Biggest hospital in Canada is being built in Mississauga, and it just got a $10M boost

A $10-million gift to Mississauga’s hospital network will help create a “world-class wellness program” to keep doctors, nurses, patients and others as healthy as possible, health-care officials say.

The money was recently delivered to Trillium Health Partners from local entrepreneurs Mona and Ash Singh, whose two children were born in Mississauga.

Trillium Health Partners is the umbrella organization that oversees Mississauga Hospital and Credit Valley Hospital in addition to the Queensway Health Centre on the Etobicoke-Mississauga border.

Specifically, the $10-million donation will go toward what will be the largest hospital in Canada when it opens in Mississauga in 2033 — The Peter Gilgan Mississauga Hospital. That “state-of-the-art” health-care facility will replace the current hospital, which has stood at the corner of Hurontario Street and The Queensway since the 1950s.

Hospital officials said in a press release the new “world-class wellness program” will help “the hospital’s dedicated staff, professional staff, learners and volunteers as well as patients, their families and  the community.”

According to Trillium Health Partners officials, the initiative “reflects a growing awareness of the key role of wellness and promoting disease prevention, encouraging a more holistic and proactive approach to health to benefit the individual and, more broadly, the hospital and the health system.”

Once launched, the program will operate out of the Mona & Ash Singh Wellness Hub to be located on the main floor of the new multibillion-dollar hospital.

Hospital officials say the Singhs, who are from Mississauga, have a long history of giving to the community “and their philanthropic leadership will help raise the community dollars needed to make this incredible project come to life.”

The family is also committed to “investing in overall wellness, particularly for health-care teams who have experienced increased stress over the last few years due to the pandemic and health human resource shortages.”

Caroline Riseboro, president and CEO of Trillium Health Partners Foundation, said the $10-million donation is “a powerful example of philanthropy that can ignite positive change to the health-care system.

“Their generosity will provide the resources to develop a hospital model that elevates wellness and self-care to benefit our people and then be shared across the province, Canada and the world.”

The donors said they have long believed in the benefits of wellness and promoting disease prevention in daily living.

Their financial gift “expands on the idea of a personal commitment to healthy living to a collective commitment to foster wellness across the hospital, from frontline care to patients. The potential benefits are huge,” said Mona and Ash Singh.

(Cover photo: Rendering of The Peter Gilgan Mississauga Hospital)