NEWS RELEASE
MPP JILL DUNLOP
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MIDLAND — The Ontario government is supporting critical upgrades and renovations at Georgian Bay General Hospital (GBGH) through the planning, design and implementation of the hospital’s Air Handling Unit Replacement Project, ensuring families in Midland and surrounding communities can connect to the care they need, close to home.
“I am proud to be part of a government that recognizes the value in investments like these critical upgrades at GBGH, ensuring that essential infrastructure like the Air Handling Unit Replacement Project is in place to provide high-quality care for our community,” said Jill Dunlop, MPP for Simcoe North. “These improvements will not only enhance the hospital’s efficiency and safety but also contribute to a more comfortable and reliable healthcare environment for patients and staff alike. By investing in our local healthcare infrastructure, we are securing the future of care for families in the area and demonstrating our commitment to the health and well-being of all Ontarians.”
Through this investment, space will be renovated and the air handling units that are original to the hospital will be replaced with modern units at Georgian Bay General Hospital. This critical infrastructure project will bring the space up to current standards and ensure that the hospital is better equipped to provide connected, convenient care, close to home for families in the region.
As a next step, the ministry is working with Georgian Bay General Hospital to complete early planning and design for this project. Once future planning is complete and the project is tendered and awarded, a construction schedule will be confirmed.
“Our government is making record investments to modernize and expand Ontario’s hospitals to connect people of all ages to fast, convenient care, no matter where they live,” said Sylvia Jones, deputy premier and Minister of Health. “This investment will allow Georgian Bay General Hospital to address priority infrastructure needs to better deliver high-quality care to people in Midland and the Georgian Bay region, for years to come.”
Through Your Health: A Plan for Connected and Convenient Care, the Ontario government is expanding and modernizing Ontario’s hospitals, making it faster and easier for people of all ages to connect to the high-quality care they need, where and when they need it.
Quick Facts
- Georgian Bay General Hospital is a 113-bed hospital with a full emergency department, diagnostic imaging, general surgery, obstetrics, ambulatory care, complex continuing care and rehabilitation, dialysis and outpatient day surgery.
- The hospital serves 65,000 full-time residents and more than 150,000 residents and visitors during the summer months, from the communities of Midland and Penetanguishene, the Townships of Tiny, Tay, Springwater, Georgian Bay and Oro-Medonte, and the Beausoleil First Nation community on Christian Island.
- Over the next 10 years, Ontario’s investments will lead to nearly $50 billion in health infrastructure across the province, building 3,000 new beds in addition to over 3,500 critical care, acute and post-acute beds our government has added since 2020.
- Through Your Health, Ontario is getting shovels in the ground for over 50 hospital developments across the province.
- The Ontario government is investing more than $228 million this year to support critical infrastructure upgrades and repairs at 129 hospitals and 58 community health care facilities across the province, a 10 per cent increase from last year. In 2024-25, Georgian Bay General Hospital received a total allocation of $4,215,256 through the Health Infrastructure Renewal Fund program, including $3,500,000 in one-time funding as an Exceptional Circumstance Project (ECP) Grant to support Air Handling Unit replacements to avoid disruption to hospital operations.
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“GBGH is exceptionally grateful for this provincial funding as this will support the replacement of necessary hospital infrastructure including our hydro sub station, medical gas system and air handling units, which are all original to our building from 1976. This critical system replacement will allow GBGH to continue to support local residents in our existing building while planning for an expanded hospital in Midland in the future," said Matthew Lawson, GBGH president and CEO
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