We’ve come a long way.
Our buildings haven’t.
It’s time to rebuild.
Our patients and teams deserve better
Imagine health care in the early 1900s. Medicine has come a long way since then, but some of our buildings still echo the distant past.
In 2012 we transformed sections of Juravinski Hospital into state-of-the-art spaces. Our mission isn’t complete. We need to propel the remaining nearly 100-year-old buildings into the 21st century, ensuring our patients and teams have the very best for decades to come.
The redevelopment of Juravinski Hospital is the single-largest health infrastructure investment in our organization’s history and will also make Juravinski Hospital the largest acute inpatient hospital in our region. The support of our provincial and municipal governments, our workforce, and our community is critical.
We need to be able to accommodate our modern and evolving technology, patient needs, and increasing demand, so our expert staff can provide you and your loved ones with the best possible care.
Highlights of the new facility
Single-patient rooms
Private washrooms
More room for walkers, wheelchairs, beds and other equipment
Escarpment views
Larger hallways, elevators and common areas
Space for loved ones to visit
Modern ventilation, heating and air-conditioning systems
Meeting modern infection prevention and control standards
100+
Additional inpatient rooms
100%
single-patient rooms
70%
More space for care
1932
Year the oldest current wing opened
Our needs are urgent
More room
We need more rooms – and bigger rooms – to care for more patients and leave space for modern amenities and equipment. Right now, we have patients in rooms like former lounges and offices, and we still have trouble meeting the demand for care. Our infrastructure renewal will include 100+ new beds and provide 70 per cent more space for care.
Safe, accessible spaces
Infection control and accessibility are a challenge. We now care for four patients per room, but private patient rooms are the gold standard for infection prevention and control. We can’t fit walkers, wheelchairs and stretchers in many of our patient areas, plus we need more washrooms — and larger washrooms — to accommodate mobility devices and offer privacy to patients.
21st century buildings
Like many health-care facilities, the Juravinski Hospital and Cancer Centre is a collection of several buildings joined together by hallways and tunnels. One of the oldest wings was built in 1932. We have made all the retrofits we can but the time has come to rebuild.
Enhanced comfort
In our new building, there will be more room for patient care and accessible spaces like bigger elevators, washrooms, and wider hallways. Visitors will have more space in patient rooms, plus there will be more shared areas overall like patient lounges. A new building will include modern HVAC and air filtration systems creating a more comfortable and safe environment for patients, families and staff.
Room to grow
As our population grows and ages, there will be more strain on our health care system. A new hospital will allow us to better serve our catchment area of 2.5 million people and live up to modern standards that our patients expect and deserve. Along with patient benefits, there are environmental benefits and reduced costs to operating a newer building.
Attracting excellence
Our staff love what they do and provide high quality care with the resources they have. But they’ve had to adapt and make do for years. A new hospital will attract new talent to care for the increasing number of patients, provide more space for health care innovation, and allow us to strengthen research and learning as well as programs such as cancer care, medicine, rehabilitation, critical care, and surgery.
