Mackenzie Vaughan Hospital

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Mackenzie Vaughan Hospital
Mackenzie Health
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Geography
Location Vaughan, York Region, Ontario, Canada
Coordinates 43°50′59″N79°32′31″W / 43.84966°N 79.54200°W / 43.84966; -79.54200 Coordinates: 43°50′59″N79°32′31″W / 43.84966°N 79.54200°W / 43.84966; -79.54200
Organization
Care system Public Medicare (Canada) (OHIP)
Funding Non-profit hospital
Hospital type General
Services
Emergency department Yes
Beds342
History
Construction started2016
Links
Website mackenziehealth.ca/mvh/
Lists Hospitals in Canada

The Mackenzie Vaughan Hospital is a hospital under construction in Vaughan, Ontario, Canada, expected to be completed in late 2020. [1] It will be operated by Mackenzie Health, which also operates Mackenzie Richmond Hill Hospital.

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The hospital is being built on a 25-hectare property on the northwest corner of Jane Street and Major Mackenzie Drive, adjacent to Canada's Wonderland. [2] Its construction will cost about C$ 1.2 billion. [3]

Background

On 16 January 2004, the city of Vaughan established the Vaughan Health Care Foundation (VHCF), an independent non-profit organization with primary task to "bring a hospital and ancillary services" to Vaughan. [4] Its chairman was Michael di Biase. [4] The VHCF was required to raise about $200 million to fund the city's share of the projected $1.3 billion construction costs and for acquisition of equipment. [4] Michael DeGasperis later became chairman of the board, and in November 2007 he and others established the privately owned Vaughan Health Campus of Care (VHCC). [5] [4] DeGasperis became chairman of VHCC, and board member and insurance businessman Sam Ciccolini became chairman of VHCF. [4]

The group campaigned to build a hospital in Vaughan, and with local community and political support, in 2007 the Government of Ontario gave official approval to build a hospital in Vaughan, [6] and in October 2008 it directed the Central LHIN (the regional Local Health Integration Network) to create the master plan for development of the hospital. [7] At this time, construction of the hospital was expected to start in 2011. [4]

Search for a suitable site began in 2007, [7] and VHCC approached landowners of at least nine sites in Vaughan to evaluate its suitability to build a hospital and other health care services. [4] A 2008 report by Deloitte Consulting commissioned by the Central LHIN stated that the proposed hospital should be located on the Highway 400 corridor. [7] In 2009, VHCC negotiated a deal with Cedar Fair to acquire the northern portion of land on the Canada's Wonderland campus. [8] The city of Vaughan paid C$ 60 million for 82 acres. [8]

Land use dispute

Development of the land was to be administered by VHCC. [8] In 2011, the Government of Ontario stated that Mackenzie Health would build the hospital, [6] The government encouraged the foundations to merge, to which the foundations were initially amenable, [4] but ultimately prompted a dispute between VHCC, Mackenzie Health, and the City of Vaughan. [9] The focus of the dispute was the area of the acquired land allocated for the hospital, and the development of the remaining portion. [10] A VHCC letter to the city stated that the agreement they had signed stipulated 40 acres of the 82 acquired were to be allocated to the hospital; the Mackenzie Health CEO stated that 50 acres would be necessary to build the hospital and for future expansion, and that the city would provide the requested 50 acres. [9]

On 16 March 2011, Minister of State in the federal cabinet Gary Goodyear announced that VHCC had been awarded a C$ 10 million grant from the Economic Development Agency. [11] Greg Sorbara stated that this was a "reward for getting Julian Fantino elected" in the November 2010 by-election for the federal electoral district of Vaughan. [11] DeGasperis and Sam Ciccolini, members of the VHCC board of directors, were fundraising co-chairs for Fantino's election campaign. [11] The grant prompted a complaint to the Auditor General of Canada, and a press release by the CEO of Mackenzie Health stating that grant funds were not "being directly contributed from the federal government for the planning and/or construction of the hospital". [11] The grant was also criticized for the perceived impropriety of the federal government funding projects of provincial jurisdiction (health care). [12] In March 2012, a letter from VHCC to the Economic Development Agency stated that VHCC could not secure the land transfer and the $20 million contribution from the city of Vaughan, and thus the project was stalled. [4] The Economic Development Agency deallocated the remaining $8.7 million of its contribution. [13] VHCC had spent the allocated funds for a Deloitte and Touche report, and consultant fees. [14]

In May 2012, after Mackenzie Health announced its intention to establish its own fundraising foundation, VHCC abandoned its fundraising operations and affiliation with the project. [4] The $12.3 raised by VHCF was allocated to the Vaughan Hospital Building and Equipment Trust Fund. [4] In September 2012, VHCC removed its signage from the hospital site. [4]

In a September 2013 letter to the city of Vaughan, DeGasperis stated that VHCC could claim damages if more than 40 acres of the land was allocated for the hospital. [9] From 2011 to 2015, DeGasperis challenged city decisions involving that land. [8] In a 2014 interview, DeGasperis stated that VHCC considered Mackenzie Health's request as "trying anything to get this extra 10 acres of land under their control" for development of ancillary health care services, which was the mandate of VHCC for the non-core hospital lands. [5]

Resident property taxpayers complained that development of the site acquired with tax revenues should not be controlled by a private developer. [9]

In April 2015, Mackenzie Health and the city of Vaughan signed a lease deal for a nominal charge of C$ 2. [8] The 99-year lease granted the hospital corporation operated by Mackenzie Health 40 acres of land for development of the hospital, 10 acres for future expansion, and a right to determine the type of development that may occur on another 12 acres. [8] An additional condition of the deal was to terminate the agreement with Vaughan Health Campus of Care. [15]

On 3 June 2015, VHCC and the city of Vaughan signed an agreement by which VHCC abandoned claims on 62 acres of the site, and VHCC and the city would jointly develop 15 acres of the remaining land for ancillary health care services. [10]

The agreement terminated the dispute, which had stalled the development of the hospital by four years. [10]

Funding

The project is funded by various sources. The land acquired from Canada's Wonderland were purchased via an C$ 80 million debenture from the city of Vaughan, [2] [16] which implemented a property tax surcharge in 2009 to recoup the costs. [17] The surcharge will be assessed until 2022. [2] By 2008, approximately $4 million had been raised via a $200 voluntary developer levy on each newly constructed house in Vaughan. [18]

The Regional Municipality of York allocated C$ 117 million for the project, and the Government of Ontario C$ 58million for planning, design, and tendering. [17] [19] About 90% of the construction costs will be borne by the Government of Ontario, and the remainder will be funded from donations from private sources, including residents and businesses. The community fundraising project, named "Exceptional Care Belongs Here" led by Greg Sorbara (who had donated C$ 5 million himself), [20] [21] has a goal to raise C$ 250 million, [2] and will fund purchase of the furnishings and equipment, in addition to the 10% portion of the construction costs. [22] [17] The project received a C$ 10 million donation from Magna International in October 2015, [22] and C$ 10 million from Vaughan businessman Vic De Zen and his wife Angelina in September 2016. [23] In August 2017, the De Gasperis and Muzzo families jointly donated C$ 15 million; the hospital's west wing will be named the De Gasperis-Muzzo Tower in recognition of the families' contributions. [24] In December 2017, Carlo Baldassarra and family donated $5 million. [25] Early fundraising efforts were conducted by Vaughan Health Care Foundation, a charitable sister company of VHCC established in 2004; [26] it raised C$ 9 million, which DeGasperis said is in an irrevocable trust fund for the hospital, but which will not be given to the Mackenzie Health Foundation. [5] In June 2019, the Cortellucci family made the largest single donation of C$ 40 million, bringing the total amount raised to more than $160 million as part of the "Exceptional Care Belongs Here" campaign. [27]

In addition to direct donations, community fundraising is accomplished with events, such as the "Ride for Health" [28] and annual fun runs including "Run for Vaughan" and "Richview Manor Strides for Stroke 5K Run/Walk. [29] [30]

Development

Site plan for the hospital lands between Highway 400 (left), Jane Street (right), and Major Mackenzie Drive (bottom). The Mackenzie Vaughan Hospital is on 'block 2' at the right, blocks 1, 4, 5 and 7 (in orange) are for privately-owned ancillary health-care service businesses, and blocks 8 and 9 (in light blue) are stormwater runoff ponds. The grey blocks are parking lots. Visible at the bottom is the planned transit terminal. Site plan of the Mackenzie Vaughan Hospital.jpg
Site plan for the hospital lands between Highway 400 (left), Jane Street (right), and Major Mackenzie Drive (bottom). The Mackenzie Vaughan Hospital is on 'block 2' at the right, blocks 1, 4, 5 and 7 (in orange) are for privately-owned ancillary health-care service businesses, and blocks 8 and 9 (in light blue) are stormwater runoff ponds. The grey blocks are parking lots. Visible at the bottom is the planned transit terminal.

In March 2014, Infrastructure Ontario and Mackenzie Health began a request for qualification for the construction project, stating that the primary criteria were "construction capability, experience and financial capacity to deliver a project of this size and scope". [31] This resulted in three consortia being shortlisted as bidders for the project. [31] At a news conference held on 29 June 2015, Vaughan councillors and provincial ministers announced that the request for proposals had been initiated, requesting bid submissions from the shortlisted consortia. [2] Two final bids, from Hospital Infrastructure Partners and Plenary Health, will be evaluated, and one chosen to build the hospital starting in mid 2016. [22] The $1.3 billion contract was awarded to the Plenary Health bid in 2016, [3] consisting of developer Plenary Group Canada, architecture firm Stantec Architects, planning and design company RTKL, design-build and construction management company PCL Constructors, facility management company Johnson Controls Canada, and RBC Capital Markets. [32]

In 2014, the city of Vaughan spent C$ 27 million for two phases of development, the first for site earthworks and site access modifications to Canada's Wonderland, the second for site stormwater management, sanitary works, water servicing, storm works, and roadworks on Jane Street. [33]

In late 2015, the city of Vaughan refined details to enter into a memorandum of understanding with Mackenzie Health for the construction and operation of a pedestrian walkway from Mackenzie Vaughan Hospital to a transit terminal being developed on the south side of Major Mackenzie Drive, adjacent to Canada's Wonderland. [34] It will be built on the grade separated eastern underpass connecting the hospital lands to Canada's Wonderland, and will be a dedicated accessible pedestrian and cycling walkway. [35] [36] The transit terminal will be used for services by York Region Transit (including Viva Silver), GO Transit, and other operators. [19]

A groundbreaking ceremony was held on 25 October 2016 to launch construction of the hospital. [37]

Services

The hospital will have 342 beds, [38] 1,800 full-time staff, and 100 specialist physicians. [20] Approximately 90% of beds will be in single-occupancy rooms. [37] The hospital is expected to handle 140,000 medical imaging exams, 6,300 surgeries, 3,100 births, and 1,800 urgent care pediatric visits annually. [3]

The 35,000 square feet (3,300 m2) emergency department, named Magna Emergency in honour of the donation by Magna International, has a capacity of about 75,000 annual visits. [22]

Other services include: [31]

In November 2015, Mackenzie Health signed an 18-year managed equipment services contract with Philips, which will provide room design, diagnostics, alarm management, predictive analytics, and other medical technology services for Mackenzie Vaughan Hospital and Mackenzie Richmond Hill Hospital. [39] The managed services contract includes "procurement, installation, systems integration, maintenance and timely updates". [40]

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ Kelly 2018.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 Javed 2015c.
  3. 1 2 3 Kelly 2016.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Stephenson 2012.
  5. 1 2 3 Javed 2014.
  6. 1 2 Javed 2015a.
  7. 1 2 3 Dobranowski 2009.
  8. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Martin-Robbins 2015a.
  9. 1 2 3 4 Grewal 2013a.
  10. 1 2 3 Martin-Robbins 2015b.
  11. 1 2 3 4 Nicol & Seglins 2011.
  12. ↑ McMahon 2011.
  13. ↑ Vaughan Health Campus of Care.
  14. ↑ O'Toole 2012.
  15. ↑ Javed 2015b.
  16. ↑ City of Vaughan 2014, p. 2.
  17. 1 2 3 Mackenzie Health.
  18. ↑ Gombu 2008, p. A7.
  19. 1 2 City of Vaughan 2015, p. 3.
  20. 1 2 Kelly 2015.
  21. ↑ "Inspiring donations kick start campaign". mackenziehealth.ca.
  22. 1 2 3 4 Martin-Robbins 2016.
  23. ↑ Edmonton Journal 2016.
  24. ↑ "Muzzo, De Gasperis families make multi-million dollar hospital donation". thestar.com. 17 August 2017.
  25. ↑ "CARLO AND ANGELA BALDASSARRA FAMILY PLEDGES $5M TO NEW MACKENZIE VAUGHAN HOSPITAL". mackenziehealthfoundation.ca. 12 December 2017.
  26. ↑ Grewal 2013b.
  27. ↑ "CORTELLUCCI FAMILY DONATES $40 MILLION TO NEW MACKENZIE VAUGHAN HOSPITAL". mackenziehealthfoundation.ca. June 13, 2019.
  28. ↑ Richmond Hill Liberal & March 2016.
  29. ↑ Hayakawa 2015.
  30. ↑ Beck 2015.
  31. 1 2 3 Canada Newswire 2014.
  32. ↑ Martin-Robbins 2014.
  33. ↑ City of Vaughan 2014, p. 5.
  34. ↑ City of Vaughan 2015, p. 1.
  35. ↑ City of Vaughan 2015, p. 2.
  36. ↑ City of Vaughan 2015, p. 4.
  37. 1 2 ConstructConnect 2016.
  38. ↑ Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care 2016.
  39. ↑ Hamilton 2015.
  40. ↑ Philips 2015.

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