Saint-Mary's Hospital is getting a $65-million facelift, the Health Minister announced on Friday.
“There's going to be two additional floors," Gaetan Barrette said. "There will be floors seven and eight, so those will be new storeys on which there will be 60 new rooms and 20 of the [current] multi-bed rooms will be renovated to become single bed rooms."
Despite the increase in private rooms, the number of beds in the hospital will remain the same at 271.
The funding also includes money for new bathrooms and specialized treatment rooms, according to Barrette.
The project is slated to get underway in 2019, with $1.5 million already earmarked to begin the necessary studies before the start of renovating.
Originally founded in 1924 before moving to its current location a decade later, Saint Mary's Hospital is considered a landmark for the Montreal anglophone community. When the current hospital opened in 1934, it was declared a monument to English Catholicism.
—with files from CTV Montreal