Ontario building new hospital in East Gwillimbury
Source: Ontario Newsroom | Department: Health
Province building new East Gwillimbury hospital and expanding current Southlake Hospital to connect more people in the region to high-quality hospital care.
EAST GWILLIMBURY — The Ontario government is investing $10 million to advance plans for Southlake Health’s new acute care hospital in East Gwillimbury as well as the redevelopment of Southlake Health’s existing hospital in Newmarket. Together, these projects will connect more than 250,000 people across communities in northern York Region and southern Simcoe County to more convenient, high-quality care close to home.
“Our government is delivering on our plan to protect Ontario’s health-care system by investing $64 billion to build and upgrade over 50 hospitals across the province,” said Premier Doug Ford. “With today’s announcement of a new, state-of-the-art hospital in East Gwillimbury and the redevelopment of Southlake Health in Newmarket, we’re ensuring that people in York Region and Simcoe County have reliable access to world-class care for generations to come.”
The new funding will support a distributed health network by advancing early planning for a new acute care hospital in East Gwillimbury, near the site of the future Bradford Bypass. Once opened, the new hospital would include:
- Expanded acute and post-acute care, including medicine, surgery, orthopedics, rehabilitation, maternal and child health, and pediatric mental health
- Increased inpatient capacity to meet the community’s future needs and allow more people to connect to care sooner
- New emergency department with diagnostic imaging and upgraded infection prevention and control measures.