The Ontario government recently broke ground on Trillium Health Partners’ new Peter Gilgan Mississauga Hospital. The new hospital is set to become the largest teaching hospital in Canada and will create one of the biggest emergency departments in the province.

The province is investing more than $14 billion to build the new 260,128-m² (2.8-million-sf) Peter Gilgan Mississauga Hospital, tripling the size of the existing hospital to help provide health care to an estimated 2.2 million people.

Once complete, the new hospital will include a 22-storey patient care tower with more than 350 fully private beds, nine new and 14 enhanced state-of-the-art operating rooms, a 24/7 emergency department, the Shah Family Hospital for Women and Children, advanced diagnostic imaging facilities, and a pharmacy, clinical laboratory, and improved infection prevention and control measures.

Once open, the state-of-the-art hospital will bring 2,400 more health-care workers and approximately 400 additional doctors to the community.