Toronto’s St. Michael’s Hospital (St. Michael’s) is adding a state-of-the-art 17-storey patient care tower, known as the Peter Gilgan Patient Care Tower, to its facilities and Bondfield Construction (Bondfield) has been selected to build it. Bondfield will also renovate approximately 150,000 square feet of existing space to expand the hospital’s Slaight Family Emergency Department and replace a 100-year-old wing.
The modern tower, capable of accommodating up to 75,000 patient visits a year, will provide care for critically ill individuals. It will feature:
- Five new operating rooms with advanced medical imaging equipment;
- Hybrid operating rooms for a variety of procedures;
- Expanded inpatient facilities for orthopedic surgery, oncology and respirology;
- Larger intensive care units for coronary and medical-surgical patients; and
- Private patient rooms with space for families.
“This building and redevelopment project will transform patient care at St. Michael’s Hospital,” says Dr. Robert Howard, President and CEO at St. Michael’s. “Everything in the new Peter Gilgan Patient Care Tower has been designed, using the best evidence available, to care for critically ill patients as we seek to become the premier critical care hospital in Canada. We’re also looking forward to our new Emergency Department, which will be almost double in size. The current ED sees about 75,000 patients a year, one and a half times as many as it was designed for.”
Construction and renovations, which have already begun, are expected to take three years. Bondfield was awarded $301-million contract, through Infrastructure Ontario, to complete the project.
“The government’s priority is to always maximize the value of taxpayer’s money – and Infrastructure Ontario has a strong track record of doing just that,” says Brad Duguid, Minister of Economic Development, Employment and Infrastructure. “This significant investment in the St. Michael’s Hospital expansion and renovation will stimulate significant economic development in the community, and provide high quality healthcare services to Ontarians for many years to come.”
