On May 28 2013, Infrastructure Ontario and Hawkesbury & District General Hospital issued a request for qualifications (RFQ) to build and finance the hospital's expansion and redevelopment project.

Submissions will be reviewed to pre-qualify project teams to deliver a project of this size and complexity. These teams will then be invited to respond to a request for proposals, which is expected to be released in the fall of 2013.

Infrastructure Ontario and the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care are working with Hawkesbury & District General Hospital to expand and renovate the facility, which will remain publicly owned, publicly controlled and publicly accountable.

The project includes a combination of renovations and new construction at the hospital. Highlights of the project include:

• a new consolidated ambulatory care centre that will include specialty clinics, hemodialysis, cardiology services and medical day care
• an expanded complex continuing care unit
• a new perioperative department
• expansion of emergency services
• additional acute care inpatient beds
• major renovations to the existing hospital to accommodate a new psychiatry in-patient unit, an expanded medical-surgical unit, expanded diagnostic services and a new operating room