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While the provincial government under Premier Doug Ford is seemingly pulling the plug on many projects and programs across Ontario, Windsor’s $2-billion mega-hospital plan has officially received the go-ahead to proceed to the next stage.

“We had our first official call post-election last week,” said David Musyj, CEO for Windsor Regional Hospital. “It was a positive call. We continued from where we were in May right before the election. Now we will start working through the details and moving the project forward.

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“There was no indication whatsoever by the ministry of any changes.”

The mega-hospital plan, which features a new acute care hospital off County Road 42, has been approved to enter stage two by the health ministry.

This is where we design exactly how the various programs in the hospital are to be operated, how many beds there will be and the staffing needs.

The plan also includes building an urgent-care centre at the former Grace hospital site, moving 60 acute-care mental health beds to the Tayfour site on Prince Road and having Hotel-Dieu Grace Healthcare take over Windsor Regional’s Ouellette Avenue site for outpatient mental health care services and chronic-disease management.