b'HEALTHY IMPROVEMENTSFOR MANITOBAFive health-care projects under construction across the provinceBy Kelly ParkerIn the fall of 2021, the Manitoba government detailed its plans for what it called a historic $812-million capital investment in building, expanding and renovating health-care facilities across the province in support of the Clinical and Preventive Services Plan. The plan, led by clinicians, establishes a geographic network of care that will improve access to care for all Manitobans. The plan involved multiple facilities, including the Boundary Trails Health Centre, Portage District General Hospital and Bethesda Regional Health Centre under the direction of Southern Health-Sant Sud, and the Neepawa Health Centre and Brandon Regional Health Centre under the umbrella of Prairie Mountain Health.BOUNDARY TRAILS HEALTH CENTREThe Boundary Trails Health Centre,pharmacy, health information servicesfacilityfrom the energy centre to the situated between Morden and Winklerand administration to the CSB in orderinpatient buildingin lieu of routing the on Hwy 3 and Manitoba 14, will get anto free up space within the hospital forservices through the existing facilitys upgrade to the existing facility that willexpansion of key services, including thecrawlspace, which allowed for a cleaner add new acute care inpatient beds,emergency department, CancerCareinstallation and finished product.plus a new adjacent building that willand surgery, explains Kyle MacNair,MacNair also says that the challenges provide a larger, more modern spaceImplementation LeadClinical Planning,involved in working within and around for patient care programs to supportSouthern Health-Sant Sud. The CSB willan operating acute care facility required the health needs of the several growingalso house the new CancerCare Centretop-notch communication and planning. This communities in the catchment. of Hope, while the IPU will add 24 newproject implemented significant Building The project will occur in two stages,medial beds, nine labour and deliveryInformation Modelling (BIM) coordination with construction of a new two-storeybeds and a new eight-bed level-two and collaboration, which included the community services building (CSB)infant nursery. construction manager, trade contractors and and inpatient building (IPU) additionsA unique aspect of the project was theconsultants, all working together to maximize occurring first. We will be relocatingapproach taken to power the inpatientspace usage and ensure the aggressive child rehabilitation, home care, educationunit, explains MacNair, which consistedconstruction schedule meets the targeted services, public health, midwifery,of directional boring under the existingcompletion [date].Images courtesy of Southern Health-Sant Sud.44 BUILD MANITOBAwinnipegconstruction.ca'