The Spring Foundation Report

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the

FOUNDATION

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spring 2020

In This Issue: Message from Providence Care’s President and CEO Page 2

Spotlight on emergency Mental health care Page 4

Staff at providence care hospital touched by donor’s letter Page 5

Ministry approves plans for expanded KGH Redevelopment project After months of waiting, the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care has approved the functional program for redevelopment at Kingston Health Sciences Centre’s (KHSC) Kingston General Hospital (KGH) site – and, it will be a larger, more expansive project than originally proposed. To meet current needs and prepare for future patient growth, four additional floors will be added to the scope of the new tower. “We submitted the first functional program for an eight-storey building in September 2017, but after working with the Ministry it became clear that we needed to think bigger about the long-term needs of our population,” says Krista Wells Pearce, Vice President of Planning and Redevelopment at KHSC. “This expansion will put KHSC in a position to continue providing quality, innovative patient care for years to come.”

Two of the additional four storeys will be home to two new medical-surgical inpatient units. The others will be retained as shelled space and turned into functional patient areas as demand for health care continues to grow in the future. The new patient tower will also house an Emergency Department, Operating Suites, Clinical Laboratories, Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Labour and Delivery Unit, Pharmacy and Data Centre. The project, which will create over 500,000 square feet of new space, is set to be one of the most complex in Kingston’s history. Over the next few months, key groups of hospital staff, physicians, and patient advisors will begin working with a hired design team to map out the details of the tower that will replace the Dietary, Victory and Douglas wings, as well as Etherington Hall. Continued on page 2...


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