www.thesuburban.com<\/a><\/p>\n\u201cIt\u2019s true that there will be fewer beds at the [new superhospital\u2019s] Glen site,\u201d acknowledged McGill University Hospital Centre\u2019s public affairs and strategic planning director Richard Fahey. \u201cThe aging population is a major concern for health authorities in Quebec, Canada and throughout the world.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe decision was made by the government, when it created the project, to make funding available for fewer beds,\u201d he reminded. \u201cThat has clinical planning implications.\u201d<\/p>\n
In plain English, it means that it will house fewer beds to treat Montreal\u2019s English-speakers, whose demographics, the 2011 census revealed, are aging more rapidly the overall population.<\/p>\n
The new superhospital has adopted an array of coping strategies to face the challenge of delivering more health care with fewer resources.
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\nTreatment treadmill<\/b><\/p>\n\n
\n\u201cThere\u2019s no silver bullet,\u201d Fahey admitted. \u201cIf I have more patients with the same infrastructure, I need to treat them more rapidly in order to ensure that they get the level of care that they deserve. That means using state-of-the-art technology to make us more efficient and very precise in the provision of health care services.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMedicine has evolved. All the rooms [in the new superhospital] will be single beds,\u201d he explained. \u201cThat means less infection and shorter stays. New surgical procedures are less invasive and more efficient.\u201d <\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re also discussing with various regional health care authorities on the western tip of Montreal\u2014Verdun, Cavendish, Dorval, LaSalle and Lachine\u2014about where to care for the patient, in order to treat primary and secondary care patients there as much as possible,\u201d he said. \u201cWe\u2019re also in [similar] discussions with the regions on the periphery of Montreal.\u201d<\/p>\n
In the immediate vicinity of the superhospital, the plan to farm out primary and secondary care to adjacent medical clinics has foundered, as neighbours have expressed a not-in-my-back-yard opposition to the development.<\/p>\n
Support clinics still needed<\/b><\/p>\n
\u201cMore and more, health authorities are creating public clinics with extended hours. That will transform health services,\u201d Fahey reported. \u201cWe currently have 31 offices, but Westmount wants to restrict the number to 35. We will see other clinics appear in Notre Dame de Gr\u00e2ce, as well. The Queen Elizabeth Hospital is also a facility. All of these will support primary and secondary care in the region.\u201d <\/p>\n
\u201cThat doesn\u2019t mean that primary and secondary care won\u2019t be provided [at the superhospital],\u201d he added. \u201cWe\u2019re a teaching hospital, so we have to teach the residents by exposing them to primary, secondary and tertiary patients.\u201d
Fahey told The Suburban<\/i> that an intergovernmental committee is looking at what to do with existing hospital facilities. <\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019re determining how to dispose of the buildings that will be vacated,\u201d he said. \u201cThey\u2019re worth about $200 million.\u201d <\/p><\/div>\n
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