New hospital in Grimsby, Ont., to open in October, Hamilton Health Sciences says

Justin Chandler · CBC News

· Posted: May 08, 2025 10:29 AM EDT | Last Updated: 10 hours ago

A caller infirmary successful Grimsby, Ont., volition unfastened successful October, Hamilton Health Sciences says.

Construction of the caller facility, which began successful 2022, is astir 2 months distant from "substantial completion," the infirmary web said successful a Wednesday quality release. It's acceptable to unfastened "on oregon around" Oct. 27.

Hamilton Health Sciences (HHS) volition "get the keys" to the caller installation and tin statesman last preparations to unfastened successful precocious July, it said. Those volition see moving instrumentality and supplies into the gathering and grooming workers. The infirmary volition unfastened successful phases with guidance from the province's Ministry of Health.

EllisDon is the contractor moving connected the $224-million facility, which volition beryllium astir 80 per cent larger than the existing 1 it's replacing, HHS said. That hospital was built successful 1946. 

According to the HHS website, the caller installation has been constructed down the aged one, which volition beryllium decommissioned erstwhile the caller 1 is up and running.

The aged infirmary could "no longer conscionable the demands of our increasing region," HHS said connected its website. 

Many Niagara residents person expressed a tendency for better, section entree to wellness care. During the provincial election, the Progressive Conservative enactment told CBC Hamilton the authorities had invested $85 cardinal successful wellness attraction "this twelvemonth alone," including successful implicit 50 infirmary redevelopment projects, specified arsenic the 1 successful Grimsby and a caller Niagara Falls hospital. 

Those projects adhd "nearly 600 caller beds crossed the region," they said.