The site as mentioned was the best location from what I heard, The other location was west of the Miz near the reserve. Yes the Province owns the lad to the south of the Henday and west of 127st. In fact the Body farm was in that location. This new hospital was to have the Acute Care 500 bed hospital as the central focus but was also to have a long term care Serniors facity and other parts that are not always associated with hospitals. The last price I heard was up around 4B.
 
Airboy said:
The site as mentioned was the best location from what I heard, The other location was west of the Miz near the reserve. Yes the Province owns the lad to the south of the Henday and west of 127st. In fact the Body farm was in that location. This new hospital was to have the Acute Care 500 bed hospital as the central focus but was also to have a long term care Serniors facity and other parts that are not always associated with hospitals. The last price I heard was up around 4B.
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I imagine the price will continue to climb for the foreseeable future even with the reduction to certain services on offer and value engineering. The province will need to accept that the cost is what it is given the past avoidance of building any new facilities.
 
edmontonidiot said:
Edmonton having a overburden health care system is a policy failure. A provincial policy failure that has nothing to do with this specific location being chosen. The provincial government for decades, chose not to invest.

We could have had multiple hospitals built in the past few decades, matching GDP and population growth. We chose not to do due poor policy, this has nothing to do this the planning of this specific location.
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The problem is that for at least 20 years under various Conservative governments, failure to spend on necessary facilities was spun as a "win", as a "savings" for taxpayers. And the public bought it. Spending on pretty much anything except the bare essentials was portrayed as an evil. The fact that migrants from other Canadian provinces (as well as immigrants from abroad) were moving to Alberta in great numbers was trumpeted by the provincial government as proof that they were on the right track. The inherent flaw in this logic, of course, was that the more people who move here, the more schools and hospitals and seniors' facilities and public transit you need. Simply keeping taxes to a bare minimum and building next to nothing to, you know, serve all those people who relocate to Alberta, is lunacy.

The fact that the metro population of the capital region has increased by more than 50% since 1988, yet no new hospitals have been built (Westview and Sturgeon were both replacements) is a disgrace.

What I do find humorous, however, are the number of self-described "former Progressive Conservatives" (many now NDP supporters) on this board who love to bash the UCP. These are the same people who, as Progressive Conservatives, supported and voted for underfunding of health care and an atrophying of hospital capacity under Klein and his successors.
 
I expect if they don't spend the money on this new hospital now, they will have to spend a significant amount soon to keep the Miz going or expand one of the other hospitals significantly.

Since the last new hospital in Edmonton was built it has been over 30 years and the city has doubled in size. You can't put things like this off forever.
 
David A said:
I expect if they don't spend the money on this new hospital now, they will have to spend a significant amount soon to keep the Miz going or expand one of the other hospitals significantly.

Since the last new hospital in Edmonton was built it has been over 30 years and the city has doubled in size. You can't put things like this off forever.
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I'm afraid of a 23 Avenue interchange situation here.

Recall that the 23 Avenue and Gateway Boulevard interchange was repeatedly put off by the City and its Councils. Meanwhile, the volume grew to the level that the intersection almost failed and became (at the low point) the most dangerous intersection in terms of accidents in Edmonton. When the problem was absolutely unavoidable, the City finally broke down and had the interchange constructed. But in the interim the price had skyrocketed and taxpayers ended up paying several times the original projected cost if the intersection hadn't been repeatedly delayed ($250M vs. $75 IIRC). Part of the problem was the fact that the procrastination meant that the project finally got built while the economy was red-hot and construction costs, materials, etc. were through the roof. There were also only two bidders--Kiewit and Graham--because other companies already had so much work on their hands.
 
The last hospital built in Edmonton was in the late 1980's. So no surprise to see stories like this and exactly why we need another now

 
David A said:
The last hospital built in Edmonton was in the late 1980's. So no surprise to see stories like this and exactly why we need another now

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Her Worshipfulness' constituents voted for this........and the way her priorities are focused on trains to Ian's faux rich playground of Canmore and building the fLamers a new arena........we shouldn't be surprised.......
 
Airboy said:
The site as mentioned was the best location from what I heard, The other location was west of the Miz near the reserve. Yes the Province owns the lad to the south of the Henday and west of 127st. In fact the Body farm was in that location. This new hospital was to have the Acute Care 500 bed hospital as the central focus but was also to have a long term care Serniors facity and other parts that are not always associated with hospitals. The last price I heard was up around 4B.
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Have you heard anything more recently about the future of this hospital?
 
MacLac said:
Her Worshipfulness' constituents voted for this........and the way her priorities are focused on trains to Ian's faux rich playground of Canmore and building the fLamers a new arena........we shouldn't be surprised.......
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I suppose we should get ready for more headlines just like this then.

Doctors say 2 Edmonton hospitals at 150% capacity, experiencing very long ER waits​

 
Smith's government has consistently treated Edmonton like a "fart in the room" to quote a conservative MP from a couple years ago speaking about Alberta. They have a vested interest in investing as little as possible in Edmonton, as an NDP stronghold. Don't expect to see any movement on any major provincial infrastructure projects in Edmonton until we don't have a UCP government anymore.
 
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