August 25, 2005

FARROW PARTNERSHIP ARCHITECTS INC.

The Credit Valley Hospital is embarking on an ambitious second phase expansion that will provide 140 additional beds in two wings, one of which is shown above. The development is one of a spate of alternative financing and procurement projects approved in recent weeks by the provincial government.

Hospital Expansion

Credit Valley adds new wing

$100-million project will add 275,000-square-feet of space

PATRICIA WILLIAMS

staff writer

Construction is expected to get under way in 2007 on the estimated $100 million expansion at Credit Valley Hospital in Mississauga.

The 275,000-square-foot project will provide some 140 additional inpatient beds for maternal/child, complex continuing care and palliative care patients.

It also includes an expanded laboratory, labour and delivery rooms and a high-density radiation-therapy suite.

Architects are Toronto’s Farrow Partnership Architects Inc., designers of the hospital’s recently opened Carlo Fidani Peel Regional Cancer Centre and the Ambulatory Care Centre.

That 330,000-square-foot expansion effectively doubled the hospital’s previous physical size.

The long-awaited phase two expansion, announced earlier this week, has been approved by the Ministry of Public Infrastructure Renewal as an alternative financing and procurement project. That means the construction work will be financed and carried out by the private sector, which will assume the financial risks if the project is not finished on time and on budget.

A ministry spokesperson said requests for proposals will be issued for consortia to build and finance the expansion.

Hospital board chair Norm Loberg said the expansion is “tremendously important” to the staff, physicians and volunteers caring for patients at the hospital “who have been working in overcrowded, ill-equipped treatment and recovery space for many years.”

He said the hospital is looking forward to imminent approvals from the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care to ensure that certain “head-start” projects associated with the expansion move swiftly into the queue.

One such project is a proposed off-site clinic for outpatient programs and services for women and children.

“We are also hopeful that we will receive approval to move forward with a free-standing day surgery centre that would be part of the same off-site complex.”

A hospital spokesperson said a “substantial amount” of design work already has been done on the expansion project that involves construction of the A and H hospital wings.

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