Calvary Private Hospital in new building from 2012

So the story with Calvary must be that LCM won’t invest in Calvary because they don’t own it in the long run. The ALP won’t invest in it because LCM lease it.

So LCM take the money from the ACT government and use it to build a new private hospital, saying no doubt that this miantains a public Catholic presence in the ACT?

I know LCM is non-government, but that’s not really the point.

Why can’t the ALP government renegotiate the Calvary lease with LCM to have some ROI for anything they spend on upgrades/maintenance.

The whole deal still sounds very silly and paper-driven (get the number in the right place on the balance sheet), and all because Kate (Carnell not Gallagher) ‘lost’ a public hosiptal when she imploded RCH.

So long as LCM are putting their money into it, I reckon it’s up to them whether or not they think they can make a go of it.

Do we really need another private hospital? The one behind Woden public hospital has been half empty when we’ve had to go visit patients there.

Really, the ACT government should rethink this whole thing.

jasmine said :

Close to building parking really has to be an option for those who are ill or caring/transporting sick patients needing treatment.

…Not to mention those who work every day in said building. 😉

Actually had the same thought as Grump yesterday afternoon as I passed Calvary on the GDE, though my first thought wasn’t that it was going to land on the car park.

From the GDE, what you see the most of around the current Calvary site is trees.

Grump makes a good point. Canberra planning is great at coming up with new buildings but never considers parking arrangements which can adversely affect people needing to go to hospital with sick loved ones on a regular basis. We went through this with the hospital not just for hospital visits, but scans and treatment. It really made life a bit more difficult in trying times.

Close to building parking really has to be an option for those who are ill or caring/transporting sick patients needing treatment.

and where will this building go? It’s hard enough now finding parking when visiting patients or getting scans.

“Build it, and they will come.”

It will be interesting to see where the LCM will find the staff to run these facilities. Calvary public currently relies on the secondment of a significant amount of ACT Health employees in order to deliver services. In order to get these ideas off the ground, they’ll need to either cooperate with ACT Health to procure a similar deal, or go it alone and recruit independently (which may prove to be an over-ambitious and optimistic goal).