“Parry Sound was the first community directed to build a new hospital by the province’s Health Services Restructuring Commission,” says Norman Maciver, chief executive officer, West Parry Sound Health Centre.
The Parry Sound District Hospital, providing acute care, and the St. Joseph’s Hospital, providing chronic care, merged in 1995.
“We are waiting for the Ministry of Health to approve our tender documents before going to tender,” Maciver says.
Site development is nearing completion, Maciver says, and the contractor will move on to a site that is fully serviced.
The new hospital, scheduled to open in 2004, will cost an estimated $63 million and contain 70 acute-care beds, 90 long-term care beds and 20 “elderly capital assistance program” beds.
The community is being asked to contribute $17 million to the project.
