MPP Arnott tells Legislature that Groves Hospital
Redevelopment Plan is ready to proceed but needs Ministry approval

Waterloo-Wellington MPP Ted Arnott supported the Groves Memorial Community Hospital’s redevelopment project in a speech to the Ontario Legislature during a debate on hospital funding on October 14th.

“The nurses, doctors, administrators, staff and volunteers on the hospital and foundation boards are the core, the centre of health care in communities like Fergus, where the Groves Memorial Hospital serves a much broader catchment area. I’m quite familiar with Groves Memorial Hospital and how well they care for people. I was born there in 1963, as were our three boys in the latter half of the 1990s when we were residents of the Village of Arthur,” Mr. Arnott said while informing the House about Groves hospital.

Noting that hospitals across Ontario are dealing with a $600 million shortfall in provincial funding, he continued by raising the subject of Groves’ redevelopment plan and the need to get approval from the Ministry.

“More than $14 million has been raised and pledged by our community for the hospital. We are ready to proceed, but we can’t until we get approval from the Ministry of Health for our master plan and for functional planning,” Mr. Arnott said.

“I insist that the ministry move the process along, right now, with the necessary approvals at this stage so that the Groves staff can continue their important work. The redevelopment project will be beneficial for health care delivery throughout the hospital’s catchment area, and it should not be victim to unnecessary bureaucratic delay,” he added.