Ontario to spend $14B building Canada's largest teaching hospital

Julia Alevato · CBC News

· Posted: Jun 25, 2025 1:00 PM EDT | Last Updated: 5 minutes ago

Ontario has announced much than $14 cardinal successful caller backing to physique the largest teaching infirmary successful Canada. 

The caller Peter Gilgan Mississauga Hospital volition triple the size and afloat regenerate the existing Mississauga Hospital to assistance supply wellness attraction to an estimated 2.2 cardinal people, the state says.

Premier Doug Ford attended the announcement Wednesday and said the caller enlargement volition conscionable the needs of a "booming" region.

"We're thrilled to beryllium supporting this task by investing. These are large numbers," Ford said.

"It'll beryllium the archetypal infirmary of its benignant close present successful Ontario."

The caller hospital, slated to unfastened successful 2033, volition go the largest teaching infirmary successful Canada and make 1 of the biggest exigency departments successful the province. 

Minister of Health Sylvia Jones says the concern is an "exciting milestone." 

"It is 1 much illustration of however our authorities is continuing to physique connected our progress, investing successful the wellness attraction needs of Ontario's increasing communities and ensuring much radical successful Mississauga, Peel Region and Etobicoke tin link to the highest modular of attraction for generations to come," she said astatine Wednesday's announcement. 

Once open, the infirmary volition bring 2,400 much health-care workers and astir 400 further doctors to the community.

The infirmary volition besides see a caller 22-storey diligent attraction operation with implicit 350 caller afloat backstage beds, bringing the full fig of beds to implicit 950.

The caller facilities volition marque it easier for radical to "get the close care, astatine the close time, astatine the close place," said the president and CEO of Trillium Health Partners.

"These caller facilities volition beryllium much than conscionable places for treatment. They volition beryllium hubs for precocious connected attraction that reaches acold beyond the infirmary walls, and they'll beryllium afloat linked to the full health-care system," said Karli Farrow astatine the announcement Wednesday. 

Farrow says the caller infirmary volition summation Trillium Health Partners' quality to supply much patients and families with services including crab care, cardiac surgeries and geriatric intelligence wellness resources.