Kingston General Hospital's Redevelopment project creating jobs and expanding health care

The Honourable John Gerretsen, Minister of the Attorney General and MPP for Kingston and The Islands, joined hospital staff, donors, community members and health- care partners today to celebrate the opening of Kingston General Hospital’s newly expanded Intensive Care Unit.

Now in its third year of construction, the KGH’s redevelopment project has provided a significant boost to the local economy. At the peak of construction there were approximately 200 workers on site daily with 85 per cent of the workforce locally sourced. 

The newly expanded Intensive Care Unit boasts more beds, providing patients with improved access to the most urgent care in a family oriented environment that will soon include a family lounge area and quiet consultation rooms.

Patients will begin receiving treatment in portions of the expanded Intensive Care Unit this month.

Expansion of the Intensive Care unit is part of the hospital’s multi-year, multi-million dollar redevelopment project. Construction on the redevelopment project began in July 2008. The first four projects - a new pediatric unit, a new medicine/inpatient oncology unit, a new dialysis unit and a new mental health unit – are now complete and operational. The first phases of the cancer centre expansions are also complete. The overall project is progressing on time and on budget to be completed in spring 2012.

Infrastructure Ontario and the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care are working with Kingston General Hospital to redevelop the facility, which will remain publicly owned and publicly controlled.

Infrastructure Ontario is a Crown corporation dedicated to delivering some of the province’s larger and more complex infrastructure renewal projects - ensuring they are built on time and on budget; as well, it is dedicated to providing the public sector and not-for-profit organizations with long-term financing to renew their infrastructure.

December 2, 2011