Oh great, take what money they have left over in the budget and spend it on all the new signs, letter head and hey are they going to pay $150,000 for a logo to be generated again ? Leave the name as it is !

We should have a contest to choose a new name for the hospital, my suggestions:

- Hotel Gridlock
- No Vacancy

Save the money and focus more attention on Prevention. The top three causes of death and therefore hospitalization (1.Heart Disease 2. Cancer 3. Stroke) are preventable. The problem is people aren't being told how to live to be healthy. At my office we try, every Tuesday at 7pm there is health lecture, everyone is invited no strings attached, just call and let us know your coming.

Spend ANY extra money on the people of the area-NOT on a new name for Hospital.
The cost is too much.
This building is a hospital-
This building is in PG-
This building serves the PG area-
PGRH says it all.
LEAVE IT ALONE.

Save the money and focus more attention on Prevention. The top three causes of death and therefore hospitalization (1.Heart Disease 2. Cancer 3. Stroke) are preventable. The problem is people aren't being told how to live to be healthy. At my office we try, every Tuesday at 7pm there is health lecture, everyone is invited no strings attached, just call and let us know your coming.

Save the money and focus more attention on Prevention. The top three causes of death and therefore hospitalization (1.Heart Disease 2. Cancer 3. Stroke) are preventable. The problem is people aren't being told how to live to be healthy. At my office we try, every Tuesday at 7pm there is health lecture, everyone is invited no strings attached, just call and let us know your coming.

Save the money and focus more attention on Prevention. The top three causes of death and therefore hospitalization (1.Heart Disease 2. Cancer 3. Stroke) are preventable. The problem is people aren't being told how to live to be healthy. At my office we try, every Tuesday at 7pm there is health lecture, everyone is invited no strings attached, just call and let us know your coming.

Maybe Dr Kelly wants it names for him?

University Hospital? Northern BC?

Is this going to be like the "Capital of the North"? You know, taking on that name without considering the remaining interests in the North who may not agree with that.

Give me a break. PGRH is not a University Hospital and likely never will be. What region it is the hospital for I also do not know. I assume when someone needs care in Fort St. John or in Terrace that cannot be provided locally, they get flown to Vancouver, not PG.

If it is a University Hosptial, what will the University have to do with running it? And if it does have something to do with running it, which university will it be?

Remember, we do not have a UNBC Medical Faculty, we have a UBC Medical Faculty which operates a northern program out of UNBC.

In the case of Vancouver, for instance, the UBC Hospital is part of the Vancouver Hospital facilities grouped under the Vancouver Hospital and Health Sciences Centre. They include:

- Vancouver General Hospital - 950 beds
- UBC Hospital - on UBC campus
- GF Strong Rehab Centre
- George Pearson Centre - for adults with severe disabilities

Total capacity of the group is about 1,900 beds.

So, if anyone wishes to spend the money to change a name because it might help bring some better facilties into this city and region, such as a cancer clinic, more acute beds and even more ER beds from the sounds of it, then change it to something which goes further than just a "University".

Take a page from Vancouver and operate a facility called: Prince George Regional Hospital and Health Sciences Centre.

Go to the Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre to see how it works in a remote section of Ontario.
http://www.tbrhsc.com/regional_centres

Once you do that, then other hospitals in the surrounding region which "feed into" the system might want to get involved - Quesnel, Smithers, Terrace, Rupert, Ft. St. John, etc.

Then again, Fort St. John may be more closely aligned with the health facilities in Northern Alberta for all I know and is not even part of the Northern equation when it comes to the reality of the situation.

While I am a proponent of the University and stand up for it being in this community, very much including the medical program, I think too many people have too much "univerity" on their brain when it comes to do things which the university is a partner in, but certainly not the primary partner.

Let the University walk before it can run with repsect to its medical program. It does not have post doctoral research programs as yet, as far as I know, certainly not of the stature where it would justify renaming the only hospital in this area the University Hospital.

When it does, and when UNBC might get its own Medical Faculty, then it can easily fit into the agglomeration called "Health Sciences Centre" or something like that.

To rename an existing buiding something which gives people the impression that we are Lords of the North is not politically astute when it comes to those who live in the North. Southerners likely do not understand that and it appears to me that too mnay in PG do not understand that either.

Too many here bring the lower mainland mentality 800 km to the North. We, of all people, should understand that.

That is ok there people ...we are beyond Hope so don't expect too much here..
When it comes right down to it do we really need our hospital named...probably not...
is it going to cost...
YOU BET!
And they can deny it all they like and if they do they are liars.

But if it makes the powers to be feel really important and that they have accomplished something in their career...name away...but I have no intentions of paying for it....take it out of your own pocket for achange,

You guys are right, changing the name is a waste of money. It is, in my opinion, a case of people at the top of their profession forgetting where they came from, how else can they lose their focus, and decide that an institution (pgrh) must have a new name 'to reflect its dramatically expanding role' What malarkey! Changing the name will not change anything else. There will be a significant expenditure (lets count ALL the costs here, how about letterhead, rubber stamps, envelopes, business cards, all of the internal forms-there must be hundreds, signage-another big item, any promotional materials, website,) I could go on, but I think it is obvious to the layperson that changing the name of a wlle established institution is not only exceedingly expensive, but unecessary.
metalman.

Four postings by travism qualifies as advertising (for free!)does it not??
Our role may have expanded but the physical beds and staff have not.Our state of the art ER is in a constant state of Code Gridlock.We've been at a critical point for years!!Read the article on the weekend about the pt that ended up in a "shower room" The family indignant that a taxpayer of 52yrs would bw treated in such a manner.WE ARE ALL TAXPAYERS!The state of PGRH and most Cdn hospitals has been in the papers for a long time and on the news Canada-wide.Funny how no one cares until it affects them.Take the blinders off.
Renaming it will not make it work better and is a waste of $$.Maybe we should be like the multiplex (which the majority of people still call it)and put it up for bid.
UNBC certainly can't afford it as they are looking at layoffs and budget cuts. Deciding the staff's fates while on retreat.Guess using one of the many conference rooms or Canfor theatre wasn't an option.

How about " The Prince George Walk-in Hospital/Clinic?" Print up the new brochures. New signs. New stationery. New uniforms. No more nurses and doctors. We are teams. Just like the mall employees. And we are also "associates". Even bank tellers are called "officers of the bank". A title goes a long way for morale increases. The limits are endless.