Nowhere. Dude's dead, apparently.
The "dude" was a child who died of cancer; so perhaps less comedy? His very rich parents spent a lot of time at the hospital while he was in its care, and have donated a lot of money to (obviously) TEGH as well as St. Joe's and Sick Kids in his name. I don't necessarily agree that the hospital should've been renamed after him however, but any money put into health care in this province is a net positive. And I believe that the Garron family donations come from an honest place and not a need to see their name on something.
Regardless, it is a shining example of the issues with healthcare funding in the province and charitable donation tax credits.
My wife had a procedure at MGH last week. The promotional screens in the waiting rooms tout how MGH has been consistently run an operating budget surplus for 8 years. As if that should matter when your primary goals are to save lives and protect health. It matters to provincial bean counters though. That's not to say there aren't room for efficiencies, etc. But the people whose lives are in the hands of the hospitals probably don't want to know you were able to cheap out on some things enough to have a budget surplus and please the politicians who simultaneously claim our health system doesn't have enough money, but don't want risk jumping on the political hand grenade of raising taxes to invest in it.
Because of healthcare underfunding, things like capital expenditures are reliant on fundraising and big donations like the $50m the Garrons gave. It's not like this influx of money suddenly came with a list of new ideas of how to upgrade and modernize the building. It was all on a wishlist that they couldn't afford, nor depend on funding from the province. And instead of $50m being spread around the province to the areas most in need (like rural communities), it all gets spent on one hospital who probably could've made out pretty damn well with a half of that number. Yet again, we end up with the situation of another rich person buys their family name on public property and gets part of it back anyway as a tax credit, meaning potentially less tax revenue and less money to pump back into the system.
Yay?
The naming of public property should be done based on deeds and cultural importance; not how much money was spent on something. Charitable donations shouldn't beget a tax credit—or say, a max of $500/yr—because charity should come from an honest place and not be an arms race in the "how rich am I" game the 1%ers play (I'm looking at you, Weston family). And finally, honest large sum donations like the Garrons have made should be put back into the system in its entirety, not focused on individual locations. Because ultimately, the most populous places will see the biggest donations, and rural communities get left behind and have their hospitals shuttered.