Braley health centre opens in downtown Hamilton

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A new medical centre named for businessman and philanthropist David Braley has officially opened in downtown Hamilton.

Set across the street from city hall, it will change the face of the downtown core, while changing the face of urban medicine. The $84.6 million, 192,000 square foot facility is the first in Canada to incorporate both public and academic health services.

About 500 McMaster DeGroote School of Medicine and public health employees will call it home, along with 15,000 potential patients. David Braley and company are looking forward to the future.

“What we are going to do now is substantially increase health care to citizens and then we are going to increase our research base. Everything working together, public health and maternity and McMaster family practice, we have 100 new patients already in the first week.”

The parliamentary assistant to Ontario health minister Deb Matthews, Indira Naidoo-Harris told CHCH News: “I think it will change the face of health care right here in this community. Frankly in this province and in this country this is the first co-location of academic care and public health care in Canada. This is historic, it is ground-breaking. We are breaking the mould and we are getting rid of barriers, so this is a wonderful day for Hamilton.”

The facility will also be a place where nursing and medical students will come to study.