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Originally Posted by RRoome
Does anyone know anything about the new diagnostic imaging centre on Clinch Crescent?
The road is almost realigned near the autism centre, and there's a large mess in front of the Janeway, but I haven't heard a peep about the building itself.
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From survivornet.ca
New equipment to better detect cancer expected in operation by 2015
The province's first positron emission tomography-commuted tomography (PET/CT) scanner is expected to be in operation by 2015.
Construction on the building to house the scanner is expected to be tendered this fall and will take 18 months once underway.
The new addition to the Health Sciences Centre will cost $30 million and the total project — including equipment — will be $40 million. Work will begin in Aug. 1 to realign Clinch Crescent. The new facility will be behind the cancer centre. Also, the Janeway will get a new entrance.
The three-level building will have room for future expansion of the cancer centre.
A contract to realign the road at the Health Sciences Centre was recently awarded to Triple A Excavating Ltd. This will be the first phase of development that will include the creation of a new entrance to the emergency department of the Janeway Children’s Health and Rehabilitation Centre and construction of a new facility to house the Molecular Imaging Program next to the Dr. H. Bliss Murphy Cancer Centre.
So we're likely between the phases of road-work then building. I don't believe the whole project will be complete till 2016 according to Eastern Health, while the Pet/CT system will be online in 2015.