Dale Kenney, Providence Care President & CEO, and Cathy Dunne, former CEO, consider the new hospital planned for King Street West

Redevelopment – Plans for a new Providence Care hospital    

Our plan is to bring together the programs from our St. Mary’s of the Lake hospital and Mental Health Services site into a brand new hospital on King Street West. 

The provincial government has awarded Providence Care a planning grant and we have submitted plans and are waiting for our redevelopment project to be approved and added to the province’s five-year building plan.

With the help of University Hospitals Kingston Foundation, we will need to raise a portion of the money required to build the new hospital, as well as money to cover the cost of equipment. 

Redevelopment at Providence Care is part of the larger redevelopment plan for all three Kingston hospitals – including expansion at KGH and Hotel Dieu. For more information, visit  http://www.kingstonhospitals.ca/ and the University Hospitals Kingston Foundation.

In the new Providence Care hospital… 

·          Clients of mental health services will access treatment in the same hospital as patients needing other types of care – thereby reducing the stigma often associated with mental illness

·          Inpatient units will be designed with dignity and privacy in mind

·          The design of the new hospital will be in line with modern approaches to health care: wheelchair-accessible hallways, bright living spaces and areas for group activities and gatherings

·          Geriatric medicine programs – including the day hospital – will be located on the ground floor of the new hospital, meaning easier access for our older patients

·          New, efficient rehabilitation space will mean more people can benefit from occupational and physical therapy after an accident, an injury or surgery

·          There will be improved learning and research facilities – classrooms and all-purpose rooms to allow us to offer more educational opportunities to our staff and community partners, as well as maintaining our role as a teaching hospital