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August 29, 2005
Sunnybrook Women’s College
Four floors added in hospital expansion
Toronto’s Sunnybrook and Women’s College Health Sciences Centre is poised to embark on a $200-million expansion after receiving a nod of approval from the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care.
The project will include construction of four floors on top of Sunnybrook campus’ M-wing that will be the future home of the obstetrics and gynecology program and neo-natal intensive-care unit.
They are are currently located at Women’s College Hospital.
Two of the floors will house new laboratory space and core technology facilities for Sunnybrook & Women’s Research Institute.
As part of the project, Sunnybrook’s emergency department will be renovated and expanded.
Robert Orr, the Sunnybrook-campus-based executive project manager for redevelopment, said the centre hopes to have a shovel in the ground next spring on both components. The G & G Partnership, the hospital’s architect, is currently preparing working drawings.
“We’ve done the drawings,” Orr said. “But we’re not sure how they (the health ministry) are going to ask us to go forward.
“We’re not sure if this is going to be a conventional tender call or if we are going the alternative financing and procurement route.”
The health sciences centre also hopes to renovate its downtown orthopaedic and arthritic campus. That facility is to become a centre of excellence in hip and knee replacements. Orr said a “high-level business case” has been made, but no plans developed.
“They (the health ministry) have approved that in concept,” he said. “But how that is going to unfold, I don’t know.” A three-point plan for improving services at the centre recently was approved by George Smitherman, the province’s minister of health and long-term care.
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