Ontario Building Better, More Modern Facilities in Dufferin-Caledon

Province investing over $3.3 million for critical care upgrades and repairs connecting Ontarians to care, closer to home

Dufferin-Caledon — As part of Your Health: A Plan for Connected and Convenient Care, the Ontario government is improving hospital and community care by investing over $2.7 millionthis year to support critical upgrades and repairs at hospitals and community health facilities in Orangeville. This funding is part of the government’s investment of over $208 million provided through the Health Infrastructure Renewal Fund and the Community Infrastructure Renewal Fund to 131 hospitals and 58 community health facilities across the province.

“By continuing to invest in our hospitals and community health service providers, patients can continue to access the care they need, while providing our local health care system with the tools to improve the quality of care for all Ontarians,” said Sylvia Jones, MPP for Dufferin-Caledon.

Investments include:

Health Infrastructure Renewal Fund, 2023-24

  • Headwaters Health Care Centre: $2,703,088

Community Infrastructure Renewal Fund, 2023-24

  • Pine River Institute: $532,500

Community Infrastructure Renewal Fund, 2023-24

  • Hope Acres: $77,789

Ontario is providing $200 million to hospitals through the Health Infrastructure Renewal Fund and over $8.4 million to community health service providers through the Community Infrastructure Renewal Fund. This funding from the province allows its health care system partners to address urgent infrastructure renewal needs such as upgrades or replacements of roofs, windows, security systems, fire alarms and back-up generators.

With Your Health: A Plan for Connected and Convenient Care, the province is moving quickly to expand and modernize Ontario’s hospitals to ensure patients and their families are able to connect to the quality care they need, when they need it, closer to home.

QUICK FACTS

  • This year, Ontario has increased the Health Infrastructure Renewal Fund by over 14 per cent and the Community Infrastructure Renewal Fund by over 10 per cent.
  • Community health facilities are publicly funded and provide a range of programs to patients across the province, including primary care, community mental health and addictions services, allied health care such as physical therapy and respiratory therapy, and programs and services delivered by a public health unit.
  • Ontario’s investments over the next 10 years will lead to nearly $50 billion in health infrastructure across the province.
  • As of the end of 2022, Ontario approved 50 hospital development projects that will build more than 3,000 new hospital beds in communities across the province over the next 10 years.
  • As of the end of 2022, Ontario has approved 50 hospital development projects that will create more than 3,000 new hospital beds in communities across the province by 2032.

QUOTES

“This investment will help us upgrade some of the critical areas in need across the hospital. Kim Delahunt, President & CEO, Headwaters Healthcare Centre. “We are pleased to receive this funding that is necessary to help us ensure that our building infrastructures continues to meet the growing and evolving needs of patients and our community.”   

Kim Delahunt

President & CEO, Headwaters Healthcare Centre

“We are very appreciative for this support from Minister Jones and the Government of Ontario via the Community Infrastructure Renewal Program. This grant will allow us to undertake an important renewal to parts of our main building. Once complete, this work will let us continue to serve the youth in our program in a safe and up-to-date facility.”

Vaughan Dowie

CEO, Pine River Institute

“The Salvation Army Hope Acres is very appreciative of the support from the Ontario Ministry of Health through the Community Infrastructure Renewal Fund.  The grant of $77,789 will allow us to complete urgently needed roofing repairs in our client residence building.  The Salvation Army Hope Acres is located in a beautiful rural setting in Dufferin County and offers evidence-based live-in treatment to men from across Ontario who are living with substance use and mental health concerns.  Since 1968, Hope Acres has offered a place of new beginnings, where we support our residents to experience recovery in body, mind and spirit.”

Elizabeth Price

Executive Director, The Salvation Army Toronto Harbour Light Ministries

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

Media Contact:

Heather Grégoire, EA for Sylvia Jones, MPP Dufferin-Caledon

heather.gregoire@pc.ola.org