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    Thursday July 12th, 2012

    Posted at 3:40pm

    City News

    Hotel Dieu Grace Hospital on Ouellette Avenue

    A task force has been launched to look at the needs of future hospital services, and where those services are provided in the Windsor region, with a focus at looking into building a new, single site acute care hospital.

    The task force is looking for input from local health care experts and community stakeholders to answer the following questions:

    • Would a new, single site acute care hospital improve the delivery of acute care services in Windsor-Essex?
    • Would a new single site acute care facility provide good value for money?
    • If there is community support for a new hospital, what other considerations must be addressed during subsequent planning phases?

    Today a website was launched, and Windsorites are asked to visit it, read the consultation paper and provide feed back to the members of the task force.   Consultation with he community will take place all summer long with a recommendation expected sometime late fall.

     

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    • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=551571804 Walt Tessling

      If there isn’t enough money now for health care,Where would the money come from for a super health care facility, Maybe spend that money on what we have and use it

    • Ronfaubert40

      absolutely not!! it just doesnt make any sense
      whatsoever.With all of the money that has been
      spent in windsor hospitals WRH ,just had a new
      cancer center built ,western campus just opened
      there new mental ward ,, like what the hell are you guys thinkin,,
      wheres all the money from the lottery system that
      was set up to help fund our health care ,,not to mention
      that our government gets 37.7 cent per litre of gas sold in ontario
      and to top it off you cut doctors the professionals that spent
      years in med school to have its own government cheap out on
      them,, the government is throwin money around like rockstars,,
      this road there building here is an abomination!!!
      do you think the people of michigan are gonna vote that
      new bridge in??dont forget the manpower its gonna take
      to run a new border crossing ,,,

      you dummies ,,, step it up a bit and give the hard workers
      a break for a change and pay the doctors what there worth
      well you know they are tryin to help people!!!

    • windsor_resident

      Consolidation of our 2 hospitals into one “mega-hospital” is a reason for concern. We have already lost one of our hospitals (Grace) and emergency services at another (Windsor Regional). Bring all services into one mega site (out in the suburbs?) will be a move that brings services away from the people. This is no different that when they consolidate 2 or 3 schools into 1 mega school that forces children to be bussed from miles away. Consolidate hospitals and it will take that much longer to get there when there is an emergency.

    • Jenny

      Need to prevent the illness, not try to cure it afterwards. Why not find away to impose penalties to the all the factories, US and Canadian, that are poisoning our air and making people here sick. We need the clean up the city of sickness causing problems. Enforce litter laws more strongly the like to get trash off the streets that attract disease carrying pests. Put in electric car friendly charging stations and electric bike rentals. More bike friendly routes around the city for commuting, not just recreation use.

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