Funding to Support Burlington Joseph Brant Hospital
MPP Pierre is pleased to outline new funding for Joseph Brant Hospital in Burlington.
New Mental Health Unit:
The Ontario government is making it faster and easier for people in the Burlington region to connect to high quality, comprehensive mental health and addiction support services closer to home by building a new mental health unit at the Joseph Brant Hospital. Total funding will be confirmed through the development process.
The province’s investment will build and create a larger, state-of-the-art space for inpatient and outpatient services at Joseph Brant Hospital to ensure the hospital is better equipped to deliver timely and high-quality mental health and addictions care for more patients and their families, in a safe and comfortable setting.
Once opened, the new mental health unit will include:
- A new adult outpatient space better suited to improve clinical flow and patient care
- Improved adult psychiatric intensive care space allowing for better patient-centred care and safety
- Programs will include interdisciplinary teams of nurses, physicians, social workers, psychiatrists and recreation therapists to support complex patient care needs and provide crisis intervention, psychiatric assessment, treatment and stabilization
- Enhanced child and youth programming
- Improved infection prevention and control measures
Increased Operational Funding:
The province has provided the hospital with more than $5M to top up its base funding in this fiscal year of 2024-25.
Infrastructure Renewal Funding:
The province provided over $3M for Health Infrastructure Renewal in this fiscal year of 2024-25.