New state-of-the-art hospital will connect more people in the region to high-quality care closer to home
The South Niagara Hospital will strengthen hospital care across our region and ensure patients and families have access to safe, high-quality services close to home. This investment represents more than a new building — it represents confidence in Niagara’s future and a shared commitment to delivering modern, connected hospital care for our growing region.” – Lynn Guerriero, President and CEO, Niagara Health
News from the Ontario Government of Premier Doug Ford and Niagara Health
Posted February 26th, 2026 on Niagara At Large
NIAGARA FALLS, Ontario — The Ontario government is marking a significant milestone in the construction of Niagara Health’s new South Niagara Hospital, with the raising of the final structural beam. Once complete, this new hospital will add more beds and expanded acute care, making it easier for patients in the region to receive the care they need closer to home.
The project is part of the government’s plan to protect Ontario’s health-care system by investing nearly $60 billion in more than 50 major hospital projects across the province over the next 10 years.
“With more than 150 additional beds, a 24/7 emergency department and experts across the spectrum of care needs, the South Niagara Hospital will provide convenient, world-class health care to residents and Niagara Falls and across the region,” said Premier Doug Ford. “Our government will continue to deliver on our historic hospital and primary care expansions, so families have reliable access to quality health-care services, no matter where they live.”
South Niagara Hospital under construction, file photo
The government’s $3.2 billion investment is supporting the construction of the new 12 storey, 1.3-million-square-foot South Niagara Hospital, that will include consolidated and expanded acute care services, updated infrastructure with high-tech facilities and ensure increased connected care in the region.
Once completed in Summer 2028, the new state-of-the-art hospital will provide patients and families with:
- 469 beds, which is 156 more beds than the combined total number of beds in Niagara Health’s Port Colborne, Fort Erie and Niagara Falls campuses
- 24/7 emergency department
- Expanded diagnostic, surgical and therapeutic services
- Ambulatory services and complex continuing care inpatient services
- New Centres of Excellence specializing in stroke, complex care, geriatric care and wellness in aging
- Improved infection prevention and control measures
“Today’s milestone brings the province one step closer to delivering on its goal to connect more families in the Niagara Region, to convenient, high-quality care close to home,” said Sylvia Jones, Deputy Premier and Minister of Health. “The new South Niagara Hospital will significantly increase capacity to meet the needs of the region’s growing population, ensuring Niagara communities can connect to the care they need, right in their own community for generations to come.”
The new hospital will support Niagara Health to continue to deliver a full range of acute care hospital services to the 450,000 residents across the Niagara Region. This includes operating one of Ontario’s busiest emergency departments and providing specialized cancer, cardiac, kidney and acute care.
Through Your Health: A Plan for Connected and Convenient Care, the Ontario government continues to take bold and decisive action to expand and modernize Ontario’s hospitals, making it faster and easier for people of all ages to connect to the high-quality care they need, where and when they need it.
Quick Facts
- Once the new South Niagara Hospital opens, Niagara Health will be operating three hospital sites, including in St. Catharines, Niagara Falls and Welland.
- Ontario is also supporting renovations and critical infrastructure upgrades at the Welland Hospital to create a safer, more comfortable space for people and their families to connect to the care and services they need in the right setting.
- Over the next 10 years, Ontario is investing nearly $60 billion on major health infrastructure. This is part of the government’s plan to get shovels in the ground on more than 50 major hospital projects across the province, which will deliver approximately 3,000 new hospital beds and build a connected, people-first health-care system.
- The Ontario government is investing $257 million in 2025-26 to support critical infrastructure upgrades and repairs at 126 hospitals and 66 community health-care facilities across the province, a 12.3 per cent increase from the previous year.
- In 2025-26, Niagara Health is receiving over $4.54 million through the Health Infrastructure Renewal Fund, including $773,000 in one-time funding as an Exceptional Circumstance Project Grant, to support the critical infrastructure needs of its hospitals.
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