{"id":28187,"date":"2012-11-15T10:05:16","date_gmt":"2012-11-15T15:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=28187"},"modified":"2012-11-15T10:05:16","modified_gmt":"2012-11-15T15:05:16","slug":"pmh-overhaul-must-be-done-in-phases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2012\/11\/pmh-overhaul-must-be-done-in-phases","title":{"rendered":"PMH Overhaul Must Be Done In Phases"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_28194\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28194\" style=\"width: 486px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-28194 \" title=\"critical-care-princess-margaret-hospital\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/critical-care-princess-margaret-hospital.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"486\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/critical-care-princess-margaret-hospital.jpg 540w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/critical-care-princess-margaret-hospital-150x69.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/critical-care-princess-margaret-hospital-250x115.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 486px) 100vw, 486px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-28194\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Critical Care Block and New Entry, Princess Margaret Hospital<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Building a brand-new \u201cworld class\u201d hospital to replace the Princess Margaret (PMH) facility demands a $750 million to $1 billion investment, a sum requiring that it be done via a \u201cfour-pronged\u201d development strategy.<\/p>\n<p>Fred Perpall, the incoming Bahamian chief executive of US-based real estate developer, The Beck Group, told Tribune Business that the PMH Critical Care Block facility was the first stage in plans to completely overhaul Nassau\u2019s public hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Beck is the lead designer for the project, and Mr Perpall said that when completed the Critical Care Block would give the Bahamas a facility \u201csecond to none\u201d in the Caribbean.<\/p>\n<p>Explaining that redeveloping PMH in one go would require a sum equivalent to four times\u2019 the Government\u2019s entire annual capital expenditure budget of $250 million, Mr Perpall said it had no choice but to overhaul the hospital in stages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rebuilding the Princess Margaret Hospital requires an estimated investment of $750 million to $1 billion forcing the project to be broken down into four phases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[24,19,335],"class_list":["post-28187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","tag-construction","tag-health","tag-hospital"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}