Hospitals in KW

[the_conestoga_guy]

I thought this came up earlier and it was noted that GRH will be keeping its emergency room. Maybe I'm mistaken, though, because I can't remember the source for this.

It has always been the plan to shut the emergency department in both St Mary's and Grand River..always the plan and it has been reviewed as correct on here.   I just Wazed to see how long from my house in the Lackner Woods area to where the new hosptial woud be.  Between 18 and 24 mins depending on route.   I will be faster to go to Cambridge

I believe this is where I pulled the info from: "The midtown Kitchener-Waterloo Campus would be transformed into an ambulatory and urgent care centre." 

https://futureofcaretogether.ca/site-sel...-hospital/

I think I confused ambulatory with emergency care... but to be honest I'm not entirely sure what the difference if from a user perspective. It seems GRH is where you'd go if you don't expect to be admitted into care, but still need immediate attention? Whereas the UW hospital will be for emergency visits where you expect to be admitted into inpatient care?