Facilities

KELOWNA, BC – A $5 million gift from Jim Pattison (pictured) is the largest donation the KGH Foundation has ever received, and the hospital plans to make the most of the windfall. The Centre for Health System Learning & Innovation aims to reshape the way healthcare is delivered. Read More

KINGSTON, Ont. – Novari Health has executed an agreement with Listowel Wingham Hospitals Alliance (LWHA) to implement our surgical wait list management and eBooking technology at Listowel Memorial Hospital and Wingham and District Hospital. With support from Ontario Health, the Novari ATC technology is being provided as software as a service to the hospitals and all surgical offices. Read More

CHATHAM, Ont. – Bluewater Health, Chatham-Kent Health Alliance, Erie Shores HealthCare, Hôtel-Dieu Grace Healthcare and Windsor Regional Hospital, and their shared service provider TransForm Shared Service Organization, confirmed that the organizations are victims of a ransomware attack. Read More

MISSISSAUGA, Ont. – Trillium Health Partners (THP) and the Government of Ontario are advancing healthcare and health promotion, by building Ontario’s first Women’s and Children’s Hospital. By focusing on women, children, and equity-deserving groups, THP will provide one-of-a-kind services and integrated care that will improve generational health in Mississauga and West Toronto. Read More

WINNIPEG – The Manitoba government is spending $1.5 billion over six years on a massive rebuild of the province’s largest hospital and an expansion of the University of Manitoba’s Bannatyne Avenue campus. The Health Sciences Centre project includes a plan to rebuild the central Winnipeg hospital’s adult bed towers – the core of the hospital – with at least 240 new private rooms, and create more space for complex procedural and diagnostic services, Premier Heather Stefanson last week. Read More

NIAGARA FALLS, Ont. – Niagara residents are celebrating the start of construction on the new South Niagara hospital. On July 18, Premier Doug Ford along with Sylvia Jones, deputy premier and minister of Health, and Kinga Surma, minster of Infrastructure, joined Niagara Health and the Niagara Health Foundation to break ground on the 1.3-million-square-foot hospital. Read More

KITCHENER, Ont. – Community members are being invited to have a say in the future location for a new joint hospital in Kitchener-Waterloo. Grand River Hospital and St. Mary’s General Hospital recently assembled a five-member Site Selection Panel of skilled professionals who are leading the efforts to identify a preferred site for the new hospital. Read More

LONDON, Ont. – For decades, the London Health Sciences Centre and the neighboring St. Joseph’s Health Care London have worked as partners. However, it appears many of the close bonds are being severed, as a formal collaboration agreement has been scrapped and several joint ventures are being restructured, including their highly rated Lawson Health Research Institute, their medical research arm. Read More

KITCHENER, Ont. – Grand River Hospital is celebrating the biggest donation in its history – $15 million – from the founders of Kitchener’s iconic HiWay Market. The legacy gift from Dorothy and Ralph Kraft, who opened the area’s first grocery superstore in 1952 on King Street East, kicked off the official launch of Grand River Hospital Foundation’s $258-million Care Never Stops campaign. Read More

WINNIPEG – Manitoba’s premier, Heather Stefanson (pictured), announced that her government will contribute $30 million to expand an intensive care unit at a Winnipeg hospital. Stefanson said the money will go towards the Grace Hospital Foundation’s campaign to create up to 20 new beds in the facility’s ICU and is part of her Progressive Conservative government’s plan to “heal healthcare in Manitoba.” Read More