December 22, 2025
Province investing an additional $320,600 this year to connect people in Atikokan to care, close to home
NEWS December 22nd, 2025
ATIKOKAN — The Ontario government is investing an additional $320,600 this year to deliver faster, more connected care to people in Thunder Bay. This is part of the province’s investment of $1.1 billion in additional hospital funding, through the 2025 Budget, to enhance operational improvements and ensure Ontarians can continue to access high-quality care in their community.
“Thank you to everyone across our health care system who works tirelessly to care for families in Atikokan. “ said The Hon. Kevin Holland, MPP for Thunder Bay – Atikokan. “This investment reflects our government’s ongoing focus on strengthening our hospitals so people can continue to receive dependable, high-quality care close to home.”
Through this investment, the Ontario government is delivering an increase of up to four per cent in base and targeted funding to hospital operating budgets for the third consecutive year, providing more connected and convenient care across the province. The funding will help hospitals keep emergency departments open, support inflationary or other wage pressures and reduce wait times for diagnostic imaging and surgical procedures, including MRI, CT, cardiac, stroke, neuroservices, orthopedics and cataracts, so that people can connect to care faster.
“Our government is making historic investments to protect Ontario’s health-care system, ensuring that more people can connect to convenient care in their community, when they need it,” said Sylvia Jones, Deputy Premier and Minister of Health. “This unprecedented investment will allow our hospitals to continue delivering the highest standard of care while reducing wait lists and wait times, for years to come.”
To continue to make it faster and easier for people to access the care they need, no matter where they live, Ontario’s $1.1 billion investment includes funding to specifically support smaller and Northern hospitals to maintain service delivery and reduce their surgical wait lists and wait times.
Through Your Health: A Plan For Connected and Convenient Care, the Ontario government is expanding access to key services to provide people with the right care, in the right place, close to come.
Quick Facts
- The province’s $1.1 billion investment through Budget 2025, represents an up to four percent increase in funding for the hospital sector for the third year in a row.
- Over the next 10 years, Ontario is investing nearly $60 billion in 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.
Additional Resources
Ontario Reducing Wait Times in Emergency Departments
Your Health: A Plan for Connected and Convenient Care