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MUHC : Hôpital Général de Montréal (2012)


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  • 1 mois plus tard...
he expansion of the Montreal General Hospital was met with considerable opposition at a consultation meeting held Monday night.

 

The hospital's location on the southwestern slope of Mount Royal makes any expansion a contentious issue of Les Amis de la Montagne, a group which has fought in the past to make sure new construction does not compromise the integrity and borders of Montreal's landmark park space.

 

"We don't understand the justification for the expansion outside the existing footprint of the hospital," said Gabrielle Korn, communications director for Les Amis de la Montagne.

 

The fear is the precedent permitting such an expansion would create.

 

"What we fear is that this will never stop," said Dinu Bumbaru of Heritage Montreal.

 

The Montreal General Hospital's expansion plan has actually been downsized since 2008. It is three wings lighter, two of which were slated to house the Montreal Neurological Institute. It has since been decided the institute will not move to the site. The project would give the hospital a new emergency room, and all patient rooms would be converted into single units.

 

But there is opposition to including a building at 1750 Cedar, immediately to the west of the existing hospital site, into the expansion plan. The building would be used to house a medical centre of the Montreal General and administrative offices for the McGill University Hospital Centre.

 

"This is another bad precedent," said neighbouring resident Judith Kavanagh."It just lets institutions get bigger and bigger on the mountain."

 

The MUHC insists the additional building is required to bring the Montreal General Hospital up to modern-day standards.

 

"We're bringing a project that also brings a lot of benefits," said Pierre Major, the MUHC's associate director. "I didn't talk about all of the green roofs, the green space that we're adding to the site, the link that will give a better connectivity to the mountain."

 

Residents say it could be a slippery slope, and they feel threatened

 

"What happens if you need more space?" Kavanagh asked. "Are you going to expropriate the rest of the residents?"

 

The building at 1750 Cedar adds a little over 4,000 square metres to the land area of the expansion project proposed in 2008, seeing as the elements that have been dropped are by and large vertical ones. The total coverage of the lot would increase just 4 per cent, from 38 per cent in 2008 to 42 per cent with the additional building.

 

The MUHC says that all existing views of the mountain will be preserved, that traffic in the area would see less of an increase under the current plan as the one approved in 2008 and that access to the mountain would be improved.

 

Proposal

 

(Courtesy of CTV Montreal)

 

The hospital should keep a list of the people and their families that oppose the expansion and refuse them care if they need it.

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(Courtesy of CTV Montreal)

 

The hospital should keep a list of the people and their families that oppose the expansion and refuse them care if they need it.

 

loll

 

Sincèrement, le nouveau projet est vraiment bien, il n'y a pas de raison de s'y opposer. Et l'édifice sur Cedar est neuf, ils n'ont pas exproprié qui que ce soit pour s'installer là.

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  • 2 mois plus tard...

CUSM

L'agrandissement ne sera pas vers la montagne

Agence QMI

Sarah Bélisle

13/09/2011 18h00

 

MONTRÉAL – L’agrandissement de l’Hôpital général ne devrait pas se faire vers la montagne et la rue Cedar, a conclu mardi l’Office de consultation publique de Montréal (OCPM) qui s’est penché sur le projet proposé par le Centre universitaire de santé McGill (CUSM).

 

«Ça augmenterait le poids de l’hôpital général vers la montagne, ce qui est contraire aux orientations de la ville et de sa politique de mise en valeur de la montagne», a expliqué Luc Doray, secrétaire général de l’OCPM qui a rendu publiques ses recommandations, mardi.

 

«Quand une institution occupe du terrain sur le flanc de la montagne, elle doit démontrer qu’il n’y a aucune autre option possible pour elle, a-t-il ajouté. Il y a toutes sortes d’hypothèses possibles, dont celle de procéder à un agrandissement du côté de l’Avenue des Pins».

 

«Nous sommes surpris, a indiqué Caroline Faneuf des affaires publiques du CUSM. Ça contredit les cinq avis favorables que nous avons reçus de la part d’organismes consultatifs indépendants».

 

Une centaine de citoyens et de groupes avaient pris part aux consultations. Près de 30 mémoires y avaient également été déposées.

 

«Les amis de la montagne appuient fortement la recommandation de l’OCPM d’inciter le CUSM et la Ville de Montréal à poursuivre leurs efforts dans la recherche de solutions plus respectueuses du milieu d’insertion», a fait savoir la directrice générale de l’organisme, Sylvie Guilbault, par voie de communiqué.

 

L’OCPM déposera son rapport et ses recommandations au Conseil municipal lors de la séance du 26 septembre.

 

Son avis sera examiné par les élus qui devront dire si le projet d’agrandissement de l’hôpital sera accepté tel quel ou s’ils renverront le CUSM à ses planches à dessin.

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This isn't about the mountain. It is about some idiotic agreement the MUHC signed years ago with the city that expressly forbids them to build in certain areas on the mountain. Unfortunately, in this case I feel that since they made their bed, they need to lie in it now.

 

It sort of serves them right for not thinking about future expansion before agreeing to some tree-hugger loving agreement with the city.

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  • 10 mois plus tard...

CTV Montreal has learned that the McGill University Health Centre has admitted defeat and has shelved plans to expand the Montreal General Hospital, blaming Quebec’s health minister for a lack of support.

 

Last September, the MUHC received a stern rebuke from Montreal’s public consultation office for going ahead with the project without the permits required to transform 1750 Cedar St. into an outpatient clinic for the adjacent hospital.

 

In the months since, the MUHC had lobbied the municipal and provincial governments to allow it to go forward with its plan to connect the half-built condo tower to the hospital.

 

The lobbying was complicated by the location of the project, as the hospital was seeking to rezone a lot adjacent to Mount Royal from a residential area to institutional space. Citizen’s groups like Heritage Montreal had opposed the rezoning, calling it an attack on the city’s green space.

 

In a document made available to CTV Montreal, interim director general of the MUHC Normand Rinfret made it clear he has backtracked and that the hospital will not expand beyond its current physical limits.

 

“We must also acknowledge that we failed to secure the support of our neighbours, our elected representatives and other Montrealers for our plans,” wrote Rinfret. “There are strong arguments from a public policy and a healthcare perspective to incorporate 1750 Cedar […] into the MGH.”

 

While the majority of the MUHC’s operations are being transferred to the superhospital being built in the Glen Yard at the edge of Notre-Dame-des-Grace, the General Hospital will remain as the group’s flagship hospital in downtown Montreal.

 

The site at 1750 Cedar St. was a large part of the MUHC’s plan to invest in the hospital and upgrade its offerings to the local community.

 

With an expected price tag of $30 million, the building’s acquisition was also controversial, having been purchased from businessman Vincent Chiara by one of the MUHC’s not-for profit affiliates, Syscor.

 

Chiara had purchased the property for $3.6 million in 2007, with plans to build a 64-unit condo complex. MUHC officials have steadfastly refused to reveal how much Chiara was paid for the site.

 

Without 1750 Cedar St., the MUHC will investigate alternative plans to expand the hospital. The hospital will now put the land and concrete shell at 1750 Cedar St. on the market. The property will remain zoned as a residential area.

 

Read more: http://montreal.ctvnews.ca/muhc-admits-defeat-abandons-plan-to-expand-montreal-general-1.892799#ixzz21fj15vKm

 

:sarcastic:

 

All I can say is, if the locals dislike the hospital expanding. They should go to another hospital if something happens.

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