When the team at Oakville Trafalgar Memorial Hospital selected a site for a new hospital, they knew they were looking for a forever home. So they chose a large empty site to serve the community for generations to come.
The following video was produced in 2014, while the site was still under construction.
The new Oakville Trafalgar Memorial Hospital opened in the fall of 2015.
FROM THE ARCHIVE: NEW OAKVILLE HOSPITAL: BUILT WITH AND FOR THE COMMUNITY
Windsor Regional Hospital 
That’s cute, using forever home to appeal to pet lovers at a time when people are posting images of dogs trying to find forever homes.
When you built the tower at MET Campus in 1974, that was a forever home.
We can’t afford the closure of two hospitals in favour of one that requires so much more spending but doesn’t guarantee better wait times and outcomes, and no more rooms.
I find it absolutely unacceptable that the current Hospital Steering committee is unwilling to take a closer look at fiscal responsibilities and outcomes. Measure twice, cut once!
Zoning must be denied to keep this mistake from happening.
Spend money improving outcomes now!
I’m in my forever home untill they take me out in a body bag. I don’t want my access to care diminished even further and placed farther away.
I suggest a new comprehensive and transparent consultation that looks to improve services. If that discussion leads to building new infrastructure, the purpose and scope will have been better defined like Petrolia’s process did.
Kind Regards,
Marty Bevan
The tower at the Met Campus was built to accommodate the needs of the community nearly 5 decades ago. It no longer meets the needs of today’s patients or staff and does not meet current standards for patient care and infection control. This video offers a closer look at the current infrastructure: https://youtu.be/1rG3j_fJR2E
Today, whenever possible, hospitals are built on properties that will serve their communities for generations to come. Unlike the current sites where hospitals are landlocked, they will be able to accommodate future growth – including the construction of a new hospital when necessary – right onsite.
The planned move to a single-site acute care hospital is based on recommendations of a Task Force Report prepared for the Ontario Minster of Finance and Mister of Health and Long-Term Care in 2012. The report, which was prepared after extensive consultation with area residents and the medical community in Windsor-Essex, found a new single-site acute care hospital would improve the delivery of acute care services in the region and provide value for money. Here is the link to that report: http://www.wrh.on.ca/Site_Published/AcuteCare/Document.aspx?Body.Id=55587&LeftNav.QueryId.Categories=774