A new state-of-the-art health care centre has officially opened in Labrador City, N.L. The 9,500-square-foot facility, known as the Labrador West Health Centre, provides patients with access to a variety of services, including emergency, outpatient, surgical, obstetrical, pediatric, respite, palliative care, physiotherapy, oncology/chemotherapy and mental health and addictions.

Winnipeg’s Misericordia Health Centre is currently undergoing extensive renovations, upgrades and additions and phase one is now complete. The $43-million project, set to open in stages, includes the Buhler Eye Care Centre, PRIME program, and Ambulatory Diagnostic Centre. During phase one of construction, an existing facility, known as the Maryland South building, was demolished to make way for a two-storey complex housing the aforementioned programs and centres.

The largest private Canadian health care donation ever made will help to fund the construction of the Ted Rogers Centre for Heart Research in Toronto, O.N. The $130-million donation, supplied by the Rogers family, will assist the development of the facility, which will specialize in individualized genomic medicine, tissue engineering and advanced cardiac care. An additional $139-million in funding will be supplied by SickKids, the University Health Network (UHN) and the University of Toronto (U of T).