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This is a $2-billion redevelopment that is long overdue. Construction should start in 2020.
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Looks awesome. Not sure how true the "renderings" are, but this is the best orientation of the siteplan I can get:
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This is outside of the HRM by Design planning area. Will it be included in the Centre Plan? I wonder if they will follow HRM by Design level urban design guidelines, or if it will be a giant inward-facing bunker? I realize that a hospital complex design is likely to be highly constrained but I bet a lot can be done to make it look and function better than what was built in the 70's and 80's.
The corner building at Bell Road and Summer Street is going to be prominent. I wonder if the St. Pat's redevelopment will get going around the same time or if that will turn into another Bloomfield. This area might change really quickly. |
Well, so much for the community garden. :) :haha:
Seriously though, as a healthcare professional, this is the only way to go. The VGH was already an old hospital when I was a medical student there, and I'm 61 years old now!!! All tertiary services should be in a single location - no question. a $2B project!! Wow. I knew when they eventually did this the cost would be well north of a billion, but I didn't think it would be as much as two billion. No wonder they're going for a triple-P model for construction......... |
Is the parkade coming down, or are they going to build on top of it?
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It looks like they will maximize the space and build on top of the parkade. I am wondering what will happen to the Old QE2 site? If they were to sell this site, I am sure the real estate would be worth in the 10's of millions if not 100's of millions as this is PRIME real estate and could very well be a big part of paying for the new hospital.I will go ever further and suggest they do what some churches have done and lease the land on a 99 year lease, rather than sell the land outright, thereby having a permanent income.
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"Construction should start in 2020."
Sure they will, don't think any sane person would bet on that. |
Citadel High was built on Common Land... unless there are plans for a major urban park, I can see this being allowed to be built on...
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My sense of the use of the word development is that the development is privately owned. So I don't use the term for public land, and things built on public land. Other folks might use it for any building being built. |
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Announcing the building of hospitals, isn't that something that usually happens just before an election call?
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Critically ill patients often require a team approach for their management, with interdisciplinary cooperation and frequent case conferences. Sub specialization improves patient care, but as physicians travel down that particular path, they become hyperfocussed, and rely on other subspecialists to manage the patient in totality. For example a trauma patient with multiple fractures and muscle contusions causing myolysis and myoglobinuria resulting in acute renal failure, also significant chest trauma leading to myocardial contusion which physiologically mimics a myocardial infarction, and pulmonary contusion which can lead to ARDS. All of a sudden this patient can require orthopods, nephrologists, cardiologists and repirologists, let alone general surgeons, intensivists, traumatologists, interventional radiologists etc. These patients need to be managed in a comprehensive tertiary care hospital providing all services on site. The new expanded Infirmary should shine for this type of stuff. :tup: |
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My fear is that those nutbars will demand a big chunk of the VG site for that purpose once it is leveled. And our HRM Council will probably think that is a good idea. |
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The idea that a parking lot for a hospital is somehow in keeping with the sacredness of this land because it is a "public" use (whereas a parking lot of a privately operated hospital would be inappropriate for example) is a bit silly. The city should look at the planning needs of today and consider what level of investment it wants to put into parkland and what the opportunity costs are. |
I think there's an interesting opportunity to reconnect Tower Road to Cathedral Lane, and break up the hospital megablock a bit. The parking lot land could be redeveloped in a variety of ways, but grassy field is not a great idea in my opinion. The land currently occupied by the VG and Bethune buildings is a pretty big footprint too, so there's opportunity there. I assume the Mackenzie and Dickson buildings will stay put for now?
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I'm hoping later this fall to make a announcement on a major R&D project I'm driving forward on MR imaging in acute care. It will be a really cool project looking ultimately on health system wide outcome measures as the potential impact of the new technology, and one of the best parts is that it will cost the Dept of Health a grand total of $0 over the 4 year project in large part because of the significant private funding investment I've got coming into this. Once I am able to say more I'll send it your way, as it will be an interesting example of trying out a totally different approach to patient management for neuro cases in the ED. It's a cool opportunity for the QEII to be doing "first in patients" testing in partnership with the medical industry. |
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