The City of Burlington, Ontario recently announced that Joseph Brant Memorial Hospital is the “preferred site” for the Halton McMaster Family Health Centre, about 13 kilometres northeast of Hamilton.
The province approved a $300 million redevelopment of Joseph Brant Memorial Hospital last summer. The Joseph Brant Hospital Foundation has committed to raising $60 million through a fundraising campaign and City Council voted in 2009 to kick in $60 million.
The site plan application for the first phase of the project will be submitted to the Burlington planning and building department in May of this year. Built in 1961, Joseph Brant Memorial Hospital is on North Shore Boulevard, just off the Burlington Skyway, where the Queen Elizabeth Way bypasses the port and industrial area of Hamilton.
The redevelopment of the hospital is expected to include 10 new operating rooms, a new intensive care unit, more beds and lab facilities plus enlarged parking facilities.
The city stated in a press release Jan. 26 that the hospital will begin with request for proposals and tender on Phase 1 in 2012 and construction in 2013.
“Phase 2 will go through a similar process with the tender award in 2014.”
The press release was issued jointly by the city, the hospital, McMaster University and the Regional Municipality of Halton, which is the upper tier of municipal government Burlington as well as the neighbouring municipalities of Milton, Oakville and Halton Hills.
The city and regional governments have committed $10 million to McMaster University as part of the Ron Joyce Centre. That centre would house the DeGroote School of Business, on South Service Road. The project included a commitment by Hamilton-based McMaster University to open a Halton McMaster Family Health Centre in downtown Burlington.
"Although we are still working through our approval process, we know this location for the family health centre will be an excellent opportunity to strengthen our ties to Joseph Brant Memorial Hospital for the benefit of the hospital, the residents of Burlington and Halton and the Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine," Dr. David Price, chair of the Department of Family Medicine at McMaster University, stated in a press release. "This centre will also serve our expanding family medicine program in the Region."
McMaster University plans to use two floors, and about 15,000 square feet of Joseph Brant hospital as part of the Phase 1 project.
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