Milton District Hospital

Dr. Stevenson started the first original hospital in Milton. The hospital closed in late 1959 when the new Milton District Hospital opened on Derry Road. Dr. Stevenson was the first chief of surgical staff at the new Derry Rd. hospital.[1]

Initial planning for MDH solidified when in 1956 a ten-acre site was purchased for $1,000 an acre. By 1959 the construction of MDH was complete and the doors officially opened to patients.[2]

In 1972, MDH purchased 20 acres at a cost of $4,000 per acre to the east on Derry Rd. and to the south on Bronte St. in order to plan for future expansion.[3]

In cooperation with the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care, MDH has been very successful in attracting both family physicians and a full complement of specialists to Milton.

The population of Milton is expected to increase to more than 100,000 by 2014. HHS has submitted a business case to the Ministry of Health and Long Term for the expansion of MDH and are waiting to receive approval from the government to begin planning.

In 2006, the hospital received a $500,000 CAD donation from James W. Snow for the hospital Foundation's CT Scanner Campaign.

Milton District Hospital offers a wide range of primary care services. Its major areas of clinical emphasis include emergency, obstetrics, general medicine, intensive care unit, surgery, rehabilitation, complex transitional care and medical imaging.

The emergency department is open 24 hours a day, seven days a week, together with the outpatient department provides care to more than 37,000 patients annually.

The hospital is equipped with a helipad.[4]

MDH's first expansion came in 1967, only a few years after initially opening its doors.[2]

In 2015, the Government of Ontario announced an investment of up to $501.3 million to support the construction of a new four-story patient care building at Milton District Hospital to give patients faster access to care.[5]

Through this expansion, patients in Milton were expected to benefit from:

• A new patient care building to offer priority clinical services, including critical care, maternal newborn, diagnostic imaging, emergency, surgery and inpatient beds
• Increasing inpatient beds from 63 to 129, including more single-patient rooms for improved infection prevention and increased patient privacy
• The addition of the hospital's first Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) machine
• A Special Care Nursery with capacity for eight bassinettes in the Maternal Newborn Unit.

Construction at Milton District Hospital was completed in 2017. A news report in September 2017 indicated that the facility now provided an extra 330,000 square feet of health-care space. The Emergency Department, for example, was tripled in size, with a new capacity of 45,000 patient visits per year.[6]