A much anticipated, and unfinished, addition to St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto was fast-tracked to keep pace with a fast-moving pandemic.

Ontario has announced it will invest $175 million in 2016-17 to hospitals across the province to keep them in good repair, a $50 million increase over 2015.

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.