Milton District Hospital Redevelopment

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Opportunity Milton District Hospital—serving Canada’s fastest growing community— is part of Halton Healthcare, a progressive, multi-site healthcare organization that provides services to more than 300,000 residents in Oakville, Milton and Halton Hills. In order to better serve the needs of all users including seniors, children, individuals with visual or cognitive impairments and individuals using wheelchairs or other mobility aids, it was necessary to expand the 125,000 square-foot hospital. Innovations Plenary Health fianced and constructed the expansion, only receiving a payment from the government at substantial completion. This provides significant incentive to complete the project on-time. Results The expansion project adds four-storeys and 300,000 square feet to the existing hospital. Features include: Expansion of emergency, surgical services, medical/surgical inpatient units, critical care, maternal newborn and diagnostic imaging and support services; Overall capacity increase from 63 to 129 beds; Eighty per cent single-patient rooms for improved infection prevention and control and to provide increased patient privacy and a quieter healing environment; The addition of the hospital’s first Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) machine; and A Level 2A Special Care Nursery with capacity for eight bassinets in the Maternal Newborn Unit. The hospital continues to be publicly owned and controlled with healthcare services publicly funded and administered. The expansion met Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Silver certification including water use reduction, the use of low-emitting materials and construction activity pollution prevention.

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