Location: Vaughan, ON
Status: Operational February 2021 (COVID-19 resource); Operational June 2021 (Full community hospital operations)
Value of Partnership: $1.3B
Type of P3: Design-Build-Finance-Maintain (DBFM)
Handback/P3 Agreement Ends: 2051
Partners: Mackenzie Health, Infrastructure Ontario and Plenary Health
Awards: 2021 Gold Award for Infrastructure, National Awards for Innovation & Excellence in P3s
This $1.3-billion project, the first hospital built in the City of Vaughan and the first net new hospital to be built in Ontario in the last 30 years, has a state-of-the-art emergency department, capacity for up to 350 beds with flexibility to expand, and is the first hospital in Canada to feature fully integrated smart technology, enabling systems and medical devices to communicate directly with one another.
In February 2021, as it prepared to open, the hospital pivoted to temporarily become a system-wide resource supporting Ontario’s COVID-19 response. From its initial opening until its full opening in June 2021, the facility cared for some of the highest volumes of COVID-19 patients in Ontario.
In 2021, the judging committee for the National Awards for Innovation & Excellence in P3s was impressed by how well the hospital pivoted ahead of its opening and the innovations deployed by the consortium to keep the complex project on time and on budget such as the use of prefabricated bathroom modules.
