Mackenzie Health is a healthcare provider serving over half a million residents in Richmond Hill, Vaughan, and the surrounding communities. It includes the Mackenzie Richmond Hill Hospital, the newly opened Cortellucci Vaughan Hospital, and a wide network of community-based services.

Agnew Peckham is especially proud of the work we have done to help Mackenzie Health realize their vision to build Canada’s first smart hospital – utilizing digital communications and integrated technology systems to provide state-of-the-art patient care at the new Cortellucci Vaughan Hospital, which opened in February 2021 as a pandemic response hospital with an exclusive focus on creating ICU and acute care capacity to help address the surge in COVID-19 cases in Ontario. It will open as a full-service hospital, as originally planned, once the health care system and the pandemic pressures have stabilized.

Agnew Peckham has been engaged to assist Mackenzie Health with several major projects, including:

• Conducting quantitative analysis and research to ensure that the development plan was based on solid market share assumptions – vital due to the fact that Cortellucci Vaughan Hospital was built as the first net new hospital in Ontario in 30 years
• Preparing a detailed Stage 2 Functional Program and Functional Output Specifications (FOS) as part of the Project Specific Output Specifications (PSOS) for Cortellucci Vaughan Hospital
• Integrating LEAN process flows and exemplary patient experience in the development of Cortellucci Vaughan Hospital’s Functional Program
• Ensuring that the design for the new hospital was flexible and adaptable in terms of space and future community growth – aptly demonstrated when Cortellucci Vaughan Hospital first opened its doors as a system solution to help fight Covid-19, providing additional space for critical and acute care patients during the pandemic to support Ontario hospitals facing capacity pressures

“We have a long-standing working relationship with Agnew Peckham and have come to rely on their innovative thinking and profound knowledge of the Ministry of Health planning process. Agnew Peckham has extensive programming experience, and has assisted us with numerous capital development projects and approvals over the years. Their dynamic team of consultants understand the ever-changing health care environment, and are experts in transformative process redesign and design interpretation. They are also extremely responsive to customer needs.” 

– David Stolte, Vice President, Strategy and Redevelopment