Calgary Cancer Centre on schedule to be completed in 2023
Posted Dec 10, 2021 5:04 pm.
Despite the COVID-19 pandemic and supply chain issues, the $1.4-billion Calgary Cancer Centre is now 90 per cent complete.
The new facility, located just outside the Foothills Medical Centre, is slated to open to the public in fall 2023 and will be replacing the Tom Baker Cancer Centre.
A Birds eye view of the nearly completed Cancer Centre at the Foothills Hospital. Slated to open in fall of 2022, it will replace the Tom Baker Cancer centre and is expected to be the largest of its kind in Canada. #yyc #calgary @citynewscalgary pic.twitter.com/OGoduaEHbY
— Nick Blakeney (@CameraGuyNick) December 10, 2021
“The Tom Baker Cancer Centre reached its capacity in 2003, almost 20 years ago, and has been bursting at the seams serving so many people struggling with cancers of all kinds,” Alberta’s Health Minster Jason Copping said on Friday.
The two-million-square-foot centre is double the size of Tom Baker and is expected to be the largest and most modern health facility of its kind in Canada.
The new facility will house more than 100 chemotherapy chairs and patient exam rooms, 160 inpatient unit beds, 12 radiation vaults with room for more, and outpatient cancer clinics among many other programs and spaces.
Premier Kenney on hand to announce that the new Cancer Centre at Foothills Hospital is nearly complete and scheduled to open in the fall of 2022. #abpoli #yyc #calgary @citynewscalgary pic.twitter.com/9zjdPhOcVE
— Nick Blakeney (@CameraGuyNick) December 10, 2021
“We are that much closer to filling the space with equipment and furniture and to seeing nurses and doctors walking down these hallways and into patient rooms to provide advice, give treatment, provide care and hold the patient’s hand in comfort,” Copping said.
The province expects to hand over the project to Alberta Health Service in the fall of 2022 for building commissioning.
