Deal on hospital reached
Mayor announces Council and VHCC work to make Vaughan hospital a reality
The City of Vaughan and the Vaughan Health Campus of Care (VHCC) have executed an agreement that allows the construction of Vaughan's new hospital to move forward.
This agreement will allow the process to begin to receive proposals for construction of the new hospital.
Last month the City and Mackenzie Health signed a 99-year lease for the Mackenzie Vaughan Hospital land. This agreement gives Mackenzie Health access to the land to build and operate the hospital.
QUOTES
"This Council recognizes that the efforts of the Vaughan Health Campus of Care have been instrumental in advancing the goal of a new hospital and healthcare services for our community. We can now work together to provide the services that the people of this City deserve. Building a hospital is about people - it's about investing in people's health and ensuring that we all have access to the very best healthcare services available."
-Mayor Maurizio Bevilacqua
"For more than a decade, the Vaughan Health Campus of Care has been dedicated to bringing a hospital and ancillary healthcare services to the City of Vaughan. I would like to personally thank our board member volunteers, who have worked tirelessly over the years to bring this hospital to Vaughan and have raised more than $8 million for the construction of the hospital. We look forward to our hospital finally being built as quickly as possible, along with the much needed ancillary healthcare services complementing the hospital."
-Michael DeGasperis, Chair, VHCC
QUICK FACTS
- The City of Vaughan acquired 82 acres on the northwest quadrant of Major Mackenzie Drive and Jane Street for an urban Vaughan Healthcare Centre Precinct and five acres south of Major Mackenzie Drive as a potential future transit hub.
- The City of Vaughan is moving ahead to prepare the site for development, which includes putting necessary municipal infrastructure in place to support the new hospital site and future developments.
- The new Mackenzie Vaughan Hospital will be home to Emergency Care, Critical Care, Surgery, Medicine, Birthing (Obstetrics), Pediatrics, Mental Health and York Region District Stroke Centre services.