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Old Posted Mar 23, 2009, 5:49 PM
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Considering the Blood Scandal you'd think they'd be careful about cutting any corners. Or is 5 years ago ancient history.
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Old Posted Mar 23, 2009, 6:00 PM
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They were probably looking at covering themselves after the blood scandal when they last emphasized that they'd have nurses doing the screening... and now they're probably waking up to the fact that it's not that tough of a job.

There's many more difficult jobs where a nurse can be hired for them, but nurses with their general background aren't as well trained as techs with less, but more specialized training. e.g. any nurse can put on sticky pads and perform an ECG, but very few are trained to read ECGs to the extent that a cardiovascular technologist with 2 years of training JUST in heart pathophysiology and interpreting ECGs is - the same with many other techs that take 2, 3, 4 years of training just in one thing.

When you need something done a few times, a nurse is great. When you need one specific task performed over and over, hire the person with more specialized training in that particular task - whom you need to pay less than a nurse. It's a no-brainer for ECGs.

This one should be another no-brainer. Nurses should be hired for nursing, not questionnaire-taking. It's not invasive, requires administrering no medication... nothing that requires nursing or registration with a college of professionals. Even if they end up plunking Grade 12 graduates through a 2-week or 4-month course or something of the sort, it's still more training on that particular task than any nurse is given, and instead of 70k they can pay them 30k.

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You guys should check out the renovations happening at MUMC. Huge difference is happening.

MUMC is like a maze with all twist and turns and has four blocks where it's open for sunlight, think it was done to have a smoking section. But you can't smoke in the area anymore.

So they've sealed in one section with skylights and probably 20 long hanging lamps with hardwood walls. It's a 3 storey artium, it's beautiful. Cost $15 million.

Here's the rendering...



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Old Posted May 8, 2010, 9:31 PM
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nice digs

Wonder how many nurses got laid off or could be hired for patient care at this price. Health care = service to the patient not taj mahal buildings.
Is it any wonder we are in the situation we are?
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Old Posted May 8, 2010, 9:37 PM
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$15 million from the Farncombe Family.
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They are trying to keep it hush hush but HHS got a huge fine from the Ministry of Labour recently for asbesto at MUMC.
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Steve Buist's Critical Condition series in today's Spec casts a shadow on local health care.

Failing Grades On the LHIN Report Card

"Hamilton's Local Health Integration Network ranks 11th out of Ontario's 14 LHINs, based on the results of a massive health-care report card created by The Hamilton Spectator. Only the province's three northern LHINs fared worse than the Hamilton Niagara Haldimand Brant LHIN, which has a $2.5-billion budget to co-ordinate health-care services for 1.4 million people from Burlington to Brantford to Simcoe to Fort Erie... The Hamilton-area LHIN finished last in the cancer category, 13th out of 14 in the wait times category and 11th in the long-term care/home care category."

Performance indicators for our LHIN have apparently been trending lower in recent years.

"The Hamilton-area Local Health Integration Network failed to meet 10 of 11 targets in its most recent accountability report, the worst result of Ontario’s 14 LHINs. In fact, the local LHIN’s performance actually worsened for three of the indicators compared to the previous year."

Among the Spec's wait-time findings for the HNHB LHIN:

• It took 41 days for nine out of 10 people to get a CT scan, tied for the longest wait in the province. By contrast, it took just 14 days for nine out of 10 people to get a CT scan in the Central West LHIN, the best in Ontario.

• When all MRI variables were combined, the HNHB LHIN finished last in the province.

• Just over half of the HNHB LHIN’s Priority 2 MRI scans were done within the provincial target time. In the North Simcoe-Muskoka LHIN, by contrast, 94 per cent of priority 2 MRIs were done within the target.

• Only 15 per cent of HNHB LHIN’s Priority 4 MRI scans were done within the target wait time.

• The HNHB LHIN had the fourth-worst wait time for hip replacement surgery. It took 235 days for nine out of 10 patients to have their hips replaced, compared to 93 days in the Erie St. Clair LHIN."
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Old Posted Mar 12, 2012, 3:54 PM
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As someone who has been waiting 10 months for knee surgery, I can attest to the findings.

I recently called the doctors office to try and find out how much longer and the answer I got was soon, with a laugh.

The MRI wait wasn't as long as they have indicated though. I only waited 6 days. But the appointment for the MRI was at 2 am at St. Joes.

A guy I work with lives up in the Orangeville area. He was diagnosed with a shoulder problem requiring surgery in February this year and is having surgery next week. It almost makes me want to move.

Something drastic needs to be done.
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McMaster Children’s Hospital building $100m treatment centre beside HGH (Hamilton Spectator, Mark McNeil, Mar 20, 2012)

Hamilton’s new $100 million Children’s Treatment Centre will be located near the General Hospital on Wellington Street North, in an area of the city that hospital administrators say is “one of Hamilton’s most vulnerable neighbourhoods.”

McMaster Children’s Hospital officials today made the surprise announcement that the five-storey, state-of-the-art building would not be built at the Chedoke site of Hamilton Health Sciences on the West Mountain, as originally planned.

Dr. Peter Fitzgerald, president of McMaster Children’s Hospital, said after further consideration hospital administrators realized they didn’t necessarily have to construct the facility where the services are currently being offered. They decided to consider a wider range of possibilities.

“We started being introspective,” he said. “We stepped back ... and wondered what is the best location for all of Hamilton and the region.”

He noted the lower city site is surrounded by neighbourhoods identified in The Spectator’s award-winning Code Red series as having high rates of poverty that went hand in hand with poor health.

Colleen Fotheringham, director Autism, Child and Youth Mental Health and Development Pediatrics and Rehabilitation, says she expects the new facility will handle 70,000 visits a year from more than 20,000 patients. She expects numbers will increase slightly because the new location is more accessible by public transportation than the Chedoke site.
Construction is to begin in 2014 with completion anticipated in 2016.

Last summer Laurel Broten, who was then Ontario’s minister of children and youth services, announced that Hamilton Health Sciences would receive full funding for the building that would replace four rundown Chedoke sites that house programs for young people.

The 170,000 square foot treatment centre – which will feature an outdoor track, a therapeutic playground, physiotherapy space and a motion lab – will be built on Wellington just north of Barton Street East on Hamilton Health Sciences owned property that is currently used for parking.

The facility will house outpatient services, and be the base for in-home and community services, for autism spectrum disorders, child and youth mental health, developmental pediatrics and rehabilitation programs, and prosthetics and orthotics.

“I think this is huge for the city,” said Fitzgerald. “This is a $100 million project. It will provide new facilities for a very needy group of patients and families that to date have not received not much investment from a facility point of view.

“This is spectacular for the city...this is great news for us I am sure other communities are quite jealous.”
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That General Hospital site is getting to be huge with all of the expansion they've done in the last 10 years. It has made that area look very different.
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Great news. It would be nice if the building faced onto Barton ~ maybe the NW corner of Wellington ~ but it sounds like it might go in behind somewhere.

Hope they release some pics soon.
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Great news. It would be nice if the building faced onto Barton ~ maybe the NW corner of Wellington ~ but it sounds like it might go in behind somewhere.

Hope they release some pics soon.
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This why they built the big parking lot across Barton Street!
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They couldn't have fronted the building on Barton since the General Hospital building fronts pretty much the entire stretch of Barton from Victoria to Wellington. I personally would have preferred if they had built the building on one of the lots that they just turned into parking, either the one beside the Mark Preece House on Barton or the ex-brownfield across the street. It's still great to see some more building in that area either way though.
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There were also plans to build an Administrative Office at the corner of Victoria and Birge, former Heliport area. Don't know if that's still an option.

It's gonna be kinda odd to have a children therapeutic playground and outdoor track right next to the Barton jail.
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Not really, it will be fronting Wellington Street, with Ferguson between it and the jail. But I guess we can get all worked up by sensationalizing the Hollywood-style possibility of escaped convicts taking sick children hostage...
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^Nobody's suggesting that.

Having lived a stone's throw from the jail a few years back, I can tell you it's a little depressing seeing it everyday. It makes that part of town just a little grimmer than it would otherwise be. It's not about safety, it's about optics.

I just hope that any new buildings at the General are not hidden in behind but are built near Barton where people can see them.
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Infrastructure Ontario's just-released Upcoming Projects Update (Nov 2012) contains one Hamilton project:

Hamilton Health Sciences' McMaster Children's Treatment Centre
Proposed Model: Design Build Finance
Issue RFQ: Summer 2012
Issue RFP: Spring 2013
Cost: Less than $100M (Construction Cost Only)

Pretty near the front of the line, too -- only three spots behind Waterloo LRT and six behind Ottawa LRT.
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R2-D2 look-alike helps clean hospital rooms of superbugs
(Toronto Star, Joseph Hall, January 18, 2013)

The ominous list of acronyms and contractions can spell illness and death for tens of thousands of hospital patients in Canada each year.

Now, in the battle against such superbugs as C. difficile, MRSA and VRE, a robot that emits UV-3 light is entering the fray.

Bearing a passing resemblance to R2-D2 of Star Wars fame, this droid emits short blasts of high-powered ultraviolet light to rid hospital beds, bathrooms and ICUs of the potentially lethal pathogens.

“We’ve seen (in independent studies) reductions of 50 per cent or more in hospital-acquired infection rates,” says Mark Stibich, the inventor of the Xenex Robot System and chief scientific officer of the San Antonio company.

“And it can be used in every area of the hospital 24 hours a day.”

The system, which is being used in about 100 U.S. facilities, will soon begin a pilot run atHamilton Health Sciences hospitals, an HHS spokesperson says.

Wheeled between vacated rooms by cleaning staff, the robot lifts and dips its saucer-like head, pulsing millisecond blasts of UV-3 light, bathing surfaces and fixtures, and penetrating the crevices and dark places where the germs can lurk.

One of three types of ultraviolet radiation — UV-1, and UV-2 being the others — UV-3 has the power to drill into and “gunk up” the bacterial DNA that directs the superbugs to spread.

“At that point the organism can no longer replicate and at that point it’s no longer infectious,” Stibich says.

The light, produced by a xenon gas-fired lamp, can also obliterate the walls of the single-celled organisms for a faster kill, Stibich says.

The device is used in conjunction with traditional bleach cleaning. But with a welder’s arch brightness to its ultraviolet blasts, the robot must be left on its own when used in rooms and other hospital spaces.

At $95,000 plus a $1,500 monthly service charge, the robot isn’t cheap.

But the company argues it’s cost effective, given that superbugs can infect about 10 per cent of Canadian patients annually, adding billions of dollars to the country’s health care costs.
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