SCARBOROUGH — The Ontario government is celebrating the start of construction of Scarborough Health Network’s new emergency department at Centenary Hospital, a major milestone that will connect more patients and families to faster, more convenient, high-quality emergency care closer to home. Supported by a provincial investment of more than $82 million, the new state-of-the-art emergency department will be more than 36,000 square feet larger than the hospital’s existing emergency department, expanding capacity to meet the needs of Scarborough’s growing population. The project will support approximately 400 good-paying jobs in the region and is part of the government’s plan to protect Ontario’s health-care system by investing $64 billion in more than 50 major hospital projects across the province over the next 10 years.
“Our government is making historic investments to protect Ontario’s health-care system, ensuring that more people in Scarborough can connect to the care they need, where and when they need it,” said Sylvia Jones, Deputy Premier and Minister of Health. “With construction starting on Centenary Hospital’s new and expanded emergency department, we are taking an important step forward in connecting more people and their families in Scarborough to the world-class emergency care they need and deserve, for generations to come.”
The new state-of-the-art emergency department will reduce wait times, streamline care and deliver world-class infrastructure to better support the needs of Scarborough’s growing population. This expansion will address current and future demand for emergency services, ease congestion, improve patient and staff flow and replace aged infrastructure. This will provide Scarborough Health Network with the additional capacity it needs to better care for the more than 200,000 patients it receives every year in its three emergency departments. The project is expected to support approximately 400 good-paying jobs for the surrounding community, including more than 300 jobs in construction.
To connect more people in the region to life-sustaining renal care closer to home, Ontario has also invested nearly $15 million to add
27 new hemodialysis stations at Scarborough Health Network, including 21 at Centenary Hospital. These new stations, which are all now fully operational, will expand Scarborough Health Network’s Regional Nephrology Program, enabling the hospital to address the high demand for dialysis services and meet the ongoing needs of patients and their families in Scarborough now and for years to come.
Through
Your Health: A Plan for Connected and Convenient Care, the Ontario government continues to take bold and decisive action to expand and modernize Ontario’s hospitals, making it faster and easier for people of all ages to connect to the high-quality care they need, where and when they need it.
Quick Facts- Scarborough Health Network operates three full-service hospitals and several community-based locations, offering more than 850,000 people essential services throughout the eastern Greater Toronto Area, including emergency, diagnostic imaging, surgery and rehabilitation care.
- Over the next 10 years, Ontario is investing approximately $64 billion in major health infrastructure. This is part of the government’s plan to get shovels in the ground on more than 50 major hospital projects across the province, which will deliver approximately 3,000 new hospital beds to enhance access to quality care and build a connected, people-first health-care system.
- The Ontario government is investing over $281 million in 2026-27 to support critical infrastructure upgrades and repairs at 126 hospitals and 67 community health-care facilities across the province, a 9.4 per cent increase from the previous year.
- In 2026-27, Scarborough Health Network is receiving over $7.2 million through the Health Infrastructure Renewal Fund, to support the critical infrastructure needs of its hospitals.
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