About Mega Hospital Mistake

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We are a relatively new group concerned with multiple issues regarding the new Windsor-Essex hospital that have been seldom discussed.

 

One of our primary concerns is that there should be two full hospital sites rather than a single site. Research shows a single site hospital with over 600 beds is less efficient, than two sites with 200-400 beds each.

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The entire plan needs to be reconsidered. We need a plan that can be considered an adequate and reasonable replacement for the existing two hospitals, while increasing the range of accessibility, not decreasing it. By reasonable we mean not excessively costly, financially and to the environment, and not to enhance the divide between the haves and have nots.

Other issues:

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

• 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 adequately discussed publicly, site selection based on profit rather than healthcare (typical P3 building criteria not those used for hospitals), and 'the 60-acre mistake'

• ​Excessive Costs -P3 financing and maintenance contract

• Excessive floor space: 1.6 million square feet

• Unnecessary Infrastructure costs to the city

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

           

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                                                                                                           Doug Charles,

                                                                               

                                                                                                              Administrator

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