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Contractor set, groundbreaking next for WLMH By Mike Williscraft NewsNow EllisDon Infrastructure Healthcare (EDIH) has been selected as con-
tractor of choice to rebuild West Lincoln Memorial Hospital. Infrastructure Ontario (IO) and Hamilton
Health Sciences (HHS) made the announcement Monday, selecting EDIH after extensive evaluations as part of a
process which began in June 2021. Mary Volk, who has been part of WLMH’s board-level manage-
ment team preceding the amalgamation of HHS and WLMH said the community is seeing the results of 25
years of resilience. “So many people have worked so hard for so many years to get our new hospital. It is truly gratifying to see all those efforts finally paying off. We look forward to seeing shovels in the ground very soon with this proven contractor. My sincere thanks to everyone involved,” said Volk, who served a three-year term on the final WLMH board and is in her ninth and final year on the HHS board. IO and HHS will now work to finalize contract details with EDIH. The project is expected to reach financial close soon, which will mean that relevant contracts have been signed and a financing rate has been set. The contract cost will be announced publicly following the financial close with construction scheduled to begin shortly thereafter. It is hoped a groundbreaking could come in midto late-April. While, for many, getting to this point has literally taken decades, in the end, it has come together with remarkWith another piece in the puzzle, the awarding of the construction contract, for WLMH’s rebuild was another major step able speed. forward on Monday. (Design rendering of future WLMH) See GROUNDBREAKING, Page 2