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$15 Million for North Bay Regional Health Centre

New 40-bed satellite site at Cartier Street

NORTH BAY – Vic Fedeli, MPP for Nipissing is pleased to announce that the Ontario government is making it faster and easier for people in North Bay to connect to healthcare by investing in a new 40-bed Alternate Hospital Facility, adding 16 new beds. The North Bay Regional Health Centre (NBRHC) will open a newly-renovated facility located at 111 Cartier Street, at a cost of $9.8 million. The province will be investing $7.3 million to support this expansion.

In addition, the NBRHC will also be receiving $6.1 million in one-time funding. This funding assists with the Alternate Level of Care transition as well as the Alternate Hospital Facility transition. This investment will continue to improve access, expand capacity, and decrease wait times, better supporting the needs of families.

“Our government has heard the call to invest in our healthcare system to support our ageing population, and today we are delivering millions here in Nipissing,” said MPP Vic Fedeli. “These additional beds will increase capacity and improve access to care, ensuring even more people in the North Bay region are provided with the right care, in the right place.”

NBRHC President and CEO Paul Heinrich says the new site and additional beds will improve access to care for patients, while also relieving some of the ongoing bed pressures facing the hospital. “Patient flow has a daily impact on patients seeking care, those waiting to be discharged, and our teams trying to provide the care patients need. Today’s announcement will help ensure timely access to appropriate care for patients awaiting long-term care placement.”

North Bay Regional Health Centre’s Cartier Site is an Alternate Hospital Facility (AHF) that provides people who no longer require hospital care with specialized services as they transition from a hospital to a long-term care home, retirement home or other post-acute services. This ensures more hospital beds are there for those who need it most, while decreasing wait times to ensure more people, no matter where they are in their care journey, are receiving the care they need.

As part of Your Health: A Plan for Connected and Convenient Care, the Ontario government is making it easier and faster, for people of all ages, to connect to the care they need, when they need it. This includes getting shovels in the ground for over 50 hospital developments across the province that will add an additional 3,000 new hospital beds over the next 10 years.

QUICK FACTS

• These additional beds will bring North Bay Regional Health Centre’s number of beds to supply 489, ensuring the hospital can continue to provide the region with additional capacity to connect more people in Northeastern Ontario to timely and appropriate care, for years to come.
• North Bay Regional Health Centre is one of four major acute care hospitals serving northeast Ontario, providing patients with numerous outpatient and outreach services in North Bay and throughout the northeast region.
• NBRHC provides acute care services to North Bay and its surrounding communities and serves as the district referral centre providing specialist services for smaller communities in the area, as well as delivers specialized mental health services for all of northeast Ontario.
• Over the next 10 years, Ontario’s investments will lead to nearly $50 billion in health infrastructure across the province, building 3,000 new beds in addition to over 3,500 critical care, acute and post-acute beds our government has added since 2020.
• The Ontario government is investing more than $228 million this year to support critical infrastructure upgrades and repairs at 129 hospitals and 58 community health care facilities across the province, a 10 per cent increase from last year.