About the Project
The centerpiece of the new NHS health-care complex will be a five-storey, 980,800 square foot state-of-the-art facility. It will be significantly larger than the present facilities at the St. Catharines General and Ontario Street Sites.
Healthcare is a competitive industry and there are shortages of doctors, nurses and other medical professionals across the country. This new world-class health-care complex will set the standard for healthcare throughout Ontario and across the country, becoming a coveted place to work and attracting the best and brightest to the Niagara Region.
The facility will include:
Replacement facility for the aging St. Catharines General and Ontario Street Sites
- Acute care facility serving residents of St. Catharines, Thorold, Niagara-on-the-Lake and surrounding communities with a full-range of acute/critical care, surgical, emergency, mental health and ambulatory services
Brand new regional services
- The Walker Family Cancer Centre to provide close-to-home treatment for the more than 1,200 cancer patients who currently travel to Hamilton or Toronto for life-saving radiation treatment
- A Regional Longer-Term Mental Health Program with longer-term inpatient mental health beds, combined with acute inpatient mental health beds and ambulatory care services for Niagara residents
- A Regional Cardiac Catheterization Program to provide diagnostic investigation services, reducing hospitalizations for heart disease, lowering wait times and improving access to treatment
- An expanded dialysis services enabling the hospital to act as the hub of the Niagara Regional Renal Program, accompanied by a permanent dialysis unit in Welland
For more information on the programs and services to be offered at the new health-care complex, click here to be redirected to the Niagara Health System website.
We have been awarded the contract to design, build, finance and maintain the NHS health-care complex over approximately 34 years (almost 4 years of construction and 30 years of building maintenance).
