(photo from South Bruce Grey Health Centre board presentation)
The Kincardine Hospital redevelopment process has reached another milestone.
A “Stage Two” working paper has been sent to the Ministry of Health.
At the regular board meeting of the South Bruce Grey Health Centre (SBGHC), President & CEO Michael Barrett says the paper is some pretty heavy reading.
Coming in at 18-hundred-pages, the Stage 2 document has engineering, architectural costs and functional program information for the redevelopment of the hospital.
Barrett says this submission–Stage 2–is still part of Phase One of the facility’s redevelopment which pertains to an expansion of the emergency department; larger diagnostic imaging area; larger laboratory as well as expansion of the front of the hospital including reception and an improved loading and unloading docking area at the back of the hospital.
Phase one is going to cost an estimated 69-million-dollars of which the hospital foundation will raise 10-million.
Barrett says when it comes to the redevelopment, there have been false alarms in the past but he points out, “No other project has got to this stage…..so we are progressing well.”