Vaughan Health Care Foundation
| Mackenzie Vaughan Hospital | |
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| Mackenzie Health | |
Artist rendition of Mackenzie Vaughan Hospital
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| Geography | |
| Location | Vaughan, York Region, Ontario, Canada |
| Coordinates | 43°50′59″N 79°32′31″W / 43.84966°N 79.54200°WCoordinates: 43°50′59″N 79°32′31″W / 43.84966°N 79.54200°W |
| Organization | |
| Care system | Public Medicare (Canada) (OHIP) |
| Funding | Non-profit hospital |
| Hospital type | General |
| Services | |
| Emergency department | Yes |
| Beds | 342 |
| Links | |
| Website | mackenziehealth |
| Lists | Hospitals in Canada |
The Mackenzie Vaughan Hospital is a hospital under construction in Vaughan, Ontario, Canada, expected to be completed in 2020. It will be operated by Mackenzie Health, which also operates Mackenzie Richmond Hill Hospital.
The hospital is being built on a 25-hectare property on the northwest corner of Jane Street and Major Mackenzie Drive, adjacent to Canada's Wonderland. Its construction will cost about C$1.2 billion.
On 16 January 2004, the city of Vaughan established the Vaughan Health Care Foundation (VHCF), an independent non-profit organization with primary task to "bring a hospital and ancillary services" to Vaughan. Its chairman was Michael di Biase. The VHCF was required to raise about $200 million to fund the city's share of the projected $1.3 billion construction costs and for acquisition of equipment. Michael DeGasperis later became chairman of the board, and in November 2007 he and others established the privately owned Vaughan Health Campus of Care (VHCC). DeGasperis became chairman of VHCC, and board member and insurance businessman Sam Ciccolini became chairman of VHCF.
The group campaigned to build a hospital in Vaughan, and with local community and political support, in 2007 the Government of Ontario gave official approval to build a hospital in Vaughan, and in October 2008 it directed the Central LHIN (the regional Local Health Integration Network) to create the master plan for development of the hospital. At this time, construction of the hospital was expected to start in 2011.
Search for a suitable site began in 2007, and VHCC approached landowners of at least nine sites in Vaughan to evaluate its suitability to build a hospital and other health care services. A 2008 report by Deloitte Consulting commissioned by the Central LHIN stated that the proposed hospital should be located on the Highway 400 corridor. In 2009, VHCC negotiated a deal with Cedar Fair to acquire the northern portion of land on the Canada's Wonderland campus. The city of Vaughan paid C$60 million for 82 acres.
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