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For a few years now, plans have been underway to construct a brand new hospital in Waterloo Area.
With the area anticipated to develop to 1 million over the following 30 years, the 2 Kitchener hospitals, Grand River and St Mary’s Basic, had been supplied with $5 million to launch plans for a brand new hospital within the space.
Whereas the realm will develop by tons of of hundreds over the approaching many years, the variety of hospitals within the space will stay the identical.
A spokesperson for the hospitals informed Ontario Chronicle that when the brand new hospital opens in Waterloo, St. Mary’s Basic Hospital in Kitchener can be shuttered.
“This will not happen until the new university hospital site opens. At that time, all hospital services will cease at St. Mary’s Queen’s Blvd. location,” they informed Ontario Chronicle in an electronic mail.
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“St. Joseph’s Health System, of which St. Mary’s is a part, will be engaging with Waterloo Region communities to determine both the future of this site and the future of Catholic health care in Waterloo Region.”
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A couple of months in the past, the 2 Kitchener hospitals introduced they’d be merging into one in an effort to make it simpler for sufferers to entry care.
The pair have been hand in hand for many years and have additionally been engaged on the plans for a brand new hospital for a few years.
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On Monday, it was introduced that the brand new hospital could be positioned on grounds owned by the College of Waterloo west of Bearinger Street and Hagey Boulevard.
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The hospital spokesperson stated the brand new hospital would enhance the variety of beds within the space past what’s presently supplied by the 2 hospitals in addition to the Freeport campus of GRH in Kitchener. This enhance could be regardless of the closure of SMGH.
Nevertheless, it is going to be a decade earlier than the brand new hospital opens and SMGH closes because the hospitals say it is going to be 5 years of planning and 5 years of building.
The spokesperson informed Ontario Chronicle the planning time is rounded up and consists of extra than simply the plans to construct the hospital because it additionally accounts for procurement and tendering.
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When the brand new hospital does open its doorways, it’s going to result in plenty of different modifications in addition to Grand River Hospital will turn out to be an ambulatory and pressing care centre, whereas the Freeport Campus is predicted to supply elevated rehabilitation providers and emergency care.
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