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Healthcare Reasons for No Hospital Downtown
First #NoHospitalDowntown sought to understand what seemed a urban renewal scheme, then upon analysis, we've found their concept is not even a healthcare solution.
1) Proposed location is 1,400 feet from the CSX Mainline Railroad (PDF) tracks. See our Derailment Risk research.
Risk Assessment for Railroads, @MVHealthSystem Hospital too? Oil-by-rail industry is radically underinsured for risks of shipping volatile crude. Financial risk falls instead on taxpayers... nearly incalculable costs of an oil explosion in an urban area... https://t.co/r4W4URR8Ew pic.twitter.com/mJF4XwYzd7
— #NoHospitalDowntown (@NoHospitalDwtn) September 14, 2018
2) This doctor's letter, Dr. Christopher Max, April 6, 2016 (PDF) explains his thoughts on downtown decision.
3) Not a healing environment; traffic, noise, dirtier air, and far removed from nature.
Listing FACTS of proposed @MVHealthSystem hospital concept. See study "Landscape Preference Evaluation for Hospital Environmental Design" https://t.co/fzGTaYqM0r (PDF). Downtown @CityofUtica NOT a healing environment. pic.twitter.com/WUWwAzberG
— #NoHospitalDowntown (@NoHospitalDwtn) September 14, 2018
4) Would waste healthcare dollars on bulldozers, wrecking balls, demolition, environmental cleanup, etc. Proposed Downtown Hospital Budget
5) Large hospitals are increasing outdated solutions. Studies report greater success of investing in outpatient clinics, same-day surgery centers, free-standing emergency rooms and microhospitals, which offer as few as eight beds for overnight stays.
6) Three current hospital campus are not "too old", much of each campus is very new and hosts modern-day equipment
7) Placing an acute care hospital into the city center, so the ER department can be accessed by poor...
8) Utica is already home to Oneida County's existing medical district... OCMD
9) Questionable ground-level placement of Medevac helicopter pad
10) Area doctors and nurses were never asked
11) A single hospital for a city of 60,000 people?
Corning much smaller city needs at least 30 acres https://t.co/3ZfWvjCiAA In bigger Utica, future "Nano Meca", less? https://t.co/PXs3OCJMhk pic.twitter.com/ddbDBIDX72
— #NoHospitalDowntown (@NoHospitalDwtn) April 24, 2017
13) Long narrow design, equals less than optimal hospital layout...
14) Hospital location is not central to Oneida County's Population Center
15) The downtown site would remove the hospital from neighboring Utica College, which has growing health and medical programs, and away from a recently expanded and modern nursing home.
16) Proposed budget does not anticipate all costs; chief among this is a new IT System and budget pressures have already stated a lower level building code would be sought.
17) Evidence suggests hospitals need to expand to meet growing healthcare needs, a downtown site offers little room for future expansion.
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