Brampton’s Civic Centre to be dwelling to the primary new medical college within the Higher Toronto Space in over 100 years.
January 27, 2023 – In a historic transfer, the Metropolis of Brampton, the Authorities of Ontario, and Toronto Metropolitan College (TMU) introduced that the Bramalea Civic Centre might be dwelling to the brand new Toronto Metropolitan College College of Drugs.
The situation, at 150 Central Park Drive in Brampton, was chosen for its proximity to each the Brampton Civic and Peel Memorial Hospitals in addition to its accessibility to municipal transportation, GO transit, and freeway techniques.
The Metropolis of Brampton will make investments $20 million of funding to help constructing renovations required for the programing and operations of the College of Drugs.
The TMU College of Drugs marks the primary new medical college within the Higher Toronto Space (GTA) in over 100 years and can make Brampton the house of a community-centric medical college targeted on inclusivity, innovation, and first care. The college would require 250,000 sq. ft for lecture rooms, places of work, analysis services, and an built-in well being clinic.
“We’re dedicated to creating a college of medication to fulfill the various wants of the Brampton and Peel Area group and at present, with a location secured, we’re one step nearer“, commented TMU’s President and Vice-Chancellor Mohamed Lachemi.
The institution of a medical college in Brampton has been a big a part of the Metropolis’s ongoing advocacy work. In 2021, Brampton Metropolis Council voted in favor of a $1 million planning grant to assist fund a future College of Drugs within the metropolis, matching the funding invested by the Province of Ontario earlier that yr. In March 2022, the Authorities of Ontario introduced its plans for increasing medical college training to construct a stronger, extra resilient healthcare system, together with including 80 undergraduate seats and 95 postgraduate positions for the TMU College College of Drugs in Brampton when it opens in 2025.
“At the moment is a momentous day for Brampton as we announce the Civic Centre being dwelling to the primary medical college within the GTA in over 100 years!” mentioned Patrick Brown, Mayor, Metropolis of Brampton. “Via the creation of the Brampton College of Drugs, we’re constructing a healthcare system that fosters native expertise and creates financial progress within the medical sector. This college and the Metropolis’s second hospital being constructed at Peel Memorial will assist handle the healthcare emergency in Brampton and ensures the following era of healthcare practitioners can prepare regionally proper right here within the metropolis.”
At the moment is a momentous day for Brampton as we announce the Civic Centre being dwelling to the primary medical college within the GTA in over 100 years!
Patrick Brown, Mayor of Brampton
The Honourable Doug Ford, Premier of Ontario, additionally congratulated the companions on this subsequent step. “As our authorities makes historic investments to construct and increase our well being care infrastructure, TMU’s new college of medication will assist to make sure that we now have the docs in place — in Brampton, in Peel Area, and all through the province — in order that Ontarians get the standard care they want, when and the place they want it.”
A shared imaginative and prescient for a College of Drugs in Brampton builds on present partnerships between the College and the Metropolis of Brampton, together with the Rogers Cybersecure Catalyst and the Brampton Enterprise Zone.
To study extra concerning the College of Drugs, go to www.torontomu.ca/school-of-medicine/
