Barrette officially annouces Vaudreuil-Soulanges to get long-awaited hospital

VAUDREUIL-SOULANGES – One of Canada’s fastest-growing municipalities is getting a hospital.

Quebec Health Minister Gaétan Barrette made it official Monday afternoon in front of the 250,000 square-metre site.

The land is currently zoned agricultural, but it hasn’t been farmed in three generations.

It sits at the intersection of Autoroute 40 and Route 340.

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“The sticker price will clock in around $800 million, and it could be a public-private partnership,” Barrette said, adding that the province will pay careful attention to cost overruns.

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The Vaudreuil-Soulanges hospital will serve a population of about 150,000.

Some people currently travel all the way to Hawkesbury, Ontario for care.

The estimate is that builders won’t finish the structure sooner than around eight-and-a-half years.