Plenary Health selected to develop Mackenzie Vaughan Hospital

DailyCommercialNews.com
Sept. 7, 2016
DCN News Services 
    
Plenary Health has been selected to design, build, finance and maintain the new Mackenzie Vaughan Hospital.

Infrastructure Ontario (IO) and Mackenzie Health (MH) selected Plenary Health as the preferred proponent after a request for proposals process that began in June 2015, states a release issued by MH.

The Plenary Health team includes Plenary Group (Canada) Ltd. as developer and financial advisor, Stantec Architecture Ltd., RTKL (design), PCL Constructors (construction) and Johnson Controls Canada LP (facilities management).

Bert Clark, president and CEO of IO, said, "We look forward to continuing to work with Mackenzie Health to finalize the details of the contract with Plenary Health and starting construction on this important project in the coming months."

Mackenzie Vaughan Hospital is the first hospital to be built in the city of Vaughan and the first new hospital to be built in York Region in the last 30 years. It will include a state-of-the-art emergency department; modern surgical services and operating rooms; advanced diagnostic imaging; specialized ambulatory clinics and intensive care beds; medicine, birthing (obstetrics), pediatrics, mental health and the York Region District Stroke Centre; and about 90 per cent single occupancy acute-care patient rooms for infection prevention and control.

IO and MH will now work to finalize contract details with Plenary Health. The project is expected to reach commercial close and financial close this fall. The contract cost will be announced publicly following financial close and construction is scheduled to begin shortly thereafter.

This project is being delivered using IO's Alternative Financing and Procurement (AFP) model. Thirty-five hospital projects have been completed using the AFP model as of March 31, 2016. IO and the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care are working with Mackenzie Health to build the new facility, which will be publicly owned and controlled.