(06-24-2022, 10:48 AM)Rainrider22 Wrote: The plan is to make this hospital a new super hospital. It will be the only Emerg department in KW... That's a problem. if it isn't central.
I'm well acquainted with many of the higher administrative staff at GRH, so maybe I can ask around and see what sort of goals they're aiming to achieve. Maybe they can share some of the details as to how they're envisioning this new hospital to function like and where it might be. But yeah whatever the plan is now, it's be very preliminary and in early stages so they might have no idea.
It would be nice if they could buy the Sun Life parking lot nextdoor and build a new building there (putting all the parking underground). It's not a big location, but you could build a taller hospital (say 15-16 floors or more) and put a state of the art ER and acute care units there. Then, renovate and transform the existing building into chronic care units, maintain the GRH cancer centre, expand the AIMH/CAIP and PICA (adult inpatient mental health/child adolescent inpatient psychiatry/psychiatric intensive care area) and grow the outpatient stuff. Hell, they could purchase some property across the street even: the CTV studios are for sale and they could consolidate that, the CoK parking lot and that soccer field into one property and build another structure there, using some tunnels as well as walkways above ground to connect the two buildings. GRH is partnered with both the University of Waterloo and Conestoga College (and I think Laurier for psychology/social work) so they could even have that act as a teaching wing of the hospital. That way, it's all still very central to the region and can utilize existing space, rather than move it way out to the middle of nowhere.