Comments on: WTS – What the Surrey #12 – Surrey Memorial Hospital Facilities Expansion

By: Tulips for Tomorrow 2008 » Vancouver Blog Miss 604 by Rebecca Bollwitt

Tulips for Tomorrow 2008 » Vancouver Blog Miss 604 by Rebecca Bollwitt — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 15:52:38 +0000

[...] the campaign that also allows you to place a donation online. SMH continues to be important to me (read my history of the hospital) since not only was I born there, my niece and nephews were as well. Digg it Add to del.icio.us [...]

By: Social Media for Change: Tulips for Tomorrow Update » Miss604’s Vancouver Blog by Vancouver Blogger Rebecca Bollwitt

Wed, 26 Mar 2008 17:12:03 +0000

[...] October I wrote a post about the Surrey Memorial Hospital expansion, and followed up by contacting the Fraser Health Authority about a campaign I had read about. As a [...]

By: Miss604’s Canuck Life :: A Vancouver Blog » Blog Archive » Blog Find: Langley Politics Dotcom

Thu, 18 Oct 2007 15:41:00 +0000

[...] website popped onto my radar a short while ago when they linked my story about the Surrey Memorial Hospital, even though they’ve been around for the last four years. Langley’s longest-running and [...]

By: Miss604’s Canuck Life :: A Vancouver Blog » Blog Archive » Tulips for Tomorrow

Thu, 04 Oct 2007 18:34:16 +0000

[...] this week I wrote about the growing need for better healthcare facilities in the Fraser Valley and the Surrey Memorial [...]

By: Adonica Monroe

Adonica Monroe — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 18:19:57 +0000

I think this tulips idea sounds great! How can we help support!! Lets get something going!!

By: zona

zona — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 15:28:15 +0000

gee. you and my grandaughter have something in common!

By: Duane Storey

Duane Storey — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 22:03:04 +0000

The solution isn’t a two-tiered system IMO — that only helps the people with awesome medical coverage or lots of money. I don’t think it really has a place in a socialized country. The solution is to fix what’s broken in our current medical system, either by allocating more money or by raising taxes primarily to go to the medical system. I’d be more than happy to accept another 1% on the GST or income tax if it meant better health care with reduced wait times. I was in the hospital last week, and there was basically a bed-raffle in the morning to see who would have a bed, and who would sleep in the hall or stay in the ER. Not a very good state for the system to be in.

Once you go two-tiered, you’re really setting yourself up for the problems that exist in the states.

By: PatZ

PatZ — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 21:56:38 +0000

“More beds, more care, more attention, less forest and meadow land.”

must…keep…economics theories…out of…head… damn you Utility Theory!

my sister works at the U of A hospital in edmonton and she brings home stories about bed shortages.

she also wakes me up in the morning with text messages saying “I CPR’d the shit out of someone last night!”

do you know if there’s any debate surrounding this about people in favour of a two tiered system? this was the argument at home, either build a new publicly funded hospital next to edmonton that used up a good chunk of land, or let some patients pay for treatment to avoid wait times at the 4+ hospitals in the city.

By: Duane

Duane — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 21:22:40 +0000

I’ve always thought that it would be fair that if you destroy agricultural land while building something new, that you should be forced to put a bunch of vegetation on the roof or something similar. In terms of a hospital, I think it would be rather cool to go up to the roof and have a mini forest.