County injects cash into Collingwood hospital
Barrie Examiner – August 9 2010
Simcoe County will cover almost half the cost of the renovation and expansion project now underway at the Collingwood General & Marine Hospital.
Warden Cal Patterson presented a cheque for $307,993 to Shelley Wells, hospital board chairwoman, on Monday.
The first phase of the clinical redevelopment project is the initial step in the hospital’s plan to address the severe space shortage in the existing facility.
“It is our hope that we will receive a planning grant from the ministry of health which will allow us to begin to plan for a major expansion to the G&M,” said Linda Davis, president and CEO of the hospital. “This longer term project will be designed to meet the needs of our communities over the next 25 years.”
In 2007, county council committed $30 million in funding to the Simcoe County Hospital Alliance (SCHA) during a 10-year period, to provide support for hospital capital projects.
This SCHA is comprised of all the hospitals in the area which provide care for county residents.
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