It won’t be a completely new hospital at Trillium Health Partner’s Mississauga Hospital site.

However, once the new expansion project is complete, it will be — for all intents and purposes.

Michelle DiEmanuele, Trillium’s president and CEO, said her organization has been tapped to receive a chunk of the $9 billion the Ontario government has earmarked in its 2017 budget for construction of new hospital projects across the province. DiEmanuele was joined by Premier Kathleen Wynne, Health Minister Dr. Eric Hoskins and Finance Minister Charles Sousa, who also serves as Mississauga South MPP, at Mississauga Hospital on Monday, May 1 to unveil the list of the five initial projects to receive part of the budget funds.

DiEmanuele, who wouldn’t say how much of the money Trillium would receive or the approximate cost of the redevelopment because the project hasn’t gone to tender, said it will involve a new acute care tower being constructed at the Mississauga Hospital site. That facility will include a new emergency department, operating rooms and an intensive care unit, among other amenities.

Trillium will use some of the funding it receives to add 500 new beds between Mississauga Hospital (350) and Queensway Health Centre (150) and to replace 500 aging beds at Mississauga Hospital, which is more than six decades old. The money will also be put toward establishing a post-acute complex at the Queensway location in Etobicoke.

She added that having more post-acute beds at Queensway will free up capacity at Trillium’s other sites, which also includes Credit Valley Hospital.

DiEmanuele wasn’t able to provide a timeline for when the projects might get started and said more details should emerge in the coming weeks and months.

Ontario is also spending $518 million to increase operating funds for hospitals and DiEmanuele said they will receive about a three per cent increase and will know the exact amount they will get in about a week to ten days.

Wynne, who visited the hospital a few months back where she had a chance to speak with DiEmanuele about some of the local concerns, said it was clear that her government needed to play its part in helping the hospital meet the ever-increasing demand in Mississauga and Peel.

“During my tour a few months ago, it was very clear to me that the growth that has happened in this region has been huge and you’re seeing it reflected in this hospital,” said Wynne, adding it was “clear” to her that the hospital needed new investment to help it keep pace with the growth in demand.