The committee seeking to choose a website for the area’s new hospital is predicted to provide a public replace to the method in Could.
A spokesperson for the Constructing the Way forward for Care Collectively Committee advised Ontario Chronicle the challenge is on observe and the positioning choice panel has made their suggestions to the committee.
“We can’t share any additional info presently to guard the integrity and equity of the place we’re at present within the course of,” Kara Weiler stated in an announcement Wednesday.
In April 2022, the Ontario authorities introduced it had accepted a $5-million grant to construct the brand new hospital.
5 potential websites have been submitted to the positioning choice panel in November and three areas have been short-listed since then. The ultimate determination on the positioning shall be as much as the 2 hospitals concerned.
The brand new hospital is a three way partnership between Grand River Hospital and St. Mary’s Basic Hospital. The challenge consists of the development of a brand new hospital, in addition to the modernization of current hospitals within the area.
As soon as the brand new hospital is constructed, preliminary plans are to repurpose Grand River’s midtown Kitchener-Waterloo campus into an ambulatory and pressing care centre. Plans are additionally in place to broaden the Freeport campus for extra rehabilitation companies.
The brand new hospital is predicted to change into operational in 2034-2035.
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