Ontario increasing funding to local hospitals

The Ontario government is investing an additional $8.566-million this year to deliver faster, more connected care to people in Bruce, Grey and Owen Sound.

This funding is part of the province’s investment of an additional $965-million, through the 2024 budget, to help Ontario’s publicly-funded hospitals meet the needs of the communities they serve now, and for years to come.

"Increasing investments for our local hospitals in Bruce, Grey and Owen Sound is important to ensure proper supports, close to home, continue to be in place," said Huron-Bruce MPP Lisa Thompson.

The following hospital corporations will receive additional funding:
 

• South Bruce Grey Health Centre (which includes Kincardine Hospital) - $1,808,100
• Brightshores Health Systems - $5,962,500
• Hanover and District Hospital - $795,400

“This additional funding to hospital operating budgets will help keep emergency departments open, support inflationary or other wage pressures and reduce wait times for diagnostic imaging and surgical procedures, including MRI, CT, cardiac, stroke, neuro-services, orthopedics, and cataracts, so that people can connect to care faster,” said Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound MPP Rick Byers.

To continue to make it faster and easier for people to access the care they need, no matter where they live, Ontario’s $965-million investment includes funding to specifically support smaller and northern hospitals to maintain service delivery and reduce their surgical wait lists and wait times.

Through Your Health: A Plan For Connected and Convenient Care, the Ontario government is expanding access to key services to provide people with the right care, in the right place, close to come.
 
QUICK FACTS
 

• The province’s $965-million investment through Budget 2024, represents a four-per-cent increase in funding for the hospital sector for the second year in a row
• All public hospitals, regardless of size or type, will receive a minimum two-per-cent increase to maintain their base operations, with hospitals experiencing higher levels of growth to receive additional funding
• Since 2018, the Ontario government has added more than 3,500 beds across the province; over the next 10 years, Ontario’s investments will lead to nearly $50-billion in more than 50 health infrastructure projects across the province, adding 3,000 more new beds.
• To allow health system partners to address their infrastructure needs, the Ontario government is investing an additional $620-million over 10 years through the Health Infrastructure Renewal Fund and the Community Infrastructure Renewal Fund
• The government is also investing an additional $500-million over 10 years for small hospital projects and community health programs
   

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
 

• Ontario Reducing Wait Times in Emergency Departments
• Your Health: A Plan for Connected and Convenient Care