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Healthcare infrastructure projects in Ontario By Michaela MacPherson ealth care infrastructure projects across Ontario are bringing with them more automated facilities, diagnostic equipment, cancer treatment centres, hospices, operating rooms and other enhancements. Even more important than bricks and mortar, these facilities are helping to improve care and provide a better environment for recovery. Infrastructure Ontario is proud to help deliver critical health care infrastructure to Ontarians with an internationally recognized performance record for building large, complex projects. Here is a look back on projects that reached major milestones in 2018.
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COMPLETED PROJECTS ErinoakKids Centre for Treatment and Development Earlier this year, ErinoakKids opened three new facilities – one in Brampton, a second in Oakville and
a third in Mississauga. These replace a patchwork of 10 mostly leased and undersized facilities to three modern regional centres, in order to offer better co-ordinated care and supports for children and youth, and giving clients and families access to all of their services under one roof. The new, fully accessible buildings provide more and better spaces for services such as occupational, physical and speech therapy, infant hearing screenings, vision services and autism services. Fully accessible outdoor playgrounds, indoor playrooms, gyms, and climbing walls are just a few of the amenities enabling clients to engage in playbased therapy. Features like “truth windows” that reveal elevator shafts moving between floors, tactile furniture, welcoming colours and artwork are integral to the kid-friendly design of the buildings. The Brampton site includes a 26-bed respite centre; the largest in Ontario equipped to care
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for children who are medically fragile, technology dependent, require complex care or are diagnosed with autism. Milton District Hospital In fall 2018, the Milton District Hospital expansion project attained the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) gold certification for new construction with the Canada Green Building Council, surpassing its goal of LEED silver. The project added 330,000 square feet to the existing 125,000 square foot hospital, and was completed in spring 2017 to meet the increasing care needs of Canada’s fastest growing community. Through this expansion, Milton received a 50 per cent increase in inpatient bed capacity, a new MRI machine and other expanded services, such as emergency, surgical, critical care, maternal newborn and diagnostic imaging.
Credit Valley Hospital Credit Valley Hospital celebrated the completion of the third phase of its 20 year expansion plan that has added more space to priority areas for more patients. The hospital marked the momentous occasion with an official ribbon cutting on November 22. The project has improved patient experience, medical technology and created more space to care for the community which includes 187,000 square feet of renovated space and 20,000 square feet of new space for patient care, as well as 12 new or renovated operating rooms.
PROJECTS IN CONSTRUCTION Brockville General Hospital After nearly two decades of planning, ground broke on the largest public infrastructure project in Brockville’s history in the spring. The project will bring a new addition and www.hospitalnews.com