HAMILTON — Construction is underway to build a new Reactivation Care Centre in Hamilton. The new facility, in partnership with St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton (SJHH) and Hamilton Health Sciences (HHS), will provide people who no longer require hospital care with restorative and specialty care, ensuring they are receiving the right care, in the right place.
“Our government is making historic investments in Ontario’s health care system to expand access to care and make it faster and easier for people to connect to the care they need, closer to home,” said Sylvia Jones, Deputy Premier and Minister of Health. “The new Reactivation Care Centre will ensure more patients and their families in the Hamilton area are connected to the care and support they need, for years to come.”
The province will invest more than $16 million to build the new Reactivation Care Centre in Hamilton. Once opened, the new 28,000 square-feet centre will include 57 transitional care beds across three units to connect people to a variety of reactivation care needs, including complex care, dementia care services and behavioural support services. The new facility will also have four rooms with dialysis services, allowing more patients to access convenient, on-site hemodialysis treatment.
“This Reactivation Care Centre offers a unique opportunity to provide a continuity of care to patients who need more time to recover, while freeing up much-needed space in our hospital to provide acute care to more patients, faster,” said Mike Heenan, President, St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton. “We are so grateful to the Province for recognizing this need and for their investment into our community.”
Reactivation care is an innovative model of care that provides people with a seamless transition from hospital to their community care providers when they no longer require hospital care. 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.
Through Your Health: A Plan For Connected and Convenient Care, Ontario is making it easier and faster for people of all ages to connect to the care they need, where and 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.