New investments will ensure local families have access to high-quality health care
Steve Clark, MPP for Leeds-Grenville-Thousand Islands and Rideau Lakes, announced that the following local hospitals will receive additional operating funding this fiscal year:
-Brockville General Hospital will receive an additional $3.6 million starting in 2022/23, which represents an increase of 4.8% percent to funding last fiscal year
-Perth and Smiths Falls District Hospital will receive an additional $1.3 million starting in 2022/23, which represents an increase of 2.8 percent to funding last fiscal year
-Kemptville District Hospital will receive an additional $300,000 starting in 2022/23, which represents an increase of 2% to funding last fiscal year
This is part of the Ontario government’s $827 million additional investment to hospitals across the Province, representing a four per cent increase over last year. This will ensure that all publicly funded hospitals receive a minimum two per cent increase to their operating budgets to help them better meet patient needs, while building a stronger, more resilient health care system.
“Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, our local hospitals have gone above and beyond to provide exceptional care to patients and families in Leeds-Grenville,” said MPP Clark. “This new investment is just one way Ontario is supporting high-quality and timely access to health care to ensure we have the capacity to stay open.”
Over the last four years, the Ontario government has made significant investments in Ontario’s hospitals as part of its plan to build a stronger, more resilient health care system that is better able to respond to crisis. This includes overall sector increases four years in a row, representing a total provincial investment of $2.5 billion since 2019.
“Ontario’s hospitals have been unwavering in their commitment to protect the health and wellbeing of Ontarians, and our government is committed to ensuring that they have the resources needed to recover from the pandemic and meet the ongoing needs of the communities they serve,” said Christine Elliott, Deputy Premier and Minister of Health. “By increasing investments in hospitals provincewide, our government is helping to ensure that patients have access to the high-quality care they need, when and where they need it.”
In addition, as part of its plan to stay open, the government is supporting the creation of 10 new patient beds and one new ICU bed at Brockville General Hospital, and is supporting the creation of 8 new patient beds at Perth & Smiths Falls District Hospital. These new beds are part of a capital plan expansion with more than 50 major projects that will add 3,000 new beds over 10 years and support the continuation of over 3,100 acute and post-acute beds in hospitals and alternate health care facilities, and hundreds of new adult, paediatric and neonatal critical care beds. Since the outset of the pandemic, the government has added 777 more intensive-care unit hospital beds with the capacity to now handle 2,448 critical care patients.
