Mackenzie Richmond Hill Hospital boosts capacity with 120 beds in new centre

Yorkregion.com
Nov. 7, 2017
By Tim Kelly

Mackenzie Richmond Hill Hospital will have more acute-bed capacity thanks to recent approval for an additional 120 beds at the new Reactivation Care Centre, located at the former Humber River Hospital Finch Site in Toronto.

"The additional beds Mackenzie Health will open within the Reactivation Care Centre will help ensure our patients receive the highest level of quality care that best meets their clinical needs in the most appropriate care setting," said Mackenzie Health CEO Altaf Stationwala in making the announcement last week.

The Reactivation Centre brings together patients from five hospitals including Newmarket's Southlake Regional Health Centre, Markham-Stouffville Hospital, Mackenzie Richmond Hill Hospital and Toronto's North York General and Humber River Hospital to provide patients who no longer need acute care with specialized, reactivation care in a setting that best supports them.

Mackenzie Richmond Hill Hospital will have 30 beds dedicated to patients who will make the transition in early December to the Reactivation Care Centre. Up to 90 additional beds for patients who need additional complex continuing care and rehabilitation services will be added in late winter 2018 to make up the 120-bed total.

Mackenzie Health has an Urgent Care Centre for patients with non-life-threatening conditions and will be opening the new Mackenzie Vaughan Hospital, which will include 350 acute-care beds and a full emergency department, in 2020.

"Our team of clinicians at the Reactivation Care Centre will focus on delivering reactivation care in an environment that is more appropriate than an acute-care hospital and features enhanced rehabilitation and complementary therapy services," said Susan Kwolek, Mackenzie Health's executive vice president, chief operating officer and chief nursing officer.

"This solution will also directly help those patients waiting for a bed to be admitted sooner as it will provide much needed acute care capacity and support emergency department flow, which has been at overcapacity for more than a year," Kwolek added.