Well maybe I missed something so I will look in to it all. Last thing I remember was Falcon becoming health minister and he himself squashing the idea within what seemed like weeks of taking his position. At the same time he spun it as a informed and caring decision because his mom spent her entire life working at the hospital as a nurse.
I will though go and see if I missed something important within the last year.
Keep in mind that with this move Mount St.Joseph would also at the same time further reduce its services and most of its land can be sold and redeveloped especially when taking its location in to account. This money would also go back in to health care, plus the increased efficiency of a modern and better located hospital would also offer significant savings in operational costs.
my friend is working at st josephs now he can pick up shifts at either since providence runs both - i don't know if they would shut it down - he says st josephs primarily caters to the chinese
I think a new hospital would be great but from stuff he says and reading it doesn't sound doable as long as its providence doing it they just don't have the money or get the same kind of government money
It does seem to be a little ridiculous to have a modern hospital in a heritage building. More than probably any other type of building (apart from perhaps an auto or airplane manufacturing facility) a hospital seems to have the most to gain by being designed from the ground up with efficiency, safety, and adaptability in mind.
A facility that is as old and unsafe as St. Pauls shouldn't have hundreds of millions poured into to it in my opinion. I believe a hospital should remain on the site, but in a much reduced capacity, with all of the more life-threatening and emergency care moved to a new facility on the False Creek Flats. Yes it would cost twice as much but we would be getting much more than two times the hospital.
Apple, Oracle, HP, Intel and eBay have teamed up to help fund a new Stanford Medical Centre and rumor has it that the architect in charge of Apple's retail stores will be at the helm. I think we can be reasonably sure that will be a kick ass hospital.
From the sounds of the redevelopment plan, there won't be hundreds of millions poured into the old buildings. Rather, most of the old buildings will come down and the money will go into new construction. The exception being the iconic Burrard Building - I would assume that would get seismic upgrading and would be used for administration. I agree, updating that building seems a bit of a waste, but it is on the heritage register. The two towers date from 1983 and 1991, so aren't that old.
What was the proposed budget of the new hospital? Around the $1B range I thought? And these new proposals on the existing site are in the ~$300-400m range?
It's prime time for these things to be happening as the leadership races for the NDP and Liberals are still on. Any bets on who will promise a new hospital? Clark maybe?
I wonder if the NDP won't, since a new hospital means less juicy contracts for their union buddies.
From the sounds of the redevelopment plan, there won't be hundreds of millions poured into the old buildings. Rather, most of the old buildings will come down and the money will go into new construction. The exception being the iconic Burrard Building - I would assume that would get seismic upgrading and would be used for administration. I agree, updating that building seems a bit of a waste, but it is on the heritage register. The two towers date from 1983 and 1991, so aren't that old.
yah most of the old will be demolished and a whole new facility will rise and not much of the old will be left
Truth be told, it will be a bit of an uphill slog for her to do so, but the NPA has been agressively announcing policy planks like this one about St. Pauls, while Vision has been largely invisible so far.
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From the sounds of the redevelopment plan, there won't be hundreds of millions poured into the old buildings. Rather, most of the old buildings will come down and the money will go into new construction. The exception being the iconic Burrard Building - I would assume that would get seismic upgrading and would be used for administration. I agree, updating that building seems a bit of a waste, but it is on the heritage register. The two towers date from 1983 and 1991, so aren't that old.
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