Health-Care Investments in Manitoba

HEALTH-CARE INVESTMENTS IN MANITOBA

Since 1999, Manitoba has invested more than $1.1 billion in health capital projects and diagnostic equipment to bring Manitobans better care sooner and closer to home including:

• investing more than $135 million for the redevelopment of the Health Sciences Centre, the largest redevelopment of a health facility in Manitoba’s history;
• developing a $30-million centre of excellence for cardiac care by consolidating cardiac surgery programs at St. Boniface General Hospital, which includes a new, 15-bed cardiac intensive care unit;
• investing more than $58 million to redevelop the Brandon Regional Health Centre;
• expanding and modernizing more than 65 health-care facilities across the province including investing $33 million to rebuild the Swan Valley Health Centre, $13 million to redevelop the Gimli Hospital, $ 11.2 million to rebuild the Beausejour Hospital and Primary Health Care Centre and $6-million to renovate St. Anthony’s Hospital in The Pas;
• investing $23 million to redevelop Selkirk Mental Health Centre;
• investing $9 million to build a 35-bed personal-care home in Thompson;
• building a new $9.7-million personal-care home in The Pas;
• investing $7 million to redevelop the Westman Laboratory in Brandon;
• investing $5.2 million in a new renal health and treatment unit at Garden Hill First Nation, the first unit to be located outside a Manitoba hospital and the first in a remote community;
• opening a $1.6-million community health centre in Wabowden;
• developing a new regional acute-rehabilitation program to help people recover after joint replacement surgeries at the Riverdale Health Centre in Rivers;
• investing $3.8 million to expand outpatient chemotherapy and obstetric facilities at Steinbach’s BethesdaHospital;
• investing more than $13 million to construct a new oncology department and expand the emergency department at VictoriaGeneralHospital;
• constructing a new five-bed facility in Thompson to provide services to patients with brain injuries in northern Manitoba;
• investing more than $14-million to expand and upgrade Winnipeg’s SevenOaksGeneralHospital emergency department;

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• investing more than $800,000 in construction and operating costs to build a new emergency medical services facility to serve the municipalities of East St. Paul, West St. Paul, St. Andrews and St. Clement;

• building new community cancer centres in Pinawa, Deloraine, Neepawa, Russell and Hamiota; and
• investing in diagnostic equipment including:

-a $1-million CT scanner for ThompsonGeneralHospital;

-a $1.5-million CT scanner at the Health Sciences Centre in Winnipeg;

-a $1.6-million CT scanner and computerized radiography unit at BethesdaHospital in Steinbach;

-a $1.5-million CT scanner for SelkirkHospital;

-a $3.5-million magnetic resonance imager (MRI) for the Pan Am Clinic in Winnipeg;

-a $2.1-million capital investment in a CT scanner for PortageDistrictGeneralHospital in Portage;

-a $240,000 ultrasound for Dauphin GeneralHospital;

-an investment of more than $930,000 for a new fluoroscopy unit and surgical equipment for the Portage and DistrictHospital;

-a $7-million capital and operating investment for a MRI for the Brandon Regional Health Centre, the first MRI to be located outside of Winnipeg;

-a $3-million MRI for the Boundary Trails Health Centre in the Regional Health Authority– Central;

-a $381,000 investment in new radiology equipment at health centres in Beausejour, Pinawa and PineFalls;

-a $299,000 investment in ultrasound equipment for BethesdaHospital;

-a $312,000 investment in radiographic suites in Killarney; and

-a $302,000 investment in a radiographic system in Neepawa.