Thunder Bay Unseen

The two access roads to the hospital have been named in honour of two major fundraisers, who worked tirelessly in order to ensure that Thunder Bay got the new hospital it desparately needed.
Donald R. Caddo worked with the Care Beyond Compare Campaign in order to establish a new acute care hospital for the Thunder Bay region.
Keith Jobbitt continues to be a major fundraiser for Thunder Bay's Save A Heart Campaign, which is working towards updating and upgrading the city's Cardiac Catheterization Lab.

The emergency entrance is atop the hill at the entrance to the hospital. The waiting room is ringed by large glass windows, as seem in the right side of the picture. The emergency room is actually on the second floor of the hospital but is on same floor as the main entrance to the building.
This emergency room is amongst the busiest in the entire country with over 90,000 visits annually on average.
To the left, marked by the black security fence, is the landing pad for the air ambulance.
Around the corner from the emergency entrance is the all season ambulance entrance.

These stairs have been in the news locally quite a bit lately. They were intended as an easy access from street level to the Emergency Entrance but have degraded so much as to be unusable after only two years.
It seems that the contractors did not use materials that would stand up to the dramatic Northwestern Winters. and now the hospital is going to need to foot the bill to replace the stairs.
Until the stairs were replaced people were having to walk down to the corner and climb the hill via the sidewalk or, as you can see from the photograph, if they are mobile enough they were scaing the hill beside the stairs, which was repsonsible for killing off all the grass.

Along the eastern side of the hospital lays a large part of the water drainage works. The land upon which the hospital was built is actually quite swampy with a high water table. A large system of drainage channels and collection ponds were built into the surrounding landscape.
The landscaping is also an intergral part of the image of the new hospital. Each room in the building has at least one window that faces outside. The center of the hopital deatures large courtyards to allow even the rooms in the interior this same benefit. The outside views, natural sunlight, and park-like setting all help to contribute to the healing atmosphere of the center.

The main entrance of the Health Sciences Centre actually lies at the rear west corner of the main building, at the west end of the grand atrium. The wooden scaffolding follows the curving atrium out to its termination and actually crosses over the road on the left hand side of the above photograph or the below photograph. The photograph below also gives a little more insight into the detail of the construction of the wooden scaffolding and the mess of cables and anchors used to keep it in place.

Much like the entrance to the Cancer Centre, the entrance to Renal Services is also understated when compaired to the East Entrance or the Main Entrance. It does, however, feature a large slooped roof unloading area, as well as a covered walking and seating area closer to the entrance.