Construction of our new Our Lady of Mercy Patient Care Wing is well underway, and the 130,000 sq. ft, 4-storey wing is expected to be completed in early 2012. The $73 million development project is named after the former Our Lady of Mercy Hospital, and the new facility will provide the highest quality of care closer to home for our tiniest patients in a state-of-the-art Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, a new Paediatric Unit, and an expanded Family Birthing Centre. Our Child & Adolescent Mental Health unit will also be housed in the new wing, along with parts of our Medicine and Surgery programs.

The Our Lady of Mercy Wing will be home to:

• The new NICU, with 20 bassinettes (an increase from the current 12 bassinettes)
  A larger NICU allows us to take care of more of our tiniest patients. This new space also helps us deliver the right care, at the right time and in the right place to even more women, who are giving birth prematurely anytime after 32 weeks gestation.
  
  The New NICU will be three times larger than our current unit, which will help us enhance the service we provide to patients and their families. Features include more space around each isolette for equipment and families and a 24-hour new parent lounge.
  
  
• An expanded Family Birthing Centre to accommodate up to 4,000 births annually (an increase from the over 3,000 births we had here in the 2010/2011 fiscal year)
  A larger Family Birthing Centre means increased access for pregnant women who wish to give birth in their own community, close to their home. We are growing our capacity to meet the needs of the growing communities in Southwest Toronto that surrounds our hospital.
  
  
• A new Paediatrics Unit which will include six surgical day care beds, six medical day care beds
  We will also feature an expanded area for our Just for Kids paediatric walk-in clinic with four exam bays in a child-friendly space.
  
  
• Approximately 92 adult inpatient beds
  The new wing has been designed with a focus on patient and family-centred care, which includes a designated patient and family lounge, dedicated bathrooms in all patient rooms, central air condition and heating and more natural light.
  
  
• Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services
  This space will double in size in the new OLM wing! The new unit will be serving both outpatients and inpatients in one location. Features include a terrace, exercise room, additional interview rooms, and an onsite washer and dryer.
  
  St. Joe’s will help to Enhance the Health of the Communities we Serve in this new space by continuing our inpatient classroom, lead by a teacher from the Toronto Catholic District School Board, where patients can continue their school studies. The new unit will also give us the ability to have a classroom for our outpatients in the near future.
  
  

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