As part of the 2025 Ontario Budget, Finance Minister Peter Bethlenfalvy announced that Southlake Health will receive $10 million to plan for the creation of a Distributed Health Network by building a new hospital and redeveloping its Davis Drive campus. This exciting announcement comes just six months after Southlake unveiled its new Strategy for the Decade Ahead.
The communities Southlake Health serves are among the fastest growing and aging in the province, and without any material acute care expansion in over 20 years, Southlake has become an epicentre of hallway healthcare in Ontario. When faced with these challenges, Southlake’s communities were clear – increase access to high-quality care, closer to home.
As a Distributed Health Network, Southlake will transform care in northern York Region and southern Simcoe County to continue delivering leading edge care, close to home. Anchored by its Davis Drive site and existing community-based locations, Southlake will work with partners to establish additional footholds across the municipalities it serves to tackle hallway healthcare. Key to this will be the creation of a second hospital site and the redevelopment of the Davis Drive campus.
Southlake Health is thankful for the ongoing support of the Ontario government, especially Premier Doug Ford, Minister Sylvia Jones, Minister Peter Bethlenfalvy, and the local members of provincial parliament Dawn Gallagher Murphy, Minister Caroline Mulroney, Minister Stephen Lecce, and Minister Parsa, who champion Southlake Health.
