Construction begins on new Groves hospital
Posted Aug 9, 2017 04:02:23 PM.
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The ground was officially broken on the new Groves Memorial Community Hospital at a ceremony in the Township of Centre Wellington today.
Wellington-Halton Hills MPP Ted Arnott, who attended the groundbreaking, noted the importance of the hospital project to the community.
“We are embarking on nothing less than building the future of primary health care in this community, and an example of innovation, collaboration and partnership that the rest of Ontario could emulate,” Arnott said.
Arnott acknowledged the many people whose efforts have helped bring the hospital project to this point. “My colleagues in elected public service, Mayor Kelly Linton, Warden Dennis Lever, Members of Township and County Council, Randy Pettapiece MPP and their predecessors going back many years, all have been enthusiastic in their support of the Hospital, and deserve our acknowledgment and heartfelt thanks,” he said.
In particular, Arnott singled out Groves Hospital staff as well as the many community volunteers who have played such a pivotal role.
Arnott has been a strong advocate for the new hospital for many years. He persistently raised the issue with successive Ministers of Health and their staffs, both in private conversations as well as in letters and email,
and has brought the issue forward many times during debate in the Ontario Legislature.
Arnott intends to continue to monitor the hospital project as it continues through the construction process.
The new hospital is expected to be completed in late 2019.
