Welland Hospital: What's Ahead
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What’s happening?
Niagara Health has approval from the provincial government to begin renovations at the Welland Hospital.
These renovations prepare us for 2028, when the new South Niagara Hospital opens and we transition to a three-site hospital system model.
What's Ahead for Welland Hospital
What renovations are coming?
Planned improvements include:
Enhanced safety and security for select areas
Infrastructure upgrades
Refreshed patient rooms
Increased single and double patient rooms
Significantly reduced triple patient rooms and elimination of quad rooms
Areas include:
- Level 1, Woolcott wing, Complex Continuing Care unit
- Level 2 east/west
- Level 3 south (not including ICU)
- Level 4 east/west
- Level 6 east/west
Renovations will begin as early as summer 2026 and be completed in line with the opening of the South Niagara Hospital.
These changes allow us to:
- Move more than 60 complex care beds to Welland
- Move the 35-bed residential addictions treatment program to Welland in 2028
What services will be at Welland after 2028?
After 2028, Welland will:
Continue to be a cornerstone of Niagara's new three-site hospital system
Be home to the Residential Addictions' Treatment Program
Have an increase in complex care beds
Be a Centre of Excellence for Eye Care
Our future vision does not work without Welland.
What comes next?
You will continue to hear from us.
We are listening.
We are committed to this site.
We are planning for the future – together.
Extraordinary Caring. Every Person. Every Time.
