acres downtown just 2 km away.

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TWO HOSPITALS CLOSED FOR ONE REMOTE SITE, just isn't right

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Met and Ouellette campus hopsitals will close and be demolished, a single site remote hospital is just not an adequate replacement for these two. There has been some discussion of maintaining parts of the Ouellette campus buildings, and retaining some services, but so far nothing equivalent to a full hospital.

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URGENT CARE CLINIC, not a viable replacement

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Promoters of the plan discuss the Urgent Care Clinic (UCC) and satellites as though they are a viable replacement to the existing two hospitals; they are not. Even with a few diagnostics or a full emergency room, it would not be equivalent to a full hospital. Current plans leave the downtown area with no overnight care, no surgeries, no day procedures, no specialists, no obstetrics, no cancer care, no MRI, no treatment for life-threatening conditions, no mental health beds, etc.

 

The total reported cost for these satellite buildings is $400 million. Both Collingwood and the Muskokas are planning small but full hospitals for just under $400 million, why wouldn't we do the same?

                      

 OTHER ISSUES/COSTS (financial, social, environmental)

 

• Inaccessibility: People without a vehicle will struggle to get there

• Increased transit costs to the city: Currently no transit route to the site

• No Alternative Hospital: in case of disaster or more routine shut-down

• Inefficiency: Research shows that hospitals become economically inefficient over 600 beds. 

• Same Services, and same number of Beds: Overcrowding and long wait times show these are not enough

• Lack of community engagement and response to the community. No transparency, no polls or referendum

• Poorly predetermined criteria: Single site not publicly discussed, site selection based on profit not healthcare (typical of P3 building), 'the 60-acre mistake'

• Excessive Costs -P3 financing and maintenance contract

• Excessive floor space: 1.6 million square feet

• Poor Urban Planning- Infrastructure cost

• Poor Urban Planning- environmental- increased travel

• Poor urban Planning -economic loss to existing city/ blight

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                            Some hospital planners are just plain cruel: