Introducing Paul Landry, Project Director for the New Windsor/Essex Acute Care Hospital
25-1-2022
Paul Landry, Project Director,
New Windsor/Essex Acute Care Hospital
It has been a busy and exciting start to 2022 for the New Windsor/Essex Acute Care Hospital. Meetings with 40+ User Groups representing different programs and services began earlier this month, kicking off Stage 2 of the planning process.
Today, Windsor Regional Hospital is pleased to introduce the Project Management Team that will lead planning through this next stage including the new hospital’s Project Director: Paul Landry.
Landry is a senior management leader who brings a wealth of experience in strategic planning for new hospitals - including the planning and development of multi-billion dollar mega teaching hospitals in Montreal and Vancouver.
“Working with hospital staff and communities to modernize health care facilities is challenging, fun, and most of all rewarding for all those involved,” Landry says. “It’s a privilege to now be part of this project and I look forward to working with the dedicated, passionate team here “
Between 2010 and 2016, Landry led the planning and construction phases of the Centre hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal (CHUM), a $3-billion redevelopment project that includes a 772-bed main hospital building and a research-and-education centre. With more than 12,000 employees and about 5000 students and interns, CHUM is considered a flagship teaching hospital. Since its completion in 2021, CHUM has won numerous architectural awards.
In 2016, Landry was recruited by Providence Health Care in Vancouver to support another Canadian mega teaching hospital project: St. Paul’s Hospital.
He led the planning and design process for the development of a business case for St. Paul’s, a new 475-bed teaching hospital project estimated at nearly $2 billion.
Most recently, he has worked as Chief Redevelopment Officer for the Weeneebayko Area Health Authority where he led the Stage 3 planning and development process for a new health centre in Moosonee for Indigenous communities along the Lower James Bay Coast. A project he will continue to support as he transitions into his new role with Windsor Regional Hospital.
Stage 2 planning for the New Windsor/Essex Acute Care Hospital will focus on the development of a Stage 2 Submission to the Ministry of Health, including a “Functional Program,” - a detailed planning document outlining all of the programs to be delivered in the new hospital, the workload and staffing associated with each program, as well as the medical equipment and space requirements – and block schematic plans for the new facility.
To support this work, Windsor Regional Hospital has assembled the following team to form the Project Management Office (PMO).
- Dr. Andrew Petrakos, Director of Clinical Programs Planning
- Jeff Geml, Director of Support Services Planning
- Allison Johnson, Manager of Communications & Community Engagement
- Fatima Lopes-Barros, Administrative Assistant, Corporate Services
“This team has already hit the ground running,” Paul says. “It’s an honour to be working with this dedicated group of health care professionals who put the health care needs of Windsor and Essex community members first each and every day.”
Work on the Functional Program being supported by Agnew Peckham Healthcare Planners who have led similar planning
exercises at some of the largest and most recent new hospitals in Ontario including the Ottawa Hospital,
South Niagara, Trillium Health, Humber River and Oakville-Trafalgar.
Throughout the process, the teams will share updates on the project and look to patients and the community to bring a critically important “patient lens” to this project.
In the coming weeks, Co-chairs from the User Groups will provide updates on the planning process and community members will be invited to a series of virtual town hall meetings to learn more about some of the specific functional program elements that the teams are working on and provide feedback through a series of survey questions.
The goal is to have the Functional Program and block schematic plans ready to submit to the Ministry of Health by Spring, 2023.