11-11-2020, 09:18 PM
I'm not an expert on our healthcare system, but as far as I understand it, there are only a few main trauma centers in Ontario and the distribution is mainly based on geography. The Central South RTN that we're in is actually one of the smaller ones geographically. The ultimate question is whether patients are better served by having a tertiary trauma centre in Waterloo-Wellington area or a larger center in Hamilton. A local centre would likely see improved time to treatment, but it would likely not have the breadth of expertise that a larger, single trauma centre would have. As it stands right now, with Hamilton having one of the smallest referral bases in the province geographically, I'd lean toward the greater benefit being access to a larger centre.