Michael Garron Hospital

HH Angus is on the Compliance team for the new eight-storey Ken and Marilyn Thomson Patient Care Centre project at Michael Garron Hospital (MGH), a large community hospital in Toronto’s East York area. The project includes a three-storey connection, as well as demolition and renovations to the existing hospital.

The Redevelopment will add approximately 550,000 ft2, including a new 8-storey tower to house inpatient and mental health beds, ambulatory clinics and a new underground parkade to support the site. It also includes approximately 100,000 ft2 of renovation within the existing facility, including a Cardiac Catheterization Suite and administrative areas. The project is targeting LEED^® Silver.

Our Angus Connect Division assisted in developing a long-term IT strategic vision for the Hospital, including directions, gap analysis, strategic recommendations and Information Technology (IT) solution options to support the hospital moving forward. The strategic plan needed to carefully balance resources with urgency, and to align the vision with the
redevelopment project.

Feedback and findings from stakeholder consultations were key inputs into the strategic recommendations. Angus Connect facilitated a Visioning Session with senior leadership to define a future state vision and evaluation criteria, and consulted with over 100 additional stakeholders over a two-month period in order to refine the Vision Statement, Guiding Principles and Key Strategic Themes; the output from these sessions was presented back to the clinical steering committee for validation. Angus Connect identified fifteen key recommendations based on the common challenges and opportunities raised during stakeholder consultations, leading to forty distinct ICAT solutions which were mapped out over the 5, 10, and 15 year timeframes according to their dependencies, impact and alignment with the vision.

With buildings dating back to 1927, one of the key challenges was integrating technology solutions across a campus with incredibly diverse infrastructure and systems. Our team provided an outline of enabling works projects required to support the transition to more modern systems, while considering the clinical and operational impact – this analysis led to a more holistic approach to planning, more accurate costing and better risk mitigation.

Since that work, Angus Connect was engaged in the Compliance role for the Hospital for Stages 3, 4 and 5, assisted with implementing the ICAT strategy, and also prepared the PSOS (project specific output specifications) for ICAT systems and integration requirements for the integration matrix and interoperability use case definition.