Hospitals in KW

[ijmorlan]

Are you trying to imply we do not desperately need a new hospital?

No. I’m asking why we’re making it harder (and therefore likely to take longer and come to a worse decision) to build the hospital. Normally if something is urgent you do what you can to clear away obstacles, not create artificial ones for no good reason.

I don’t actually know enough about our hospitals to say that we definitely need a new hospital; for all I know, careful renovation of the existing ones could work. But it is entirely plausible that we need a new hospital; the city has grown a lot since the last new hospital, so it’s entirely believable that we need more locations and more space.

What is not believable is that there is any reason at all for the new hospital to be on 50 acres. It is also not believable that reducing the number of emergency departments is a reasonable thing to do. The new hospital should have a state-of-the-art emergency department, and all the existing ones should remain open to provide good coverage of the city.

In principle, I’m open to an expert explanation of why I’m wrong. But in practice, I know BS when I see it.