Quiz Responses
How did you fare in our quiz? Below are our explanations for the answers to the questions.
1. Under the plan for the mega hospital, Windsor Regional Hospital Metropolitan Campus, formerly known as Met hospital, will be completely demolished. Even the new Ronald McDonald house and the Cancer Care Centre, built in 2005, are slated to be demolished. This will allow Windsor Regional Hospital to deliver a "blank canvas" to the City of Windsor.
Source: www.wrh.on.ca/Site_Published/wrh_internet/Document.aspx?Body.Id=65559
2 Under the plan for the mega hospital, Windsor Regional Hospital Ouellette Campus, formerly known as Hotel Dieu-Grace hospital, will be demolished and replaced by facility that provides outpatient mental health, addictions and chronic disease management services.
Source: www.wrh.on.ca/Site_Published/wrh_internet/Document.aspx?Body.Id=65557
3. The proposed new Urgent Care Centre at the old Grace Site on Crawford at University is intended for non-life threatening conditions only and will be open 18 hours a day at peak. In presentations, the public heard it will be open 14 hours a day.
Source: www.wrh.on.ca/Site_Published/wrh_internet/Document.aspx?Body.Id=65555
4. Under the plan, there will be only two 24/7 Emergency Departments to serve Essex County. One will be at the proposed mega hospital, and there is also one at Leamington District Memorial Hospital.
How did you fare in our quiz? Below are our explanations for the answers to the questions.
1. Under the plan for the mega hospital, Windsor Regional Hospital Metropolitan Campus, formerly known as Met hospital, will be completely demolished. Even the new Ronald McDonald house and the Cancer Care Centre, built in 2005, are slated to be demolished. This will allow Windsor Regional Hospital to deliver a "blank canvas" to the City of Windsor.
Source: www.wrh.on.ca/Site_Published/wrh_internet/Document.aspx?Body.Id=65559
2 Under the plan for the mega hospital, Windsor Regional Hospital Ouellette Campus, formerly known as Hotel Dieu-Grace hospital, will be demolished and replaced by facility that provides outpatient mental health, addictions and chronic disease management services.
Source: www.wrh.on.ca/Site_Published/wrh_internet/Document.aspx?Body.Id=65557
3. The proposed new Urgent Care Centre at the old Grace Site on Crawford at University is intended for non-life threatening conditions only and will be open 18 hours a day at peak. In presentations, the public heard it will be open 14 hours a day.
Source: www.wrh.on.ca/Site_Published/wrh_internet/Document.aspx?Body.Id=65555
4. Under the plan, there will be only two 24/7 Emergency Departments to serve Essex County. One will be at the proposed mega hospital, and there is also one at Leamington District Memorial Hospital.
5. The estimated cost to the City of Windsor to provide public transit to the proposed County Road 42 hospital site is expected to cost $2 million for new buses, plus $2 million every year to operate the service. This has not yet been presented in detail to the public, but was mentioned by Administration during the April 25 Council meeting.
6. The shortest route by road to the proposed Mega hospital site on county road 42 for somebody living near Windsor City Hall is 12.9 km:
6. The shortest route by road to the proposed Mega hospital site on county road 42 for somebody living near Windsor City Hall is 12.9 km:
7. The average distance in Canada from city hall to the nearest hospital is 3.6 km:
8. Windsor is responsible for all the infrastructure (roads, hydro, water, sewage and transit) to the new mega hospital site. This is because the proposed site on County Road 42 lies within Windsor's boundaries.
An agreement was reached for Windsor to come up with $108M and for the County to raise $92M for a total of $200M. This represents 10% of the anticipated construction cost for the new hospital and satellite facilities, but does not include any of the infrastructure.
9. The estimated total cost of infrastructure, including road construction, to service the land surrounding the proposed mega-hospital site on county road 42 is in the area of $250 million, a figure that has been mentioned several times in the media. In this excerpt from the December 21, 2015, Council meeting, a slightly lower figure of $220 million is mentioned:
An agreement was reached for Windsor to come up with $108M and for the County to raise $92M for a total of $200M. This represents 10% of the anticipated construction cost for the new hospital and satellite facilities, but does not include any of the infrastructure.
9. The estimated total cost of infrastructure, including road construction, to service the land surrounding the proposed mega-hospital site on county road 42 is in the area of $250 million, a figure that has been mentioned several times in the media. In this excerpt from the December 21, 2015, Council meeting, a slightly lower figure of $220 million is mentioned:
Right at the end of the meeting, there was a short discussion about the infrastructure too:
10. The proposed mega hospital for Windsor Essex is not a done deal. Although a funding agreement has been reached for the local component of the construction costs, the proposal has not been approved by the Province of Ontario.