The Rideau Regional Centre (RRC) is not the solution to the problem of clogged emergency departments at area hospitals, Ontario Health and Long-Term Care Minister George Smitherman said Friday.
In an interview with The Recorder and Times, Smitherman said a proposal by two Opposition Progressive Conservative MPPs to use the facility to free up acute-care hospital beds is “just not a good fit” for the health-care system.
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I must be going crazy.
I thought the original purpose of the Rideau Regional was a hospital as well as a care facility. What better use than to keep using it as such.
The Queensway Carleton Hospital for one example has to put operations on the sideline because people are in need of long term care and need more than an retirement/old age home can provide and are taking up these beds and this is what is happening to a lot of our hospitals. The Rideau Regional is the perfect setting for this type of care.
Are our politians so ignorant that they do not know that we have an aging population and are in need of this type of care. Better to use the tax payers money for something as useful as this rather than another museum or entertainment venue i.e. a new arena for Smiths Falls that only a selected few will use.
I know the Rideau Regional is an aging building but I don't think a lot of people know that it has been VERY WELL kept up. After all, it is our money that has been spent to maintain and upgrade it. What is a little more to help out our well deserving older population that have contributed so much to Canada's development.
As I said, I must be crazy, this is the perfect use for this facility.
I will be writing my MPP to wish him well in his endevour to have his idea implemented.
Great comment Cat lover !
Yep, you're loco ... for thinking the goberment would do something so logical !
I was wondering how a long-term care center qualified as a "new use" of the buildings as well ... it seems to me also that this is exactly the use it served ... some modifications perhaps, like moving away from a ward style facility to a private or semi-private setting. I'm no construction expert but that seems as easy as a few more walls, additional plumbing, updated electrical. Besides, they are the government ... would it not be easy to just pass a bill exempting that facility from some building code provisions ? I guess the big stickler is aspestos insulation and lead-based paint. How in the world these products didn't post a hazard to residents of RRC, but all of a sudden would to a different client is beyond me.
I agree the facility has been exceptionally maintained ... they are still painting the place. to this day. I heard this weekend (from someone who is in a position to know)that some of the long-closed wards have been "converted" to a more private apartment-like setting. Maybe the idea isn't as dead as I fear ? I've also heard that it's in nobodies interest to announce anything until the place is completely closed and all staff are gone in order to circument the union.
When you are writing the letter you should copy Bob Runciman, George Smitherman and Dolt.
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