Thank you, Mr. Chair. We’ve been clear that this isn’t about adding any new services to the Stanton footprint at this point in time. It is a replacement of all the in-patient beds through newly constructed single patient rooms. There is a new larger emergency department allowing for more appropriate flow, patient engagement,
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decontamination, isolation, those types of things. There is also a new larger medical laboratory with space for diagnostic imaging. W
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MRI in there, but we have asked that the ability to add a footprint for an MRI be incorporated into the site design and the plans so there’s room for the MRI.
We’re incorporating into the building enhanced medical technology to modernize some of the hospital operations. We’re looking at, in this facility, sort of trying to build upon where we started in the existing Stanton where space became a giant issue, things like a chemo suite that will be in the new hospital. So it’s not a new service, but it will be done in a far better way and the area will actually be truly designed for the purpose and the intent. The same is true of the dialysis. There will be an area designed for dialysis that was designed as a dialysis unit as opposed to a room that a wall was knocked down and a dialysis unit was tossed in there.
So it’s planning about flow, it’s planning about the services, and the units will have room for some level of expansion over the 30 years of the life of the building, or the life of our contract with BHP.