Hospitals in KW

[ac3r]

That's not how I read it.

As part of the project, St. Mary’s nearly century-old building will be retired, while Grand River’s two existing sites will be renovated and repurposed. Grand River’s main site in Kitchener will focus on ambulatory and urgent care, and Freeport will expand its rehabilitation services — with St. Mary’s sharing these spaces as well.

https://www.therecord.com/news/waterloo-...pital.html

Ambulatory care refers to people who go in for testing, procedures and similar stuff. Urgent care would be for like, I don't know, people who broke a bone or have a sudden onset of something, but who just need quick care (a cast, antibiotics) and then leave. Comparable to a walk-in clinic as taylortbb said.

Acute care - which is what the new hospital is to focus on - is for sudden, urgent medical issues...i.e. the sort of stuff people go to an emergency department for.

While obviously nobody knows anything yet, chances are the new hospital will contain the main regional emergency unit and whatever else. Then, as I mentioned in a previous post, the existing hospital can focus on stuff like oncology (radiation, chemotherapy etc), mid-term psychiatric and addiction services, medicine unit, stroke unit...basically everything the hospital currently does, minus emergency stuff or surgery recovery.