en.Wedoany.com Reported - The new outpatient care center at Unity Health Toronto's St. Michael's Hospital Emergency Department has officially opened to patients. Renovated and expanded from the hospital's historic Shuter Wing, the center will serve over 70,000 non-hospitalized patients annually after expansion.

St. Michael's Hospital launched the project in 2023, with a new building at the corner of Bond and Shuter streets replacing the century-old wing at the hospital's northeast end. Interior and structural demolition was completed in spring 2023, with construction beginning shortly thereafter.

The new center includes a dedicated outpatient entrance, separate waiting areas for non-hospitalized patients, private consultation rooms, confidential discharge suites, and centralized nursing workstations. The project is supported by a $204 million CAD investment from the Ontario government and is part of St. Michael's Hospital's Peter Gilgan Patient Care Tower project.

The project includes five new dedicated operating rooms, as well as expanded facilities for orthopedic surgery, oncology, cardiology, and respiratory care. Additionally, the Ontario government has invested over $15 million CAD to support Unity Health Toronto in planning, designing, and implementing the relocation of St. Michael's Hospital's Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU).

The new facility is expected to be completed by summer 2027, at which point over 12,000 square feet of space will be renovated, and all bassinet units in the NICU will be moved to larger spaces within St. Michael's Hospital's new patient care tower.

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