Hospital coming to Kingston’s west end
Up to 95 acres of undeveloped municipal land in Kingston’s west end is being re-envisioned as the site of a future hospital. Kingston Health Sciences Centre (KHSC) has been developing plans for the new complex to meet current and long-term regional health care needs.
KHSC explored the possibility of redeveloping and expanding its current Kingston General and Hotel Dieu sites, but that option was not feasible, considering the region’s growing need for increasingly complex acute care services, and the structural obstacles on the existing sites.
“Kingston Health Sciences Centre has steadily grown since our 2017 integration,” stated David Pichora, president and CEO. We are fortunate to be able to provide more specialized and tertiary care services to the growing population of Kingston and Southeastern Ontario. Consequently, we have outgrown our current facilities – Canada’s two oldest hospitals, which are increasingly more expensive to maintain.”
The site is located in the Clogg’s Road Business Park Area near Highway 401. KHSC identified this site as a strategic location to provide easier and faster regional hospital access, as well as opportunities for future expansion.
KHSC is developing a master site plan for this property as directed by the Ministry. The timeline for construction is still unknown as development depends on the confirmation and timing of Ministry funding.
Community partners, including the City, are committed to working with KHSC to identify opportunities for services and businesses that could complement the future complex. The City is comprehensively reviewing long-term growth and land use city-wide through the official plan and integrated mobility plan, including the location of a new hospital on this identified site.
City staff will work on securing employment lands in other parts of the city to replace the inventory of land being committed for hospital development.
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