Hospitals in KW

[ijmorlan]

Yeah, that's pretty much as expected. I don't really agree with any of the proposals, but it's revealing that they used 50 acres as a hard limit, and "near transit" is an also ran criteria.

The article also says that “one of the largest hospitals in Canada was built on 10 acres in Mississauga”. So unless our hospital is required to be 5 times bigger still, the 50 acre requirement is clearly stupid; so stupid that I would start looking for criminal motivation if I didn’t have more understanding of just how deeply stupid some intelligent people can be.

Transit definitely should be a hard requirement. What are the 50 acres for, anyway, if not a grossly excessive amount of parking?

The proposal probably is the better option, but IMO, megaprojects like this are usually bad ideas, and incremental improvements are a better strategy. Both St. Mary's and GRH have significant room to progressively expand and improve over time.

I’ve never understood this argument that something like a hospital is old and therefore must be replaced. It’s not impossible, but a bunch of concrete floor plates held up by pillars don’t really wear out normally. And amalgamating lots of hospitals into one mega-hospital is just not a good way of serving a large area like our city.