The facility is being built in partnership with St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton and Hamilton Health Sciences. Pictured: Health Minister Sylvia Jones. Photo Credit: Sylvia Jones/X.
The Government of Ontario recently announced that construction is underway for a new Reactivation Care Centre in Hamilton thanks to a $16.7 million investment from the province.
The government says that reactivation care “is an innovative model of care that provides people with a seamless transition from hospital to their community care providers when they no longer require hospital care.”
The facility is being built in partnership with St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton and Hamilton Health Sciences and will be located on unused floors at St. Joseph’s Villa on Governors Road in Dundas.
The new 28,000 square-foot centre is expected to open in spring 2026 and will include 57 transitional care beds across three units including complex care, dementia care services, and behavioural support services.
The centre will also have four rooms with dialysis services, which will allow for on-site hemodialysis treatment.
Sylvia Jones, Deputy Premier and Minister of Health, said, “The new Reactivation Care Centre will ensure more patients and their families in the Hamilton area are connected to the care and support they need, for years to come.”
Mike Heenan, President of St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton, added, “This Reactivation Care Centre offers a unique opportunity to provide a continuity of care to patients who need more time to recover, while freeing up much-needed space in our hospital to provide acute care to more patients, faster.”
Even Hamilton’s Mayor Andrea Horwath, who formerly was the Leader of the Ontario NDP and regularly criticized the Ford government, said that she was “absolutely thrilled” with the announcement.
“Today’s ground-breaking of the Reactivation Care facility at St. Joseph’s Villa is a much appreciated investment in our city. I want to thank the Provincial government, Deputy Premier and Minister of Health Sylvia Jones, and Premier Ford for their support,” Horwath said.
Additionally, local Member of Provincial Parliament (MPP) Neil Lumsden, who represents Hamilton East-Stoney Creek, called it “another significant milestone in our government’s work to build more infrastructure, and strengthen Hamilton’s health care network.”
Indeed, in the Hamilton region, the Government of Ontario is also working on a psychiatric emergency service redevelopment at St. Joseph’s Healthcare, an emergency department expansion at the Hamilton General Hospital, and the redevelopment of the West Lincoln Memorial Hospital.
The Ontario government is investing more than $228 million this year for upgrades and repairs at 129 hospitals and 58 community health care facilities across the province, which is a 10 per cent increase from 2023.
Over the next 10 years, the province says that their investments “will lead to nearly $50 billion in health infrastructure across the province, adding an additional 3,000 new hospital beds over the next 10 years.”
The government has already added 3,500 beds since 2020.
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