PENTICTON — The new patient care tower at Penticton Regional Hospital is one step closer to becoming a reality.
The B.C. Government has announced that a builder has been selected.
Ellis Don Infrastructure will build the new tower and parkade. The company was founded in 1951 in Ontario, and has offices across Canada and in the Middle East.
The new tower will add an additional 287,000 square feet to the existing facility and has been budgeted at $325 million. The Okanagan-Similkameen Regional Hospital District will pay $122 million and the South Okanagan Similkameen Medical Foundation is contributing $20 million to the project.
The province says the project will be built in two phases. It says phase-one will include construction of the new patient tower which will include a new walk-in centre, a surgical services centre, and 84 medical and surgical beds.
Phase two will include the renovation of the existing hospital including the expansion of the emergency department.
The government says more than 1900 jobs are expected to be created over the life of the project.
Construction is expected to begin in early 2016 and will likely take more than three years.
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