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Hi All

Here's some info on the QEH expansion

The first phase, which began in June 2008, will take two years to complete and cost $56 million — more than the original cost to build the hospital.
The second phase, which will begin in 2010, will be completed by 2012.

Phase one will include a massive expansion of the emergency department. It will nearly triple in size from 8,000 square feet to 22,000 square feet.
The new section will be built onto the existing emergency room, extending the hospital out towards the mechanical plant.
The number of treatment rooms will increase from 20 to 37. That should reduce wait times and provide for more effective treatment.
At the same time, the P.E.I. Cancer Treatment Centre will be expanded to make room for a second linear accelerator, which provides radiation treatment. That will reduce wait times at the cancer centre from 11 weeks to eight weeks. It will take two years to complete phase one.

Phase two will include a new ambulatory care centre that will be constructed at the existing hospital entrance.
Philpott describes the new centre as one-stop shopping. The new centre will include most outpatients services now scattered throughout the hospital, including blood collection, cardiac tests and blood transfusions.
The centre will also house a medical clinic.
The ambulatory care centre more than triples in size, going from 10,000 square feet to 34,000 square feet.
The overall size of the hospital will increase from 350,000 square feet to 400,000 square feet.
The aging Queen Elizabeth Hospital is now 26 years old, and it has been updated but never on this scale.

Good to see all the other regional hospitals are expanding to meet
the needs of it's citizens.

Cheers