Thank you, Mr. Chair. Infrastructure projects, as you can imagine, take a long time to plan from beginning to the day that we open the doors. One of the key components of the planning study in a long-term care facility is, indeed, the needs assessment. The first piece that we have to clarify about the facility is how many beds are we going to build. So the projections are part and parcel of the planning study. Once we decide, determine, how many beds we need, we go to the operational plan, the functional program. Basically, we say how big the facility is, where is it, where can we locate it to, how it will -- integrate it with all the services and the programs that are in the community. The bed projections are exactly that. They are projections. But they are for multiple years - 10 years, 20 years out. The whole intention of doing the planning study and the whole intent is to have the needs assessment as a part of that, have it incorporated, and part of the justification for the size and location and how the facility will be configured. Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Mr. Perry Heath on Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
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Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
October 29th, 2024
Perry Heath
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