f wrote:
thanks Colin, my question would be this, by expanding the hospital, are we really able to address the problems you mentioned with an expansion, emergency rooms are always full of people with colds, ad a $5 user fee as we suggested some time ago, people bend a finger and they tie up precious resources. Delivery is argueable at best as many couples, edit- females go to credit valley or where their doctor is. albeit emergencies arise and i dont think any woman will be expedited because the hospital was expanded. is there any data to support what your saying? has any woman had complications and was re routed to another hospital to give birth? its easy to say lets build an expansion that really, many folk i talk to dont deem as required. i dont buy the " no tax " answer, any politician that would suggest that worries me. with all due respect you guys have priorities wrong. milton tranist is another one, milton is a commuter town, expanding milton transit is a bigger waste of money than the hopital. i dont recall the last time i seen a bus with more than 3 people. id be more convinced if there was data to support ALL of what is being said before my tax dollars go anywhere,
I agree with you "f".
And all the GLOWING recommendations from mothers/fathers due to the birthing process at Milton Hospital is IRRELEVANT. The birth of a child is a positive, happy experience. In my opinion, my wife could have given birth under horrible conditions.
But the minute the baby arrives, all is forgotten.
You missed my point entirely. F said women give birth where their doctors are but it doesn't work like that. You give birth where the OB you are referred to has privileges and your particular medical requirements (certain specialized conditions require you to be treated as specific places). Most women if possible like to give birth as close to home as possible. How many women who would like to give birth in town but can't because the facility can't handle them and end up out of town for anything but the most basic delivery? And the facility currently is BEYOND CAPACITY for level 1 easy deliveries and babies. As Colin said, the expansion if approved tomorrow would still be ~5 years before being useable by the community. Our population in 5 years is projected to be over ~130,000. The longer the approval takes, the longer that date becomes and the population pressures increase that much more. And the hospitals in the adjacent areas like Credit Valley and Oakville are not expanding to accomodate Milton's population increase so finding care will just become increasingly difficult. Patients will increasingly have their referral to local doctors refused and be forced to go elsewhere further from home.
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