Vaudreuil-Soulanges Hospital: “Gradual opening” postponed in 2028

The construction of the brand new 404-bed hospital in Vaudreuil-Soulanges, on the South Shore of Montreal, continue, but this project must compose with certain deadlines.

The delivery of this $ 2.6 billion project has been officially postponed in recent weeks from November 2026 to August 2027.

To the Quebec Infrastructure Society (SQI), this postponement is explained by Different elements such as the deadlines attributable to the tendering phases in a context of pandemic which caused an overheating of the market and a shortage of labor.

Last spring, the documents of the Ministry of Health prepared for the study of budgetary credits still reported a Opening planned for 2026.

Everyone is heard, there, that Vaudreuil-Soulanges, it is a project that is super well managed, which is being carried out within the scheduled time, because it is a hospital which is on a new site, which had no facilitiessaid, in May, the Minister of Health, Christian Dubé.

In any case […]we are going to touch wood.

During a site visit in June 2024, the CEO of the CISSS of Montérégie-Ouest said he was convinced to receive the first patients in December 2026.

We have a responsibility, the population has been waiting for a long timesaid Philippe Gribeauval.

The opening of this hospital will allow, among other things, to make up for a lack of beds in this region and to offer subsidized and more specialized services in the territory of the CISSS of Montérégie-Ouest.

For the liberal deputy in the region, Marie-Claude Nichols, the population deserves to know what to stick to the deadlines. Give us the right hour: both the citizens of Vaudreuil-Soulanges and the Quebecers are able to understand […]. If we can help, we’re going to do it.

Meanwhile, Ms. Nichols recalls that citizens go to Hawkesbury, Ontario, to get care.

3,500 jobs to be filled, 200 doctors to find

The site of the Vaudreuil-Soulanges hospital is also a job for hiring and team training.

At Cisss, a spokesperson specifies that Hits will eventually take place, closer to the gradual functioning of the hospital, scheduled for 2028.

It is estimated that 3,500 new employees, 200 doctors and 250 volunteers will be necessary for the full hospitalwe add.

This is a considerable challenge for this CISSS which has around 11,000 staff members.

For the president of the association of omnipractic doctors of the Southwest, Dr. Sylvain Dufresne, The recruitment issue is enormous and, personally, I do not think that it is achievable on such a short deadline.

Just in an emergency, it will take between 20 and 30 doctors to roll this emergencyestimates Dr. Dufresne. In total, around 100 omnipractic doctors will be necessary for all care.

Dr. Dufresne recognizes that the new hospital gives hope of having adequate care for a population who is currently suffering from a lack of beds [d’hospitalisation]but he fears the impacts on other hospitals.

If we want to open it, this hospital, we will harm other regions […] And we will harm a resource point of view. 3500 employees must be recruited!

Similar bell sound on the side of the union of professionals in Montérégie-Ouest (SPSMO-FIQ).

How are they going to drop without dropping other hospitals in the region? wonders President Mélanie Gignac. It questions how far the implementation of “network age”, among nurses, for example, could allow the movement of employees of other regions to meet the needs of Montérégie-Ouest.

Other health infrastructure projects have been shifted in the past year, in particular the site of more than 5 billion at Maisonneuve-Rosemont hospital and the modernization site of Mont-Laurier hospital.