Montfort Hospital – How important is it?
There is a very high degree of likelihood that the MRI machines at the Montfort Hospital would be seriously impacted by the proximity of the proposed Kettle Island trucking route, which would pass within just a few metres of the hospital walls.
From an article on the subject:
Additionally, many MRIs are highly sensitive to vibration. Disruptive or crippling vibrations can be transmitted through the ground from cars, trucks and trains, sometimes from distances over 1,000 feet away. Similarly, vibrations from pumps, fans or motors that are commonly used throughout buildings can be transmitted across a building’s structural frame. Regardless of the origin, vibrations can impair an MRI’s image quality, particularly for many of the latest magnet systems, including 3.0 Tesla models and new high-field open MRIs. At the extreme end, harmonic or high-amplitude vibrations can cause quenches, running the risk of permanently crippling a $1 million magnet.
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The good news is that the consultants have recognized this and have created a sub-factor specific to the MRI impacts at Montfort. The bad news is that this factor counts for only 0.09% (less than 1/1000) of the total score, ranking it tied for 84th place of the 91 factors considered.
The rest of the bad news is that there are no other factors that directly consider the negative impacts on the hospital, such as traffic congestion hindering ambulance access, costs of modifying access routes to the hospital, or disruption to patients and their healing process resulting from traffic noise and poor air quality.
Given the state of our current health care system and the importance of Montfort Hospital to the community, this doesn’t seem quite right.
What can you do about this? Post your comments and feedback on this website for others to see. Attend the Final Public Consultation to express your concerns and spread the word to encourage others to attend. Contact your local federal, provincial and city representatives who have been elected to act in your best interests.
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September 20th, 2008 at 6:46 am
I think the ambulance access to the Montfort Hospital is a critical issue. A back entrance off Aviation Parkway was built because ambulances had difficulty making the turn off Montreal Road. Why? Too much traffic congestion of course. So what will happen when the Aviation Parkway is widened to four lanes and looks like King Edward Avenue at rush hour?
September 20th, 2008 at 11:16 am
September 20th, 2008
I doubt that an extensive study has been made of the truckin industry including intervews, both in canada and the US. The rising fuel cost now rivals driver costs and truckers are now forced to take the shortest distance between A and B. The bridge may become the great “white elephant” with conseqences for any political supporters.
Great website – Thanks
September 23rd, 2008 at 8:36 pm
Hypothesis: if there was only one anglophone hospital in Quebec and if it were located right beside the access road to the brige, would Quebec residents accept the bridge at that location? Asking the question is answering it. So, why would the francophone community on the Ontario side accept to have such a heavy traffic road right beside their only francophone hospital in Ontario?