Guru Nanak Community Services Foundation

Brampton Civic Hospital
The new hospital at Bramalea Road and Bovaird Drive in Brampton will be ready for its first patients in the fall of 2007. It will address current deficiencies and meet the health care needs of our community well into the 21st century.

Comprising more than one million square feet, this new facility will be constructed in two distinct blocks and will contain:

1) An Inpatient Tower with Outpatient/Ambulatory Care.
2) A Diagnostic/Therapeutic building that includes a state-of-the-art Emergency Department with a separate and specially designed paediatric area for our youngest patients.

Since construction began in October 2004 on open, green-field land donated by the Chinguacousy Health Services Board, 85,000 cubic metres of concrete have been poured and more than 10,000 metric tonnes of steel has been erected. Currently, the project is about 60 per cent complete. An amazing one million labour hours were utilized in 2005 with up to 750 construction workers on the site each day.

When it opens, the new hospital will offer:

• 608 acute care beds (up from 353 at the current Lynch St. site)
• 160,000 ambulatory care visit capacity per year (up from 103,000)
• 110,000 outpatient visits annually
• 90,000 emergency department visit capacity per year (up from 69,800)
• more than 1,000,000 square feet (up from 572,000)
• 18 Operating Rooms (up from 9)
• 95 Mental Health beds for adults and adolescents (up from 45)

As mentioned, the design of this hospital took years of planning and consultation with staff, doctors, nurses and community members. It incorporates elements such as landscaping and natural light to create a healing environment for both the body and soul.

Patient rooms will be larger and more comfortable for both patients and their families, accommodating for overnight visitors. In addition, they will be designed for better access to washroom facilities. Patients in complex continuing care, palliative care and the mental health program and their families will enjoy a home-like environment. Finally, specialty shops and a pharmacy will all be part of a public area.

As just one example of the exciting new clinical improvements, the new hospital in Brampton will house two cardiac catherization labs. These new facilities will give local physicians access to high-tech tools to treat heart disease that they do not currently have. Here, doctors can insert stents into severely blocked arteries without performing full-fledged open-heart surgery.

The following programs and services will be provided at the Bramalea Road and Bovaird Drive hospital:

• Ambulatory Care
• Ambulatory Oncology Services
• Child and Adolescent Mental Health
• Critical Care
• Dialysis
• Emergency Services – The Guru Nanak Emergency Services Department
• Inpatient Mental Health Services
• Maternal/Newborn Services
• Medical/Surgical Units
• Outpatient Rehabilitation Services

As well as these new Services:

• Ambulatory Mental Health services
• Ambulatory Procedures Unit
• Cardio-respiratory and electro-diagnostic services
• Surgical suite and Day Surgery Unit
• Psychogeriatric Services

Moreover, these new Regional Services:

• Cardiac Procedures Suite
• Dialysis
• Level II and Neo Natal Intensive Care Unit
• High Risk Obstetrical Services

William Osler Health Centre

• A Centre of Excellence in Diagnostic Imaging including PACS, MRI and CT
• One of four community hospitals in Ontario designated as a regional paediatric centre by the Child Health Network
• Our Women’s and Children’s Health Care Program offers a Level II Special Care Nursery in Etobicoke and an Advanced Level II Neonatal Intensive Care Nursery at Peel Memorial Hospital.
• Ontario’s largest Orthopedic Service
• A Child and Adolescent Regional Mental Health program and comprehensive adult services
• A single entry point to obtain specialized clinical services at any hospital in a timely fashion
• Acute care facilities linked electronically by fibre optics to allow for the rapid transmission of images, sound and other data allowing physicians to consult from different locations

Our community also has access to talented and experienced physicians, surgeons, technicians and staff working together to deliver the highest standard of patient-centred care. Currently, William Osler Health Centre offers:

• 600 beds
• 3,700 staff members, 670 physicians and 1,000 volunteers
• 140,000 emergency visits per year. More than the large downtown hospitals
• 165,000 outpatient visits annually
• 26,000 orthopedic surgery and clinic visits annually
• 7,000 births each year (five per cent of all Ontario births)
• The second highest volume of cancer surgeries in the Greater Toronto Area.

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