Hospitals in KW

[ijmorlan]

ST Mary's hospital currently has one of the highest survival rates in Canada if you suffer a cardiac event.  There are many reasons for this but one of the top reasons is it is quickly accessible.  Time is everything in a cardiac event.  If I suffer a cardiac event in my home once St Mary's closes,  the time it will take to get to the new hospital will likely cost my my life...  But oh well, its sexy to put a hospital on University land.

Unfortunately, we don't build hospitals for individuals, we build them for cities. People who live in the north end of Waterloo, or Elmira or Wellesley, will benefit from the new hospital location because it puts resources much closer to where they live. There was never going to be a location that makes everyone happy. (For me personally, the UW location will be twice as far away from my home as either GRH or StM).

Right, we build hospitalS.

A single location is obviously idiotic. The correct thing to do is to open a new location and keep the existing ones.

Any experts reading this who disagree: If I’m wrong, you should be able to explain briefly why and how. I promise to read and think carefully about anything you write before repeating my disagreement (or, in principle, changing my opinion, but I don’t see that as very likely in this case; at a minimum you must address the issue of resilience in the face of an ER-closing event).