Hospital News
In mid-July, Windsor health care officials
unveiled the long-awaited blueprint for the region’s
new state-of-the-art hospital, and revealed more
details about its anticipated integration and
co-ordination with existing healthcare sites.
A new 10-storey, 500 bed hospital will be built
on the edge of the city, occupying a 24-hectare
piece of land near County Road 42 and Concession
Road 9. The land, purchased from the O’Keefe
family, came at a price of $6.1 million.
The new mega-hospital will serve as the area’s
acute care centre, meeting complex regional trauma
and emergency needs, as well as fcardiac and
cancer care. Critical care, neurosurgery, neonatal
intensive care, obstetrics and paediatrics will also
be offered there, along with in-patient medical and
surgical units and acute specialty clinics. The site
will also include a helipad, something previously
unavailable at any Windsor hospital.
The plan also includes changes to two existing
sites in Windsor and the redevelopment of the
former Grace Hospital site on Crawford Avenue in
Windsor.
The vacant Grace site, currently owned by the
city, will be home to the construction of a
four-storey urgent care site operated by Windsor
Regional Hospital. The urgent care centre will be
open a minimum of 18 hour a day to patients with
non-life-threatening emergencies. It will be staffed
with emergency room doctors and nurses, and will
not accept patients arriving by ambulance. If
necessary, patients can be transferred to the new
mega-site.
The City of Windsor will swap the Grace land in
exchange for the current Metropolitan campus on
Lens Avenue. Once the new hospital on County
Road 42 is built, the Met building will close and be
torn down, and the City will take possession.
It is expected that the Ouellette campus, still
recognized locally as “Hotel Dieu” will once again
be run by Hotel-Dieu Grace Healthcare
(HDGH)and redeveloped to support outpatient
mental-health services. The Taylor Campus in West
Windsor will remain under the operation of HDGH
and provide complex continuing ca