健康 · シビック・キャンパスの資金調達
ギルガン氏の5,000万カナダドル寄付、オタワの病院計画を前進させるも費用問題は未解決
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英語の原文から翻訳されています。
緊急手術や集中治療、重傷後の治療を必要とする患者にとって、オタワの新しいシビック・キャンパスが約束するのは、最も困難な時間を過ごす患者を中心に設計された病院だ。計画中の集中治療棟には、そうした医療サービスと専門チームが一か所に集約される。ピーター・ギルガン財団による5,000万カナダドルの拠出は、その実現を後押しするが、患者にとっては、いつ開院するのかがまだ分からない。4
病院は、この拠出をたたえ、計画中のピーター・ギルガン集中治療棟と命名する予定だ。同棟には外傷センター、救急医療サービス、集中治療室が設けられ、医師、看護師、呼吸療法士、薬剤師、その他の医療従事者、ソーシャルワーカー、スピリチュアルケアの提供者が、重篤な患者や負傷者の治療にあたる予定だ。命名によって棟の建設費が確定するわけでも、この寄付だけで費用が賄われるわけでもない。4
住宅建設会社マッタミー・ホームズの創業者であるギルガン氏は、自身の財団がしばらく前から病院と水面下で協議しており、家族が最終決定をしたのはごく最近だと述べた。また、この拠出は他の人々にも参加を呼びかけるものだと語った。5
「小切手を書く以上のものです。本当に、他の人々を奮い立たせることにもつながります。」
キャンペーンの節目であり、残高ではない
財団のティム・クルーク最高経営責任者は、5万人を超える個人や家族が寄付し、多くの家族、個人、企業が過去最大の慈善寄付を行ったと述べた。ギルガン氏の拠出は、こうした共同の取り組みにおける大きな貢献だ。しかし、キャンペーンの残りの目標額は、病院全体の建設資金としてなお必要な金額ではない。6
また、財団は建設費をめぐる新たな疑問に対応して目標額を引き上げるわけではない。11月3日にCBCから質問を受けた広報担当者は、「新病院と研究を支援する目標額は変更しない」と述べた。これにより資金調達のゴールは明確なままだが、はるかに大きな公的資金の問題は解決していない。5
祝賀発表の陰にある予算の空白
10月下旬の委員会での質疑で、デービッド・ピッチーニ・インフラ担当相は、州の投資額について「病院に向けて100億ドルにわずかに届かない額」と述べた。議論の規模が大きく変化したことを示す発言だ。しかし、これは州の投資に関する発言であり、プロジェクト全体の最終予算ではなく、100億カナダドル近くがすでに支出された証拠でもない。保健省は当初、この数字の裏付けを拒み、計画に3,000万カナダドル超を投じたと明らかにするにとどまった。17
この区別が必要なのは、誤解を招く比較を避けるためだ。以前の28億カナダドルという数字はプロジェクト全体の見積額だったのに対し、ピッチーニ氏の新しい数字はオンタリオ州の投資額を示している。同じ費用を対象とする、承認済みの2つの予算として扱うことはできない。
市職員は、市の負担分を賄う選択肢を市議会議員に提示する予定だが、その報告時期は確認されていない。オンタリオ州自由党は、プロジェクト全体の予算を公表し、当初見込まれていた地域負担分の7億カナダドルを超える費用を州が全額負担するよう求めている。これは野党の要求であり、資金負担に関する合意ではない。14
構想が病院になるまで
日程は病院の当初の構想より後ろ倒しになったが、確定した新たな完成日は示されていない。2021年、病院は2024年に着工し、2028年に開院する構想を示していた。2026年4月には、プロジェクト顧問でGBAグループ社長のグラハム・バード氏が、2033~34年の完成を示唆した。ただし、この予測は確定した開院日程ではなかった。20
4月の時点で、作業員は駐車場の工事にあたっていたが、病院棟の建設は始まっておらず、建設契約も締結されていなかった。インフラ・オンタリオが2022年に出した提案依頼には、エリスドンとPCLコンストラクターズの企業連合から1件の入札があった。病院、インフラ・オンタリオ、両建設会社は、2024年2月以降、開発の詳細について協議を続けていた。20
5,000万カナダドルの拠出は、それ自体として高く評価されるべきものだ。将来の医療と研究に向けた大きな貢献である。しかし、それだけで、将来の構想を実際に利用できる病院へと変える予算や建設契約の代わりにはならない。寄付者には、キャンペーンが目標に近づいていることが分かる。一方、患者や納税者には、総額、誰が負担するのか、いつ医療を開始できるのかを知る必要がある。
情報源11
媒体別の全情報源
11媒体の25件の情報源· 引用の多い順
cbc.ca4
- $50M donation to new Civic campus lands amid uncertainty over project's total cost | CBC News
- The Ottawa Hospital receives $50M donation toward new Civic campus
- Minister's office says city has ‘important role to play’ in evolving Ottawa hospital cost | CBC News
- New Ottawa Civic hospital opening likely delayed by years, says project consultant | CBC News
The Ottawa Hospital Foundationohfoundation.ca3
ottown: Ottawa's City Guideottown.ca2
peterkarwacki.blogspot.com未確認のサイト2
lifestylesmagazine.com1
Ottawa Business Journalobj.ca1
WYDE Newsroomwyde.org1
放送時の内容
- The Peter Gilgan Foundation has committed fifty million dollars to The Ottawa Hospital's new campus.
- The planned critical-care tower will serve seriously ill and injured patients from across the region and beyond. But the hospital's final construction bill is still unsettled. How far does this gift move the project toward a fully funded hospital that patients can enter?
- The fifty-million-dollar commitment supports the Campaign to Create Tomorrow. In recognition, the hospital will name its planned Peter Gilgan Critical Care Tower. The foundation hasn't disclosed how much of the gift has already been paid.
- The announcement came November third at the General Campus, with Premier Doug Ford and Health Minister Sylvia Jones present. All dollar amounts here are Canadian. The hospital foundation calls the commitment the largest philanthropic gift in Ottawa's history.
- Gilgan founded the homebuilder Mattamy Homes. He said his foundation had been talking quietly with the hospital for some time. His family made its final decision recently, and he wants the contribution to encourage others to give.
- The replacement hospital is planned for Carling Avenue near Dow's Lake, close to the existing Civic campus. That hospital opened in November nineteen twenty-four. The new campus design includes six hundred forty-one single-patient rooms and more operating rooms.
- The hospital cares for critically ill and injured people across Eastern Ontario and Western Quebec, and as far away as Nunavut. Its campaign describes a region of one point four million people and an existing network of twenty-two satellite locations.
- The planned tower will house the Trauma Centre, emergency services and intensive care. Its teams will bring doctors and nurses together with respiratory therapists, pharmacists, other health professionals, social workers and spiritual care providers around the sickest patients.
- Hospital chief executive Cameron Love says the tower will bring critical-care teams, advanced technology and resources together around patients and families. Foundation chief executive Tim Kluke says more than fifty thousand individuals and families have already made campaign gifts.
- Kluke says many families, individuals and businesses have made their largest philanthropic contributions to this effort. The foundation is keeping its campaign goal at five hundred million dollars, supporting both the new hospital and research, despite the construction-cost uncertainty.
- The campaign tally ranges from four hundred sixty-four million to four hundred sixty-five million dollars. The million-dollar difference hasn't been explained. Those figures leave thirty-six million or thirty-five million to the fundraising goal. They include no cash-versus-outstanding-pledges breakdown.
- The construction bill reaches into billions. The campaign's remaining fundraising target tells donors how far that campaign has to go. The amount still needed to finance the entire hospital depends on a revised budget and an agreement over who pays.
- The earlier project estimate was two point eight billion dollars, including two point one billion from Ontario. Infrastructure Minister David Piccini now puts provincial investment at just shy of ten billion. He hasn't supplied a finalized all-in project budget.
- The Health Ministry initially wouldn't confirm Piccini's figure. It identified more than thirty million dollars invested in planning. The nearly ten-billion-dollar statement also doesn't tell taxpayers how much money has been paid out.
- Piccini pointed to higher costs, supply chains and municipal fees. Jones's office said the project's scope had evolved, with additional work and requirements emerging through planning. It cited aging infrastructure and changing healthcare needs over coming decades.
- Jones said costs were still being worked out with the developer and builder. Her office described the original estimate as years old. The officials haven't put dollar amounts against the separate factors they say are driving the increase.
- The earlier community share was six hundred eighty-seven million dollars, often rounded to seven hundred million. In twenty twenty-two, Ottawa council was asked for one hundred fifty million toward it. Fundraising was expected to cover much of the rest.
- Ottawa MPP Stephen Blais warned the new provincial figure could imply a local share of two point two-five to two point five billion dollars. He questioned whether local donors and businesses could raise it. Those amounts are his conditional projections.
- Jones's office subsequently described a hospital-development formula of ninety per cent provincial funding and ten per cent local funding. It hasn't released the revised budget or detailed split needed to calculate Ottawa's obligation.
- Her office says the city has an important role and calls its existing contribution a fraction of those in five other Ontario cities. It supplied no comparable amounts. City staff will bring councillors financing options, but haven't confirmed when.
- Ontario Liberals want the full project budget released. They also want the province to cover everything beyond the originally expected seven-hundred-million-dollar community share. That remains an opposition demand while the financing is being worked out.
- The hospital once envisioned construction starting in twenty twenty-four and an opening in twenty twenty-eight. In April, project adviser Graham Bird suggested completion in twenty thirty-three or thirty-four. His projection hasn't become a confirmed opening date.
- At that April stage, crews were building the parking garage. Work on the hospital building hadn't begun, and no construction contract had been signed. Infrastructure Ontario's twenty twenty-two request for proposals had drawn one bid, from EllisDon and PCL Constructors.
- The hospital, Infrastructure Ontario and those builders have been working through development details since February twenty twenty-four. By late October, the hospital said design was complete. The fifty-million-dollar gift supports future care while those construction arrangements are being settled.
- The commitment brings the campaign closer to its goal, while the hospital's full financing and opening schedule still need agreement. The hospital says it's finalizing construction costs and timelines with its construction partners, the Health Ministry and Infrastructure Ontario.
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