The cost for the Calgary’s new south hospital has now exceeded $1 billion, more than double the $500 million estimate of four years ago.
And Calgary Health Region officials concede the $1.11 billion price tag for just the first phase of the South Health Campus will almost certainly rise.
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The CHR’s board today approved phase one of the hospital, which is scheduled to open in early 2011 with 260 beds and grow to 432 beds in 2014.
Phase two, to be completed by 2017-18, will bump up the total number of beds to 642 but funding for that part of the project hasn’t been assessed, said region officials.
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Meanwhile, the CHR is in discussion with the city over building a new north medical centre on the approaches to Airdrie, to possibly be built in 2017-2020, said President Jack Davis.
“Planning on health care really needs to be done in the 15-20 year horizon,” said Davis.
Unfortunately, it seems this hospital will be the smallest adult hospital in the city until 2017-18 as the Rockyview General Hospital has 500 beds, the Peter Lougheed Centre has 506 beds, and the Foothills Medical Centre has 777 beds.
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The city is in a sad state of affairs when it come to Hospitals. Just build the damn thing, it will never get any cheaper to do so. By the time its done there will be another 100,000 people in the city I'm sure. We need at least one more Hospital now.
Lack of hospitals isn't the only problem. Even if the new hospital opened today, there wouldn't be enough medical staff to adequately run the place.
Beds have been closed at existing hospitals because there aren't enough qualified staff to operate the place. The problem is more about personell than it is about physical bed space.
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The city is in a sad state of affairs when it come to Hospitals. Just build the damn thing, it will never get any cheaper to do so. By the time its done there will be another 100,000 people in the city I'm sure. We need at least one more Hospital now.
I work in the CHR and I completely agree. All winter we were getting status burgundy called around once an hour which means there are no beds left.
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Hospitals aren't the problem. Even if the new hospital opened today, there wouldn't be enough medical staff to adequately run the place.
Beds have been closed at existing hospitals because there aren't enough qualified staff to operate the place. The problem is more about personell than it is about physical bed space.
This is also true. I counted recently and the region had 350 open nursing positions.
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Lack of hospitals isn't the only problem. Even if the new hospital opened today, there wouldn't be enough medical staff to adequately run the place.
Beds have been closed at existing hospitals because there aren't enough qualified staff to operate the place. The problem is more about personell than it is about physical bed space.
So true the New childerns hospital has about 50-75 beds closed due to lack of staff. Drives me crazy when everyone talks about building hospitals but no one talks about the staff shortage.
I'm sure you all have a story or have heard one like this:
My buddy (originally from High River), now living in Australia comes back to Calgary on a work contract, and he brings his girlfriend. She, worked in Perth at a hospital, and was a Head Nurse on her shift. She decided to go look for a nursing job in Calgary. This was the same day that the Sun had "Nurse Shortage, Nurses Badly Needed" as the cover Story. When she applied, she was turned away, due to the fact that in Canada we don't recognise Nursing education from Australia. Now come on, why wouldn't we recognise a nurse from another commonwealth country? Is the program in Australia that different from the one in Canada?? I don't understand why they wouldn't have at least given her a job that a starting nurse would recieve. ie care giving, bed pan duty, etc.
If there is a shortage, maybe health Canada should look into who might be qualified in comparison to Canadian standards when it comes to Nurses and Doctors. Maybe this has already been looked at, but to me, it seems that common sense is lacking.
Yeah thanks. Those people in De Winton are going to have a world class medical facility in about 15 years.
The funny thing is in the Sun article the guy says "with populuation growth, by 2014 we'll need two trauma units". Don't we need two trauma units right now? And I find it a little odd that both trauma units will be south of Glenmore.
I'm sure you all have a story or have heard one like this:
My buddy (originally from High River), now living in Australia comes back to Calgary on a work contract, and he brings his girlfriend. She, worked in Perth at a hospital, and was a Head Nurse on her shift. She decided to go look for a nursing job in Calgary. This was the same day that the Sun had "Nurse Shortage, Nurses Badly Needed" as the cover Story. When she applied, she was turned away, due to the fact that in Canada we don't recognise Nursing education from Australia. Now come on, why wouldn't we recognise a nurse from another commonwealth country? Is the program in Australia that different from the one in Canada?? I don't understand why they wouldn't have at least given her a job that a starting nurse would recieve. ie care giving, bed pan duty, etc.
If there is a shortage, maybe health Canada should look into who might be qualified in comparison to Canadian standards when it comes to Nurses and Doctors. Maybe this has already been looked at, but to me, it seems that common sense is lacking.
This kind of bureaucratic equivalency nonsense is such a huge contributing factor to skilled worker shortages in so many fields and professions, it's sad. I can understand the need for some standards, but if the worker was trained/educated in the developed world, there's got to be a better way of getting them to work in Canada than exists currently.
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Forget building a new hospital in Calgary on the north edges, build it in Airdrie proper. Its ridiculous that a city of 30,000 does not have a hospital.
Yeah thanks. Those people in De Winton are going to have a world class medical facility in about 15 years.
The funny thing is in the Sun article the guy says "with populuation growth, by 2014 we'll need two trauma units". Don't we need two trauma units right now? And I find it a little odd that both trauma units will be south of Glenmore.
How do you figure?
The Trauma Centre for southern Alberta is the Foothills Hospital. Which is on 16th ave NW.
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This kind of bureaucratic equivalency nonsense is such a huge contributing factor to skilled worker shortages in so many fields and professions, it's sad. I can understand the need for some standards, but if the worker was trained/educated in the developed world, there's got to be a better way of getting them to work in Canada than exists currently.
Ya I know a few stories that are just ridiculous. APEGGA I'M Looking at you!!!
The Trauma Centre for southern Alberta is the Foothills Hospital. Which is on 16th ave NW.
Whoops. I must have misread or something. The Rockyview is the only hospital I've been to and it has a trauma centre. At least I think it does. I know ambulances go there so I figured it was.
edit: I think I am confusing the terms "trauma centre" and "emergency room". What is a trauma centre?
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