Some movement on the proposed new hospital for Gatineau.
https://www.ledroit.com/actualites/s...7d6549be20ad64
The article is in French, so to sum it up, during the election campaign in 2018, the CAQ promised a new 170 bed hospital for Gatineau within 5 years.
Over the last two years, they've been studying different options, including an expansion of an existing hospital, which seemed to be the most likely scenario. Around the spring, the Minister responsible for the Outaouais, Mathieu Lacombe, enthusiastically said a big announcement was coming soon, but we didn't hear anything until late summer, when they said it likely be closer to 10 years.
So here we are now. This new 600 bed hospital, bigger than any single hospital campus in Ottawa, bed wise (General-569, Civic-549), but smaller than the planned new Civic (800-900). It will come with a major reorganization of the Outaouais' medical system. The existing Hull and Gatineau hospitals each have 200 beds, while the Buckingham hospital has 66 beds and the Outaouais has a total of 800. The region will have a net gain of 240 beds, 40% more than what was initially promised. According to a government source, 300 beds will "change vocation", meaning no shut-downs of any existing institution.
The government has not figured out the services that will be offered in the new hospital at this time, but it will be a teaching hospital and will include 32 labour/delivery/recuperation/post-partem beds.