03-01-2023, 12:17 AM
(02-28-2023, 11:19 PM)ac3r Wrote: Correct. The developer was considering partnering with the Grand River Hospital Foundation to potentially include 13 hotel rooms who could rent to families of very long term patients.
It is an interesting idea but I am unsure how realistic the proposal would have been. Does anyone know if the final approval included this? In any case I wouldn't be surprised if it was cancelled since this is an acute care hospital for the most part. The only real semi-long term care units there are some in the medicine, oncology and maybe a few in mental health who need to be in the PICU but they aren't there that long anyway. Plus with the announcement of GRH planning a new major regional hospital in the near further while transforming this one into an even more acute focused hospital, I would think the developers would just cancel the idea and put in some extra regular rental units.
Looking at the approved plans it still shows the third floor containing the 13 hospital foundation units as well as a lounge and administrative spaces for the hospital foundation. So currently it looks like the plan is still the same as it originally was.