Ontario Building New Hospital in Brantford-Brant

July 21, 2025

The Ontario government is investing an additional $12.5 million to support the planning and construction of a new Brant Community Healthcare System hospital, connecting more patients and families in Brant County, Six Nations of the Grand River and surrounding communities to more convenient, high-quality care close to home.

This funding builds on the Ontario government’s previous investment of $2.5 million and will allow Brant Community Healthcare System to advance planning to build a new hospital in Brantford-Brant. This new state-of-the-art facility will expand capacity, improve services and reduce wait times, ensuring the hospital can continue to meet the needs of the rapidly growing region for years to come.

As a next step, the Ministry of Health is working with Brant Community Healthcare System to complete early planning for this project, including determining bed numbers and square footage. Once future planning is complete and the project is tendered and awarded, a construction schedule will be confirmed.

Once opened, the new hospital would include:

• Increased patient capacity to meet the community’s future needs and allow more people to connect to care sooner
• More access to core programs, emergency services and intensive care
• Medical imaging and other diagnostic services
• Maternal, newborn and pediatric care programs
• Mental health and addictions programs, including a Mental Health Emergency Medicine Unit and Specialized Mental Health Outpatient Clinic
• Modernized medical and surgical inpatient units to allow people to receive vital surgeries and procedures sooner, including for stroke and rehabilitation care
• New ambulatory care programs and clinics to increase access to life-saving dialysis and cancer care

Through Your Health: A Plan for Connected and Convenient Care, the Ontario government is expanding and modernizing Ontario’s hospitals, making it faster and easier for people of all ages to connect to the high-quality care they need, where and when they need it.

Quick Facts

• Brant Community Healthcare System operates 330 beds across two sites that provide a range of services to over 120,000 residents in Brantford, the County of Brant, Six Nations of the Grand River and Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation, including pediatric care, mental health services and critical care.
• Ontario is also supporting other projects at Brant Community Healthcare System, including investing approximately $16 million to complete critical upgrades and repairs of the boiler system and damaged utility services tunnel at Brantford General Hospital.
• Over the next 10 years, Ontario is investing nearly $60 billion on major health infrastructure. This is part of the government’s plan to get shovels in the ground on more than 50 major hospital projects across the province, which will deliver approximately 3,000 new hospital beds and build a connected, people-first health-care system.

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