LETTER: MORE ALC BEDS SPREAD ACROSS MUSKOKA WOULD ALLOW HOSPITALS TO REMAIN AS IS AND COST LESS THAN $1 BILLION

LETTER TO EDITOR:

Re: North-south hospital divide

Here is what I see.

  1. Muskoka can’t afford more than a BILLION DOLLARS for new hospitals.
  2. The healthcare model is changing to a DISPERSED MODEL.
  3. Muskoka wants TWO EQUAL HOSPITALS in Bracebridge and Huntsville.
  4. Current hospitals are filled with NON-CRITICAL ALC PATIENTS.
  5. Solution is THREE TRANSITIONAL-CARE facilities — one each for Gravenhurst, Bracebridge, and Huntsville — to take non-critical care patients.
  6. KEEP the two hospitals we have, make them MORE EFFICIENT by having transitional care available to empty critical care beds.

We would have a plan that would keep us all happy and cost us a lot less than a billion dollars.

Let us take this opportunity to show LEADERSHIP to both Ontario and the rest of Canada in developing a new and better DISPERSED MODEL of health care.

Alan Clark

Bracebridge

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Adding three new ALC (alternative level of care) bed facilities – one each in Gravenhurst, Bracebridge and Huntsville – would free up space for critical care patients here at HDMH and at SMMH while allowing the existing hospitals to remain the size they are, writes Alan Clark, of Bracebrige, in a letter to the editor.