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Mapleton gets more money
Province adds another $2 million to investment in the main gateway to Metro Moncton
The City of Moncton will be moving ahead with work on Mapleton Road from Trinity to Highway 2, the Trans-Canada Highway next year and now they will have another $2 million for the project overall coming from the New Brunswick government
By Brent Mazerolle
Times & Transcript Staff
Published Wednesday December 12th, 2007
Appeared on page A4
Moncton Mayor Lorne Mitton says he doesn't believe in going to Fredericton to beg.
That's why on his half-dozen visits to the capital in search of funding for Mapleton Road upgrades, he's focused on making a business case for provincial government investment instead.
To do that, Mitton carries Exhibit A, an aerial photo showing all the commercial development already in the Mapleton Road area, complete with dollar figures of how much these enterprises pay in property tax.
The map is chock full of numbers that are themselves chock full of commas. If that's not impressive enough, the City of Moncton will soon be able to produce a new photo with a pair of massive new developments on the horizon, the horizon in this case being just east of Mapleton Road, where Ashford Properties and Halifax's McCrea brothers are preparing to build large scale retail developments.
With all that in the works, it seems reasonable the province would add an extra $2 million to the fund which will pave the way for this growing economic engine.
Mayor Mitton confirmed that was indeed the case yesterday, responding to a report in yesterday's Times & Transcript suggesting the provincial Department of Transportation had allotted more money to upgrading the gateway to Moncton in its 2008-2009 budget. The province had already pledged $3 million towards the road project in April and agreed then to assume the full cost of widening its bridge over Wheeler Boulevard to six lanes.
"I now have $8 million (from the province) counting the bridge, five from Plaza to the Trans-Canada Highway and $3 million for the bridge," Mitton said.
He added the provincial government is also coming through with the first portion of the money in 2008, meaning they will provide $1.7 million next year instead of the originally planned $1 million. That contribution will be repeated in the next two years.
"This is really good," he said. "I thought they'd put most of it on the tail end."
Mitton said he was pleased to see the progress on Mapleton, which he identified as one of his top priorities when he ran for mayor in 2004. "It is now and it will become moreso the primary entrance way into Moncton."
Apart from the sound business case for the province helping to prepare the area for more development, Mitton said the efforts of Moncton North MLA and provincial health minister Michael Murphy made a huge difference in securing the funds.
The next step is to get to work.
"We've got a lot of design work to do and land to buy," Mitton said. "We're hoping to get it done in two years but it might (take a bit longer). We'll work from Trinity to Trans Canada starting next year."
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Moncton Hospital leads nation again
The Moncton Hospital, Sackville Memorial Hospital have lowest mortality ratios of health centres studied from across the country
Times & Transcript Staff
Published Wednesday December 12th, 2007
Appeared on page A10
The Moncton Hospital leads the nation with the lowest rating of patient mortality, a new study shows.
The hospital standardized mortality ratio was studied in Regional Health Authorities and at acute care hospitals across Canada, except Quebec.
HSMR compares the actual number of deaths in a hospital or region with the average Canadian experience after adjusting for factors that affect in-hospital mortality such as age, sex, diagnoses and admission status of patients.
The Canadian average is set at 100, with hospitals or RHAs scoring above 100 having more deaths than average and those scoring lower than 100 having fewer.
The South-East Regional Health Authority heard at their monthly meeting last night that the results for The Moncton Hospital and Sackville Memorial Hospital were, for the last three years, 55, 65 and 59 respectively, the lowest in the study.
"We're very pleased with these results," said Nancy Roberts, vice-president of planning and professional services for SERHA.
"That recognizes some of the initiatives we've been involved with for many years ... and the strong culture of quality improvement here. We're certainly very pleased that all of our efforts over the years have yielded these results."
Authority CEO and president Donn Peters attributed the stellar numbers to staff who always strive to improve all areas of hospital care and are never complacent when success shines its light on their efforts.
Hospitals in the United Kingdom and the United States have been using HSMR results to track in-hospital mortality and to target areas for improvement for a number of years. This is the first time the same measuring tape has been put to hospitals in Canada. The data was compiled by the Canadian Institute for Health Information which collects and analyzes information on health and health care in Canada and makes it publicly available.
The HSMR measure focuses on 65 diagnosis groups that account for 80 per cent of in-hospital deaths, excluding palliative care. The five diagnoses that had the highest numbers of deaths were heart attack, heart failure, pneumonia, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and septicemia.
Peters noted the ratio is all the more impressive at SERHA because it is both an acute care hospital and a regional trauma centre, meaning the exceptional number was achieved despite the fact The Moncton Hospital receives some of the sickest patients in the province.
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I can dream...Also we have two of the largest insurance companies in Atlantic Canada here (assumption and blue cross)...one of Canadas largest fencing companies (Eastern fence) and one of Canadas largest fast food chains. (Pizza Delight/Mikes/Baton Rouge etc). We also have the largest online based real estate company in Canada basd in Moncton (ProperyGuys.com)
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