Re: Nelson Health Campus to be complete this year, open early 2025, Feb. 28
Your article on the new Health Campus all sounds quite positive. I applaud the new development, but I have to question why Interior Health didn’t just partner up with the Columbia Basin Trust in order to build the new facility.
Interior Health owned the old building and the property, but will have to pay rent to Golden Life Management to operate the facility, which will now, according to your article, be owned by Columbia Basin Trust and Golden Life management.
Did this consortium pay for this property or did we just hand it over in order to facilitate the privatization? My understanding is that the rent will start out at three quarters of a million annually, but as we all know rent is likely to go up over time, and we the public will be on the hook to pay, pay, pay for a facility we once owned. What a stupid decision on the part of Interior Health, and what a shameful alliance for Columbia Basin Trust. This is health care privatization, plain and simple.
Rod Retzlaff
Glade