The building is part of Caritas Health Group's participation in the region's Growing in Place: Toward 2010 strategy to move select offices and clinics out of the hospital to free up space for more inpatient beds over time. Approximately 100 beds will be added at the Grey Nuns through this initiative.

Clinics and offices on three inpatient units will be moved to the new 59,000 sq. ft. building, set to open in 2005. The new Day Clinic Support Building will house the Pre-Admission Clinic, Diabetes Centre, IV Therapy region's Growing in Place: Toward 2010 strategy to move select offices and clinics out of the hospital to free up space for more inpatient beds over time. Approximately 100 beds will be added at the Grey Nuns through this initiative.
Clinics and offices on three inpatient units will be moved to the new 59,000 sq. ft. building, set to open in 2005. The new Day Clinic Support Building will house the Pre-Admission Clinic, Diabetes Centre, IV Therapy Clinic, the Psychiatric Outpatient Program and Capital Health Home Care and Regional Palliative Care staff. In addition, a new regional renal dialysis unit will be developed to meet the needs of the growing number of people requiring dialysis.

In the New Year, day clinic/support space will also be developed for the Misericordia Community Hospital-paving the way over time for an estimated 100 additional beds at that site.

The Honourable Ty Lund, Minister of Infrastructure and the Honourable Gene Zwozdesky, Minister of Community Development, attended the October 14 launch at the Grey Nuns, which also included remarks from Muriel Dunnigan, Board Chair for Caritas Health Group, and Capital Health Board Chair Neil Wilkinson.

In her speech, the Caritas Board Chair commended the Government for supporting Capital Health's Growing in Place plan and talked about the tremendous opportunities it provides Caritas Health Group in serving its community. "We are pleased to be a partner in this important initiative and eager to begin," Muriel said. "Each in¬patient area we reclaim will relieve pressures on our busy Emergency Department as the additional beds will help us better serve the residents of our local area and region."

The development of new day clinic and office space at both the Grey Nuns and Misericordia Community Hospitals are part of Capital Health's $l-billion capital plan Growing in Place: Toward 2010, which calls for more than 800 acute care beds and 1,000 long term care beds over the next seven years. That will take the region's acute care bed base from 1.6 beds per 1,000 people to 1.9.