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Originally Posted by Mr.Coffee
But I’m not sure why we decided to build an Alberta Childrens Hospital with roughly the same amount of beds as the previous, making sure we get a gigantic cafeteria, Good Earth, gift shop and other coffee shop in there plus other seemingly wasteful spaces, (this isn’t a mall and doesn’t need to be FFS)
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I know a former Alberta Deputy Minister quite well. I can't speak to the Children's specifically, but I do know the reason the South Health Campus ended up with a very small bed count yet has huge room sizes and things like an indoor climbing wall was, in fact, due to government issues at the time.
They had a massive infrastructure budget to spend, but staffing budgets for AHS meant that building too many beds would have poor optics as they wouldn't be staffed and in use. Hopefully they designed these buildings to facilitate renovations that can claw back some of the less useful space.