wow hospital parking rates

[lk_wicked]

parking at the hospital costs $5.00 now. holy cow. and it takes my $5.00 and then the gate didn't even lift. a nurse behind me, used her card to let me out.


http://www.sah.on.ca/visitors.php?pageid=54

[GRUMPY]

a few weeks back ,if you are going to be visiting anyone there who will be in for awhile it would pay to stop at the admitting office and buy a swipe card for the gat . I heard that they are around $45 and good for a month,when I used them they were only $33 but it "only" cost $3 to park then.

[lk_wicked]

I have bought those before, but the hospital required you use a credit card for the card, and then the card will automatically be billed to your credit card until you go in, and return the card and cancel the automatic w/d on your credit card.

I don't know if they still require that, it might have changed. But once again, people who can't afford to park there, and don't have credit cards, are really in a bind.

[1337]

I had to get stitches for my leg, and when I went to the hospital I only carried a toonie on me. I drove up tot he gates, and it was $3, so I had to park on Biggings, and hobble inside LOL.

When my wife was in the hospital on bed rest before having our son, I was in and out of that hospital a good 2 times a day, as well as when he was on NICU, I was in there 4-5 times a day, at $3 a shot!..... It wasn't untill we checked out that they said we could've got hte card.

Now it's $5?

[chase_me]

it sucks to have to pay especially at those prices, i am glad i have my parking pass

[Giggle Squirt]

ya in 03 when my first son was born he was in the nicu, and it wasn't till 2 days into his stay that the nurse told us we could of bought tokens or something to get in and out at a reduced rate.

[Sunshine19]

We bought the card when I was in the hospital having the baby. well worth it. I was in there for a week just hanging out waiting and I walked around and saw the posting that you can get a parking pass. It's on the wall in front of the nurses station.

[MaO3]

$5.00 is cheap! Sunnybrook Hospital in Toronto is $24.00 a day!

[dancingqueen]

This isn't Toronto.

[Jackie B]

Park at the doctor's building, I always have. $2.00. I had to go there 3 times in 3 days last week. I like $6 a lot better than $15. Nuts!

[lk_wicked]

you can be ticketed if you park at the doctor's building but don't have an appointment there. If the weather co-operates I park on one of the side streets that have allowable parking areas.

[lk_wicked]

Just a question, but I have heard a lot of people saying how the new hospital is going to have less beds, no full time nursing positions, more private rooms, etc..... If that is true, why spend a fortune and end up with less than what we already have? Does anyone know what is going to happen to the old hospitals, after the new ones open. I really haven't kept up with the news, so if there is a link or people that know about it, could please enlighten me? I wonder if the food services will improve.

[b&aMom]

Oh, you can bet your butt that someone who's name we are all familiar with already has condo plans for it, or something. You watch, everyone will know the name. Big bucks, I'm sure, will be made. Whether that translates to the hospital or not is another story.

[verotik66]

Just a question, but I have heard a lot of people saying how the new hospital is going to have less beds, no full time nursing positions, more private rooms, etc..... If that is true, why spend a fortune and end up with less than what we already have? Does anyone know what is going to happen to the old hospitals, after the new ones open. I really haven't kept up with the news, so if there is a link or people that know about it, could please enlighten me? I wonder if the food services will improve.

ssshhh! you are not supposed to mention that the new hospital has a smaller capacity than our present hospital and that there will be less staff working at the new hospital. but that is ok, because the private sector partner will makes lots of money and that is good for ontario.

[1337]

The hospital land is to go back to the Plummer family if/when it stops being a hospital.

[PwRjinjin]

gotta pay of the new building somehow!

[$Spendbender$]

The hospital land is to go back to the Plummer family if/when it stops being a hospital.

Says who?

Verotik66 - check this out:

New Hospital

The new SAH will be 20% larger than the combined Plummer and General sites with the same 289-bed complement. Some of the other features include:

• Emergency department double the size of current facility
• 31% increase in clinical space
• Three beautiful courtyards for patients and visitors
• Temperature controlled environment with modern heating and cooling systems
• Infant abduction security system and other enhanced patient monitoring systems
• Automated medication dispensing systems
• Enhanced, state-of-the-art nurse call system
• Dedicated hand wash sinks in all patient rooms, clinical areas and outpatient areas such as dialysis and medical daycare
• Negative pressure rooms throughout hospital for better infectious disease management
• Dedicated clean and dirty service elevators connecting SPD (Sterile Processing & Distribution) to ORs
• Ambient experience MRI
• Large bore 16-slice CT scan (one of two CTs)
• Articulated arms in operating room - no cords on the floor
• Wireless networks and infrastructure
• Patient bedside terminals in all patient rooms
• First large community hospital in Ontario to offer 50% private rooms
• Radiation therapy services for some forms of cancer, reducing the need for many patients to travel to other centres for treatment

I unno..seems like my tax dollars were well spent.

[chase_me]

you can be ticketed if you park at the doctor's building but don't have an appointment there. If the weather co-operates I park on one of the side streets that have allowable parking areas.

only ticketed if the cops come around and see you there and bother with you

[GRUMPY]

or the guy at the gate phones them.

[magic mushroom]

down south it's $7 and $9's, including the doctor's office buildings. crazy
when the new hospital is open i bet it will go up again.