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MISSISSAUGA — The massive new Peter Gilgan Mississauga Hospital project reached a new milestone recently with politicians and various representatives marking its official groundbreaking.

The Province of Ontario is spending more than $14 billion to build the new 2.8-million-square-foot hospital, tripling the size of the existing Mississauga hospital, states a release. The new space will also become the largest teaching hospital in Canada, will create one of the biggest emergency departments in the province and will include the Shah Family Hospital for Women and Children.

Once completed, the new hospital will include:

• A new 22-storey patient care tower with over 350 new fully private beds, bringing the total number of beds to over 950.
• Nine new and 14 enhanced operating rooms.
• A 24-7 emergency department that will become one of the largest in the province.
• The Shah Family Hospital for Women and Children, which will span over 200,000 square feet and include one of the largest Neonatal Intensive Care Units in the province.
• Advanced diagnostic imaging facilities.
• A new pharmacy, clinical laboratory and improved infection prevention and control measures.

Infrastructure Ontario and Trillium Health Partners previously announced they had signed a development agreement with a project team led by EllisDon and PCL to prepare design and development plans for the redevelopment project.

The ED+PCL Healthcare Partners team includes Parkin Architects, Adamson Associates and Jodoin Lamarre Pratte architectes as designers, EllisDon and PCL as the constructors and EllisDon Capital and PCL Investments as financial advisers.