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(February 19, 2025)<\/p>\n

By: Ryan Rumbolt, In Brampton<\/p>\n

City council is calling on the province to commit to building a third hospital and ease Brampton\u2019s \u201csignificantly strained\u201d health care system and now that there\u2019s a landowner on board.<\/p>\n

Brampton Civic Hospital is the city\u2019s only full-service health care facility, and even the promised Peel Memorial upgrades won\u2019t meet growing health care demands according to council.<\/p>\n

And with other comparable cities and regions like Hamilton, London and Waterloo which all have three hospitals, council is calling on whichever party wins the upcoming election to bring another facility to Brampton saying the city needs at least 660 more hospital beds.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve now found a really good land owner that wants to be a part of it,\u201d Palleschi said in city council chambers on Wednesday before putting forward a motion asking the province for a funding grant for a third hospital.<\/p>\n

The motion was seconded by Mayor Patrick Brown and passed unanimously by council, with Palleschi saying the call for a funding pledge is a \u201cmore formal\u201d ask following years of planning.<\/p>\n

The provincial average for hospital beds is 220 per 100,000 residents, while in Brampton that number is less than half at 96, Palleschi said. And with an anticipated population boom of between 300,000 to 400,000 new residents in coming years due to the province\u2019s housing targets, Brampton will need \u201ca proportional increase in health care services.\u201d<\/p>\n

Palleschi said securing a funding grant from the province \u201cwould send a strong signal\u201d to Bramptonians \u201cthat their health care needs are a priority.\u201d<\/p>\n

Peel Memorial, which is set to be upgraded with a new 24-hour Emergency Department<\/a><\/span>\u00a0that will cost around $1 billion. Premier Doug Ford and the Conservative government have pledged over $21 million to the project while the city\u2019s portion of the Peel Memorial upgrades and a new cancer centre coming to Brampton Civic Hospital will cost some $125 million.<\/p>\n

The upgrade plans include the new 24-hour Emergency Department replacing the existing Urgent Care Centre, 250 inpatient beds with space for more in the future, rehabilitation and continuing care services, enhanced mental health and addictions services, and additional services for seniors.<\/p>\n

Health care advocacy groups like the Ontario Health Coalition have been calling out what they call \u201challway health care\u201d in Brampton.<\/p>\n

Mayor Brown has repeatedly called on the province to greenlight funding for a third full-service hospital, saying the Peel Memorial upgrades are a good step but not a silver bullet to solving Brampton\u2019s health care concerns.<\/p>\n

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