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Royal Victoria Regional Health Centre

Location:
Barrie
Project Type:
BF - Build Finance
Infrastructure Type:
Health Care
Contract Price:
$258.5 million
Estimated Value for Money:
$44.1 million

About the Project

  • Royal Victoria Regional Health Centre's Phase 1 Expansion Project doubled the size of the previous facility and included the addition of the Simcoe Muskoka Regional Cancer Centre.
  • This new cancer centre provides comprehensive care to more than 2,000 newly diagnosed cancer patients each year throughout Simcoe County and the District of Muskoka.

Status:

  • Request for Qualifications
    Oct 25, 2007
  • Short-list Bidders Selected
    Feb 11, 2008
  • Request for Proposals
    Jun 16, 2008
  • Winning Bidder Selected
    Feb 05, 2009
  • Construction Begins
    Feb 19, 2009
  • Construction Ends
    Aug 23, 2013

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Winning Bidder

Vanbots, with financing arranged by Banco Espirito Santo de Investimento SA; National Australia Bank Limited; Norddeutsche Landesbank Gironzentrale; Bank of Montreal; CIT Financial Ltd.; National Bank of Canada Inc.; and Toronto Dominion Bank

Features

  • Capacity for 101 additional inpatient beds
  • An Emergency Department that is triple in size with a trauma unit, isolation ward and mental health crisis team.
  • An expanded laboratory
  • A Diagnostic Imaging Department that is double in size, increasing patient flow and privacy
  • Two additional operating rooms that are larger than previous suites for complex surgeries
  • A dedicated seven-bed Coronary Care Unit for critically ill cardiac patients

Community And Green Benefits

  • The Simcoe Muskoka Regional Cancer Centre logged more than 60,000 patient visits in its first year, providing residents of Simcoe and Muskoka with close-to-home access to advanced cancer care.
  • Expansion space for two future patient care units to assist the Royal Victoria Hospital in continuing to meet the health care needs of a growing and aging community.

Economic Benefits

  • At the height of construction approximately 300 workers were on site every day, the majority of whom were from the Barrie area.

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