Reactivation Care Centre in Hamilton breaks ground

HAMILTON — A new Reactivation Care Centre in Hamilton, Ont. is underway with the province recently marking the start of construction.

The new facility, in partnership with St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton and Hamilton Health Sciences, will provide people who no longer require hospital care with restorative and specialty care.

The province is investing more than $16 million to build the new centre. Once complete, the 28,000-square-foot facility will include 57 transitional care beds across three units to connect people to a variety of reactivation care needs, including complex care, dementia care services and behavioural support services.

The new facility will also have four rooms with dialysis services, a release reads.

Reactivation care is an innovative model of care that provides people with a “seamless transition from hospital to their community care providers when they no longer require hospital care.”

The government is also getting shovels in the ground in the Hamilton area for the St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton psychiatric emergency service redevelopment, Hamilton General Hospital’s emergency department expansion and the West Lincoln Memorial Hospital redevelopment.