Brampton Peel Memorial Hospital | 73.14m | 12s | Infrastructure ON | HOK

[TOareaFan]

This thread fell behind....the new facility was well under construction...until tonight that is ...it is now engulfed in flames and looks like work to-date will all be lost

 

[interchange42]

Well, a few months later and not all was lost; in fact topping off was yesterday, and we have a front page story here and a new dataBase file with renderings here.

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[interchange42]

Here are some of the pics from the front page story, and some more:

Mayor Linda Jeffrey:

Neil Davis, Vice Chair of the Board of Directors of the William Osler Health System, and son of the former Premier:

Adding our logo to the I-beam:

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[TOareaFan]

It is a spectacular facility .....but it is not what Brampton needed and, in fact still needs.

The closing paragraph of this update says it all:

Built on the site of the former Peel Memorial Hospital, the new health centre comes online almost a decade after the 2007 opening of the Brampton Civic Hospital. While the 608-bed Civic Hospital nearly doubled the capacity of the former 367-bed Peel Memorial, the region's extremely rapid population growth—which has brought almost 300,000 new residents to the City since the turn of the millennium—meant that the new Civic Hospital quickly reached capacity, necessitating another new facility.

Just as the new facility was opening this news was breaking........ http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/canada/toronto/brampton-woman-hospital-hallway-1.4070379

Too add insult to injury, the premier's answer to this bed crisis and overcrowded emergency ward was that this new Peel Memorial is the solution!

What Brampton desperately needs on the health front is:

1. More Beds.....this facility does not have any
2. A second emergency.....this facility does not have one.

While the bed issue is easy to see/quantify when patients with severe and life threatening illnesses are kept for multiple days on stretchers in corridors....the second one is more subtle....it is not just relieving the stress/wait times at the country's busiest emergency ward...it is creating some back up if, for whatever reason, that emergency ward has to close temporarily.......remember ebola?.....Canada got off pretty free from that epedemic....but the first "scare" was at Brampton Civic....a patient walked into the emerge a few days after returning from a trip to Africa exhibiting symptoms.....turned out not to be ebola but if it had that busy emerge, the only one in a city of, now, 600k people would have to have been closed....and that is unacceptable.

I have read the reports and I have understood that there is a push towards these "get em in and out" bedless health care facilities.....but I wonder if:

1. perhaps in a city the size of Brampton that should have been done with its 3rd facility....not it's 2nd; and
2. if that is the way of the future, why we are not looking at cities of similar or smaller size than Brampton that have multiple hospitals and saying "we are converting some of them to this way of the future".

/rant

 

[interchange42]

…and now comes an expansion, while more quickly, Brampton Civic is also getting 37 more beds:

News Release

Ontario Approves Major Hospital Expansion for Peel Memorial Centre
November 9, 2017

Province Opening 37 More Hospital Beds for Families in Brampton
Ontario has approved a major hospital expansion project at the Peel Memorial Centre to increase access to care and reduce wait times in Brampton.

Dr. Eric Hoskins Minister of Health and Long-Term Care, was joined by Vic Dhillon, MPP for Brampton West, and Harinder Malhi, MPP for Brampton-Springdale, at the Peel Memorial Centre for Integrated Health and Wellness today to announce the major expansion.

The next phase of redevelopment at Peel Memorial will add more inpatient services, including complex continuing care and rehabilitation for patients and their families.

The province is also making 37 additional beds available at the Brampton Civic Hospital this year, including six more beds announced last month. This investment is part of over 2,000 additional beds and spaces being made available across the province this year.

This support builds on recent health care investments in Brampton, including the new Peel Memorial Centre for Integrated Health and Wellness, which opened in April and offers services to reduce wait times at nearby emergency departments such as urgent care, same-day surgeries, programs for new mothers and mental health supports.

Investing in hospitals is part of Ontario's plan to create fairness and opportunity during this period of rapid economic change. The plan includes a higher minimum wage and better working conditions, free tuition for hundreds of thousands of students, easier access to affordable child care, and free prescription drugs for everyone under 25 through the biggest expansion of medicare in a generation.

QUICK FACTS​

• • Ontario invested $451 million in the new Peel Memorial Centre, which opened in April to complement the services at Brampton Civic Hospital and Etobicoke General Hospital. It is staffed by emergency-trained physicians and staff, and is equipped with high-tech diagnostic imaging and lab services.
  • Ontario is providing $140 million to make more hospital beds available across the province and enhance home care services. This investment includes $100 million for hospitals to address increased demands for care, and $40 million for post-hospital and preventative care at home.

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[Edward Skira]

 

[ShonTron]

The latest provincial budget had this item:

Expanding Capacity through Investments in Hospital Infrastructure​

To address the increasing demand for health care services, Ontario continues to make record investments in the expansion and renewal of hospitals that provide essential care to patients and their families. For example, Ontario is investing in new hospital and other expansion projects in the Region of Peel and surrounding areas through collaboration with Trillium Health Partners and William Osler Health System. These investments will support historic hospital expansion and construction projects, including a new inpatient wing at Peel Memorial in Brampton. They will also deliver on critical expansion in Mississauga and Etobicoke to accommodate the demand in these growing communities.

Only $1.5 million will go towards planning the new inpatient wing. There are those who believe that it will allow for a full-service, 24 hour emergency room, instead of the limited service, 18-hour/day urgent care centre. However, the plans for the second phase of this development was for a complex care/rehabilitation centre, not acute care beds. It would not mean things like on-site labs or ICU beds required for a full-service hospital.

 

[interchange42]

Here's the fordnation press release following the budget:

2021 Budget Investment to Create 250 New Beds at Peel Memorial​ BRAMPTON — The Ontario government is delivering a long-awaited new hospital for the people of Brampton. The 2021 Budget includes an additional $3 billion investment in health care infrastructure over 10 years, which will support the transformation of the Peel Memorial Centre for Integrated Health and Wellness ("Peel Memorial") in Brampton from a day facility into a new inpatient hospital with a 24/7 Emergency Department. The 2021 Budget, Ontario's Action Plan: Protecting People's Health and Our Economy, brings the government's total investment to protect people's health to $16.3 billion. Details were provided today by Premier Doug Ford, Christine Elliott, Deputy Premier and Minister of Health, and Prabmeet Sarkaria, Member of Provincial Parliament for Brampton South, and Amarjot Sandhu, Member of Provincial Parliament for Brampton West. "Thanks to years of under investment, Brampton has waited far too long for access to the health care services their growing city needs," said Premier Ford. "In the 2021 Budget, our government is finally delivering a new hospital and 24/7 Emergency Department for the great people of Brampton." Currently, Peel Memorial is an urgent care centre that provides a range of day procedures and outpatient services. To support the transformation of Peel Memorial into a new hospital, the province will fund the construction of over 250 net new beds at the site. Construction is anticipated to begin in 2023. The province is also providing up to $18 million in 2021-22 to expand the urgent care centre to 24/7 operations, paving the way for an eventual emergency department as Peel Memorial expands into an inpatient hospital. "Ontario's hospitals have been on the frontlines of the province's COVID-19 response, and our government is committed to ensuring they have the infrastructure and tools they need to continue delivering exceptional care to our communities," said Christine Elliott, Deputy Premier and Minister of Health. "By supporting the transformation of Peel Memorial, this investment will help improve access to care for patients in the region, while also expanding hospital capacity and helping to end hallway health care." The investments in Peel Memorial will allow the people of Brampton have access to 24/7 hospital services including urgent care, complex continuing care, enhanced mental health, and rehabilitation for patients and their families. Last year, William Osler received up to 87 hospital beds to help alleviate hospital capacity pressures and reduce wait times as part of the government's investment of $351 million for more than 2,250 new beds at 57 hospitals and alternate health facilities across the province. "With Ontario's Action Plan: Protecting People's Health and Our Economy, we are accelerating our long-standing work with a more than $30 billion plan to build, expand, and improve hospitals across the province over the next ten years," said Peter Bethlenfalvy, Minister of Finance and President of the Treasury Board. "No government has committed to invest more in Ontario hospitals. This includes a historic and overdue investment for the Peel Region to ensure people can access care when they need in their community." Healthy people are essential for a healthy economy. With vaccines being distributed, hope is on the horizon. Ontario's Action Plan: Protecting People's Health and Our Economy provides the resources necessary to finish the battle with COVID-19, building on the government's record investments to protect health and jobs during the global pandemic.

 

[ShonTron]

Another announcement today that once again promises funding for 24-hour staffing of the urgent care centre and for cancer services at Civic.

Civic is supposed to get funding for a full cancer centre (including radiation therapy and a complete outpatient clinic) and Peel Memorial funding for a new inpatient tower (and upgrading of the urgent care centre to a full emergency department), but this funding doesn’t cover that.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/new-hospital-brampton-ford-announcement-1.6406908

 

[ShonTron]

The sign of promise of a full new hospital - we'll see about that.

But it appeared that soil samples were being taken yesterday, when I took this photo.

 

[ShonTron]

There’s a pre-consultation application to Brampton’s planning office for a 12-storey tower at 20 Lynch Street. Renderings or site plans aren’t available yet, but some details can be found.

William Osler HC is proposing a 12-storey, 61 metre building with a total of 68654.98 sq m (731945.91 sq ft) of space. That’s the size of a mid-sized hospital, in addition to the existing clinical facilities. The urgent care centre is open 24/7 now, at least.

Accela Citizen Access

 

[Dan416]

It’s crazy that Brampton currently only has 1 hospital and Mississauga only has 2.

 

[ShonTron]

I found some more planning documents for the Phase II of Peel Memorial Hospital.

The 250 bed, 11-storey expansion will include a full emergency department, giving the site true hospital status. However, it will not have on-site acute care services such as MRI, ICU, birthing, cardiac care, and inpatient surgical facilities. Presumably, patients who require those will have to be transferred to the Civic site or elsewhere after being treated/stabilized at the ED.

The inpatient beds will be dedicated to chronic/continuing/complex care needs, which will free up acute care capacity at the main Civic site. There will some new outpatient clinics, as well as an inpatient substance withdrawal (detox) unit.

From the cover letter:

The PMP2 Redevelopment includes Complex Continuing Care and Rehabilitation (i.e., including Musculoskeletal,
Stroke, Medically Complex, Amputee Complex and Neurological), Mental Health Complex Geriatric Behavioural
Unit, Mental Health Post-Acute Concurrent Disorders Unit, Seniors Cognitive Rehabilitation, Outpatient
Rehabilitation Services, Seniors Health Ambulatory and Outreach Services, Environmental Services, Materials
Management, Food Services, Public Areas (including central registration, volunteers, occupational health and
safety, information services, security), proposed medically assisted withdrawal beds, proposed acute
transitional beds, proposed Shelled spaces. In addition, the project will provide a full Emergency Department,
complete with acute transitional care beds, diagnostics, and fracture clinic.

Architect is HoK.

Accela Citizen Access

Main floor, including lobby and outpatient clinic space:

Third floor - typical inpatient floor

 

[Northern Light]

I found some more planning documents for the Phase II of Peel Memorial Hospital.

The 250 bed, 11-storey expansion will include a full emergency department, giving the site true hospital status. However, it will not have on-site acute care services such as MRI, ICU, birthing, cardiac care, and inpatient surgical facilities. Presumably, patients who require those will have to be transferred to the Civic site or elsewhere after being treated/stabilized at the ED.

The inpatient beds will be dedicated to chronic/continuing/complex care needs, which will free up acute care capacity at the main Civic site. There will some new outpatient clinics, as well as an inpatient substance withdrawal (detox) unit.

From the cover letter:



Architect is HoK.

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I don't know the specifics of utilization and wait times for Osler...........but....

I can say that in general waits for many procedures including those that are surgical as well as diagnostic are quite high in the GTA writ large.

I very much question the failure to include CT and MRI services.

Brampton as a whole I don't think has a PET Scanner yet; so one should probably go to main campus first.

I would also add, CT Scanners are considered good form for an ER these days, in particular they can be assistive in Stroke diagnosis and head injuries.

To me this program looks a bit value engineered for fast growing City.

 

[ShonTron]

I don't know the specifics of utilization and wait times for Osler...........but....

I can say that in general waits for many procedures including those that a surgical as well as diagnostic are quite high in the GTA writ large.

I very much question the failure to include CT and MRI services.

Brampton as a whole I don't think has a PET Scanner yet; so one should probably go to main campus first.

I would also add, CT Scanners are considered good form for an ER these days, in particular they can be assistive in Stroke diagnosis and head injuries.

To me this program looks a bit value engineered for fast growing City.

There's clearly a need for a full-service, third hospital. The proposed site is on city-owned land on the southwest corner of Bovaird Drive and Heritage Road. This expansion is clearly a stop-gap. I would expect CT and X-Ray facilities in the ED; there's clearly a lot of room set aside for it.