Hospitals in KW

[ijmorlan]

Post #65.  To which one could add the new (2021) hospital in Vaughan (25 hectares).

I'd reframe the argument a bit. There are other large, wastefully sprawling hospital campuses. But there are also large, major hospitals on smaller sites. Ergo, it is possible, if we choose, to put it on a smaller plot.

Oh indeed! That Vaughan site (which I hadn’t heard of before) is about the same 60 acres, but doesn’t change my opinion one bit — just because there is one other huge hospital, doesn’t mean that’s the way to go. It’s even possible it could make sense for some hospital somewhere to be huge (maybe a centre for treatment of unusual conditions drawing people from across the country?), and it still wouldn’t be the right thing for Waterloo’s new hospital. It cannot possibly make sense for our only emergency department to be out in the suburbs, for example.

I took a look at the hospital on Google Maps. Couldn’t be more suburban, although to be fair Vaughan is entirely suburban so it might not matter. And what is the name of that murderer Marco Muzzo doing on the main tower?

https://globalnews.ca/news/3677574/marco...-donation/

(note: he was not convicted of murder; that is my assessment of his moral culpability)

But it’s got a green roof so I guess it’s OK.