York Central Hospital Receives Approval to Build New Hospital in Vaughan

Описание: Thursday July 21, 2011
Media Release

York Central Hospital Receives Approval to Build New Hospital in Vaughan

Vaughan, ON. -- Today it was announced that York Central Hospital has been approved to build a new hospital in Vaughan. The Honourable Deb Matthews, Minister of Health and Long-Term Care made the announcement alongside Greg Sorbara, MPP for Vaughan.

Today's announcement confirms the approval of a new hospital for Vaughan in the provincial infrastructure plan. Under the leadership of York Central Hospital, the new hospital in Vaughan will be publicly owned, publicly controlled and publicly accountable. The new hospital in Vaughan will be part of York Central Hospital's two-hospital model for health care services and will ensure people living in the rapidly growing communities of Southwest York Region, including Vaughan and Richmond Hill, have access to high quality, state-of-the-art health care, closer to home.

This announcement follows York Central Hospital's project milestone in April, when its Stage 1 Proposal was delivered to the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care as part of the government's capital planning process. The proposal outlined York Central's plans to create a Major Regional Health System for Southwest York Region, with a new hospital in Vaughan at Jane and Major Mackenzie as well as further development at the existing York Central Hospital on Trench Street in Richmond Hill. The hospitals would also operate alongside community-based locations and will be linked to a regional network of providers.

Planning is underway for a new hospital in Vaughan that will offer:

• A state-of the art Emergency Department
• New Modern Surgical Services and Operating Rooms;
• Access to Acute Inpatient and Intensive Care Beds;
• Technologically Advanced Diagnostic Imaging;
• Specialized Ambulatory Clinics;
• 80 per cent single acute care patient rooms for superior infection prevention and control; and,
• A flexible design to permit adaptation over time as new thinking and best practices emerge.

The new hospital will be enabled by an efficient organizational structure with a single governance, administration and medical staff as part of the two-hospital model. York Central Hospital is currently undergoing a rebranding exercise to represent our expanded mandate as a new major regional health system.